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A last-ditch attempt to rescue one of Europes most accomplished mountaineers is underway in Tibet.
Boyan Petrov, has been missing for over a week on the Tibetan peak of Shishapangma, the world’s 14th highest mountain at 8027 meters.
Petrov was part of a group of ten climbers composed of 1 Hungarian, 5 Italians, and 4 Nepa...
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Blog by Shailesh Pokharel Nepal Trekking Routes Treks
Nepal is known to be the famous tourist spot in the world & none of the Nepal trips will get completed without participating in trekking activity. Nepal provides some of the world-class trekking facilities & opportunities for the people present all over the world. The langtang valley trek is highly famous for trekking activ...
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A rope-fixing team of climbing Sherpas reached the summit of Mt Everest this afternoon becoming the season’s first team to scale the world’s highest peak from Nepal side, according to the expedition organiser.
According to Iswari Paudel, Managing Director at Himalayan Guides Nepal (HGN) Pvt Ltd, climbing Sherpas include Pa...
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Kim Hong-bin, a South Korean climber, who lost all of his fingers to frostbite while scaling Mt Denali of North America in 1991, today successfully stood atop the world’s tenth highest mountain in Nepal, according to the expedition organiser.
Mingma Sherpa, Company Director at Seven Summit Treks, said that Kim Hong-bin, ...
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Late on my fourth day hiking the 102-mile Arctic Circle Trail in western Greenland, I encountered smoke rising from the ground. White tendrils, sometimes columns, rose in all directions from charred soil and wisped out from an 800-foot-tall hummocky, granitic hillside to my left. To my right was the 14-mile-long, string-bea...
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Isabella de la Houssaye raised her five children on adventure. Then came a brutal diagnosis, and a burning desire for a final journey with each one.
De la Houssaye in January, making her way to Camp 1 on Aconcagua
ACONCAGUA PROVINCIAL PARK, Argentina — Isabella de la Houssaye and her daughter, Bella, struggled to...
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A few years ago, Kami Rita Sherpa, a veteran climber and guide, met with a gruesome sight at Mount Everest Base Camp. Human bones poked from the ground, smooth and ice-crusted.
About 300 climbers have died trying to summit Mount Everest in the last six decades, and more than 100 bodies may be lying on the mountain.Cre...
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This spring’s Himalayan season has put mountaineering back on mainstream media’s radar, but as usual, for all the wrong reasons. The NYT, Washington Post, CNN, the BBC and The Guardian have all decried the current state of Mount Everest, in the wake of 11 deaths and one viral photo.
Climbers approach the summit of Eve...
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Blog by Mountain Planet
MountainPlanet.com keeps growing next to the professional Alpine Community by improving the reliability of information about adventure guides in its database. Kyrgyzstan Mountain Guides Association became one of Mountain Planets’ partners. Starting from this year, it is a recognized member of the International Association o...
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Earlier this spring, 58 people reportedly summited Kangchenjunga. (Some say the tally is actually 68.) While not a record, this is still a world away from the peak’s lonely history. Tagged as difficult, isolated and “only” the third tallest mountain on Earth, Kangchenjunga is not even a favorite among the 8000’ers.
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