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By Jon Rogers (The Sun)
The mummified bodies of three climbers who went missing 59 years ago on Mexico’s highest volcano have been recovered by an army unit.
The three bodies were found on the Pico de Orizaba volcano, the highest peak in Mexico at 5,610 metres (18,405 feet) above sea level located in the states of Ver...
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The video of David Lama and his solo ascent of Lunag Ri, the 6907m mountain on the border between Nepal and Tibet, climbed on 25 October 2018 by the Austrian mountaineer.
Photo credit: www.mountainfilm.org
On 25 October 2018 David Lama completed an extraordinary solo ascent of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. This clim...
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That’s free climbing every pitch, rapping every pitch and jugging every pitch. Incredible stuff!
For real this time: Keita Kurakami has become the fifth person to free the Nose on El Capitan—and incredibly did it without a partner, rope-soloing the entire thing! That’s a first. Last year, the Japanese climber made headli...
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This kid is off the charts! By far the youngest to free the route (out of only six total), and he also climbs 5.14c sport.
While most kids his age were studying for a chemistry test, Spark-noting The Great Gatsby, or sneaking out to a kegger in the woods, 15-year-old Connor Herson, from Emerald Hills, California, was cas...
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Chris Wright (USA/UK) and Graham Zimmerman (USA/NZ) made the first ascent of a long, difficult mixed route on the North Face of Mount MacDonald at Roger’s Pass in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains. They named the new route The Indirect American (WI4+ M7, 1,000 meters).
Tackling a conspicuous, iced corner system, the...
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Climbing alpine style for 3 days, mountaineers Vitus Auer, Sebastian Fuchs and Stefan Larcher have established a new route up Mt. Himjung (7092 m) in Nepal.
Vitus Auer, Sebastian Fuchs and Stefan Larcher have added a new route to Mount Himjung, the 7092m high mountain to the northeast of the Annapura massif in ...
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An incredibly eerie mountain ghost has been caught on film at the top of an Irish mountain.
The rare phenomenon, known as a Brocken Bow, was captured at the summit of Croagh Patrick in County Mayo by climber Matt Loughrey. An extremely rare occurrence, the phantom is sometimes called the Mountain Spectre or Mountain Ghos...
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Ice temperatures inside the worlds highest glacier on the slopes of Mount Everest are warmer than expected and especially vulnerable to future climate change, warn glaciologists.
In 2017 the EverDrill project research team led by Dr. Duncan Quincey from the University of Leeds became the first to successfully drill into ...
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Alpinist Yuichiro Miura, 86, vowed Monday to make every effort to conquer South America’s highest peak, Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, in January.
“I’ll hang on to the last, and it would be perfect if I reach the summit,” Miura told a news conference.
He said he plans to ski down from near the top if he succeeds in cli...
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A climber from Coedpoeth has returned from the Himalayas where he led a team to the summit of a previously unclimbed mountain.
Brian Jackson, director of Expedition Wise Ltd, which is based in Brymbo, led a small team as they trekked 12 days to basecamp before attempting to summit a mountain that has never been climbed b...
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