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As the expedition operators and the world climbers are now busy with the final packing and supplying of climbing logistic to the Mt Everest region, an eight-member team of icefall doctors have started fixing a climbing route up to the Camp II from the base camp in the world’s highest peak.
Chairman Ang Dorjee Sherpa of S...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
For the past six days, fans of Himalayan mountaineering have held their breath as Sergey Nilov and Dimitry Golovchenko slowly made their way down the treacherous Southwestern side of 7,710m Mount Jannu.
Sergey Nilov and Dmitry Gol...
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While winter in the Karakorum ended, with the retreat of Alex Txikon and his team to Base Camp on K2, spring in the Himalaya has officially begun.
Typically, the first sign of spring is not a robin or the equinox itself, but the pu...
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For most a skiing holiday might involve a few runs down a gentle slope.
But for this self-defined lover of mountains nothing but a vertical cliff edge would do.
Kilian Jornet, 31, was the first person to ski down Europes largest vertical scarp - Troll Wall in the Rauma Valley, Norway.
Almost a straight drop to th...
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Disenchantment with the material world pushes us to the Himalaya to reconnect with Nature.
Mountaineers have been asked why they climb mountains for as long as big mountains have been climbed. But for Himalayan and other Native peoples around the world, the question is ‘Which deity lives up there?’
Many mountaineers ...
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Former US Marine Corps Sergeant Kirstie Ennis today left for the Mt Everest region aiming to be the first woman with a leg amputated above the knee to stand atop the world’s highest peak in the spring climbing season.
According to Ram Thapa Magar, managing director at HST Adventures, Kirstie along with Christopher Pollac...
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Scientists from the western world have returned to Mt Everest this season to carry out researches in the high Himalaya region.
There would be at least two groups of scientists who will not only be standing atop the roof of the world but also doing different scientific researches in the high Himalayas, multiple sources in...
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This winter’s frigid weather created the perfect conditions for three intrepid ice climbers to make the first-ever ascent of Canada’s tallest waterfall.
At 440 metres tall, Della Falls in Vancouver Island’s Strathcona Provincial Park has been an insurmountable climbing challenge — until late last month.
Over four cold...
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More than 406 climbers have received permits to climb 15 different mountains in the Himalayas this spring season.
According to the Department of Tourism, as of April 4, 180 will be attempting to climb Everest whereas 35 will try to summit Lhotse and 27 will try to summit Nuptse. The climbers will be assisted by nearly 1,...
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Clair Popkin ’07 was working as a cinematographer on the Netflix series “Abstract: The Art of Design,” when he casually mentioned to the director that he had hurt his neck skydiving. Her response surprised him: “You might just be the right kind of crazy to work with us.”
One lunch meeting later, Popkin joined filmmakers...
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