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Mont Blanc is to impose "permanent restrictions" on climbing Western Europes highest mountain via its busiest route in an attempt to reduce death and bottlenecks on the perilous final ascent.
Starting next summer, the number of hikers allowed to tackle the Royal Route to the mountain’s 15,780ft peak, used by three quarte...
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American ski mountaineers Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison are currently on the lower slopes of Everest preparing to ski the Lhotse Couloir: the so-called Dream Line.
Photo credit: Nick Kalisz (https://www.outsideonline.com)
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In an unique adventure sports initiative, a group of blind and able-bodied climbers from India and Israel have scaled Africas tallest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, an organiser said here on Monday.
The climb between September 8-14 was billed as Indias first Inclusive Climb. It included two blind climbers from India ...
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Two American climbers set a world record becoming the first people to make a successful ski descent from the summit of the world’s fourth highest mountain in the autumn climbing season.
Renowned ski mountaineers — James White Morrison and Hilaree Nelson — made a ski descent from the top of Mt Lhotse after reaching the su...
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“It’s over – the mountain is impossible to deal with,” reported Carlos Soria from Dhaulagiri BC on Monday.
“The Polish team is leaving today; Kari Kobler’s will follow tomorrow,” he added. “A Japanese climber and three Sherpas are retreati...
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"Three seconds earlier we would all certainly have been killed. I have never come so close to losing my son," Sir Richard said.
Sir Richard Branson was "seconds away from certain death" after nearly being caught in a rockfall on Mont Blanc.
The billionaire businessman, 68, was climbing with his son Sam when rocks "the...
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At least 120 foreign climbers along with more than 100 climbing Sherpas successfully scaled the world’s eighth highest peak in western Nepal in the autumn climbing season, according to expedition organisers.
Chang Dawa Sherpa, Expeditions director at Seven Summit Treks shared that at least 69 climbers including 38 foreig...
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Alpinists Vitaliy Lazo and Anton Pugovkin made a difficult decision to cancel freeride from Annapurna project due to complex avalanche situation.
“There are a lot of snow droppings on the slope, — report alpinists. — Avalanches are constant, and the probability get under is very high with no chances to escape aft...
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A group of amputee-athletes successfully summited Cotopaxi, a 19,347-foot tall, heavily glaciated stratovolcano thats also Ecuadors second highest mountain.
Its one of the most famous — and challenging — peaks in the South American climbing circuit.
The expedition is part of the Range of Motion Project (ROM...
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Three international teams are preparing to scale the world’s second highest peak K2 and killer mountain Nanga Parbat in the upcoming winter season.
A five-member Spanish team and 10-member Russian team will try to be the first mountaineers to summit the K2 in the winter season.
A team of Italian climbers headed by fa...
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