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Renowned South Korean climber Sung-Taek Hong, 52, has left for the Mt Everest region to make his sixth attempt to climb the Lhotse South Face, one of the toughest climbs in the world, this season.
According to Wangchu Sherpa, Managing Director at Trekking Camp Nepal, Hong will be leading a six-member international team i...
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The trailer of Everest VR, the film by British mountaineer Jon Griffith that documents an attempt by Sherpa Tenji to climb Mt Everest without supplementary oxygen.
On 30 April 2017 world famous Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck perished on Mt. Nuptse whilst acclimatising for one of the most ambitious mountaineering projects in t...
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There’s a nascent pink aura around the cherry blossom trees in Kansai. Wes Lang is dressed in a green shell jacket with a matching green zipper-pull hanging down just below his sternum, parallel with the drawstrings of the jacket hood. From an inner layer, which looks to be a blue fleece jacket, a black T-shirt peeks throug...
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In a bid to keep the world’s highest mountain clean, Nepali stakeholders are all set to jointly launch a massive cleaning drive on Mt Everest this spring season.
The joint initiative planned by government and non-government agencies aims to collect bodies and the rubbish left behind by the climbers from the South Col (Ca...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Polish climbing ace Adam Bielecki is leaving this weekend for another crack at the daunting Northwest Face of Annapurna. He will follow the same route, in the same style and with the same climbing mate, Felix Berg. Although frazzled by...
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Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said today, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world’s tallest mountain has shrunk. Four government surveyors will depart on Wednesday for Everest, which lies on the Himalayan range straddling the border...
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Adam Ondra broadens his repertoire of skills in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics :)
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With the start of this year’s main climbing season, record holding climbers are going to attempt Mt Dhaulagiri without using supplemental oxygen in an alpine style, according to the expedition organizer.
Slovakian climber Peter Hámor, 53, and Romanian alpinist Horia Dan Colibasanu, 42, have already reached the base camp ...
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According to the Austrian newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, Austrian alpinists David Lama and Hansjörg Auer are reported missing after an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains in Canada.
Austrian alpinists David Lama and Hansjörg Auer are feared missing after an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains. The news, still awaiting officia...
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Further disturbing facts are emerging about the circumstances in which the Summit Air LET-410 crash at Lukla claimed the lives of three people.
Recording his statement to the probe team, senior captain Rabindra Bahadur Rokaya reportedly said he failed to immediately correct the wrong move taken by his first officer Sujit...
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