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This achievement adds to his collection of world records and he has another challenge in mind.
Because climbing the highest peaks on seven continents just wasnt enough for Colin OBrady, he had to go and climb to the highest points in all 50 states, didnt he?
Yes, he did, and OBrady finished at the top of Mount Hood ...
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It has been revealed that two mountaineers were taken to the world’s highest mountain for an expedition by producing a ‘fake climbing permit’ in the last spring season.
According to the Department of Tourism (DoT), renowned Australian climber Ian James Hibbert, 67, and Chinese mountaineer Xu Zhong Zhou, 62, had never obt...
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Two Sherpa climbers successfully scaled Mt Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe.
According to Mingma David Sherpa, he along with Chhang Dawa Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks, stood atop the 5,642-metre peak. “We reached the summit point at around 6:40 am and we are now on the way back to base camp,” Sherpa said.
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With nearly 200 foreign climbers along with their support staff preparing to scale the world’s eighth highest peak, at least six climbers including four rope-fixing Sherpas successfully stood atop Mt Manaslu (8,163 m) this afternoon becoming the first team to climb the mountain in the autumn season.
Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, D...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Herbert Hellmuth of Germany and Sergey Baranov of Russia will try to become the first expedition to completely ski Dhaulagiri — at 8,167m, the seventh tallest mountain in the world.
In 2009, Czech David Fojtik skied most but not all of Dha...
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YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS!!!
On 26 September 1988 French mountaineer and paraglider pilot Jean-Marc Boivin made the first paraglider descent of Mount Everest. He had climbed the mountain via the south-east ridge.
Here’s this historic video:
Boivin died from injuries incurred after BASE jumping off Angel Falls in...
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More than 60 climbers successfully climbed the world’s eighth highest peak in western Nepal on Friday morning, according to expedition organisers.
The world climbers, including Kami Rita Sherpa who set world record scaling Mt Everest 22 times, scaled Mt Manaslu, Mingma Sherpa Managing Director at Seven Summit Treks, said...
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Chinese mountaineer Luo Jing reached the top of the 8027m Shishapangma on Saturday, finishing the last of the 14 eight-thousanders and becoming Chinas first female climber for the accomplishment.
"I am a single mother and I want to influence other females, mothers particularly. I want to make them believe that they can d...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Four veteran Austrian alpinists have made the first ascent of an unnamed peak in the Indian Himalaya. Hansjörg Auer, Max Berger, Much Mayr and Guido Unterwurzacher took three days to reach the 6,050-metre summit.
Hansjörg Auer told ExWeb: ...
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Eleonora Delnevo - the Italian paraclimber paralysed from the waist down after a mountaineering accident in 2015 - has climbed the Zodiac route on El Capitan in Yosemite together with Mauro Gibellini, Diego Pezzoli and Antonio Pozzi.
Eleonora Delnevo climbing the Zodiac route on El Capitan. Photo credit: Diego Pezzoli...
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