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Heavy snow has led Lonnie Dupre to quit his fourth attempt to solo Mount Hunter in winter. Over 20 metres of snow have plastered the Alaska Range, with more to come.
Lonnie Dupre at Base Camp. Photo credit: Lonnie Dupre
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While harsh weather conditions at high altitudes are making it difficult for three foreign expedition teams, which are attempting to scale the world’s second highest peak K2, the mountaineers are determined to achieve their goals.
The two K2 expedition teams are now teaming up to increase the chance of their success.
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As the mountaineering fraternity prepares for the most popular mountain climbing season, i.e. spring season, Sherpa climbers who guide their foreign clients to the top of the mountains including Mt Everest have urged the concerned stakeholders to ensure social security for them.
This undated image shows Mingma Tenjing...
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China will cut the number of climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest from the north by a third this year as part of plans for a major clean-up on the worlds highest peak.
The total number of climbers attempting to reach the summit of the worlds highest peak at 8,850 metres will be limited to less than 300, and the cli...
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Manaslu
Italian alpinist Simone Moro together with Pemba Gyalje Sherpa, aiming to summit Manaslu this winter via normal route without supplemental oxygen in alpine style, are back to the Base Camp of Manaslu on 20th January, 2019 from 6400m. They encountered with difficulties of passing crevasses after having set up thei...
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The award-winning documentary chronicling Alex Honnold’s attempt to free solo El Capitan has been nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards.
Last week, I met a man in the Puerto Rican jungle who’d been living without Internet or television for years, and who spoke almost no English. Still, when I ...
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The video of the first ascent of Sagzahn-Verschneidung, a mixed climb established by David Lama and Peter Mühlburger in 2018 up Mt. Sagwand in Austria’s Valsertal.
In February 2018 the Austrian alpinists David Lama and Peter Mühlburger ventured into "one of the coldest holes in Tyrol", the small Valsertal valley...
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Not a great time for Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard on Nanga Parbat: apart from the poor weather, they’ve lost their two Pakistani climbing partners, Karim Hayat and Ramat Ullah Baig, who decided to abandon the expedition. Nardi and Ballard ar...
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Normal people, smart people, wouldn’t even go outside in weather like this — Cory Richards
Simone Moro gave up on Manaslu recently, and other 8,000’er hopefuls continue to struggle with deep snow and high winds, but climbing in the winter ...
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On November 30, a high-court order overturned an informal ban on women climbing Agasthyakoodam, a sacred Indian peak.
On January 15, Dhanya Sanal became the first woman to summit Agasthyakoodam, a 1,868-meter peak in the Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary of the Western Ghats range and the second highest mountain in Kerala, India...
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