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by SAM SPILLER
South Africa’s first all-women team to climb Mount Everest will soon be making their way to Nepal, fully dressed and prepared for the challenge that faces them.
Lisa Gering, Alda Waddell and Tumi Mphahlele in their...
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The famous Polish-Russian mountain climber Denis Urubko has decided to end his high-altitude mountain climbing career.
Jelena Laletina, from the website russianclimb.com writes that Urubko’s wife Maria was the first one to be informed of the decision via SMS. The 46-year-old mountaineer, considered to be among t...
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by Angela Benavides
After two days without a signal, Jost Kobusch is back on grid, gaining metre after metre up the West Shoulder. If his indicated position is correct, he is to the left of the original West Ridge route. In a brief ...
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Rescuers said four people helped from Ben Nevis were lucky to be alive.
LOCHABER MRT
They said the tourists who were caught in blizzard conditions had "no ice axes, no crampons and as far as we are aware, no maps". Three of th...
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This article first appeared on http://thehimalayantimes.com. The original can be read here.
by RAJAN POKHREL
A four-member team of Sherpa climbers from Makalu, Sankhuwasabha left for Mt Everest region to attempt to climb the world’s highest peak in just over five days in the winter climbing season.
Halung Dorchi...
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This article first appeared on http://www.planetmountain.com. The original can be read here.
On 9 February 2020 Julien Herry and Yannick Boissenot made what is likely to be the first ski and snowboard descent of the Boeuf - Sara couloir on Aiguille du Peigne in the Mont Blanc massif. Herry reports.
Finding ne...
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This article first appeared on http://sputniknews.com. The original can be read here.
The Nepalese Defense Ministry has invited the Russian military to climb the worlds highest summit, Mount Everest, later this year as part of an international team including China, India and the United States, Nepalese ambassador to Rus...
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This article first appeared on http://nypost.com. The original can be read here.
by Eric Spitznagel
On the same day he thought he’d die, Rick Crandall experienced his most life-affirming moment.
It was Sept. 12, 2007, and the 64-year-old tech exec was climbing Mount Yale, a Colorado mountain summit with ju...
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This article first appeared on http://thehimalayantimes.com. The original can be read here.
With the start of main climbing season, an eight-member team of icefall doctors today left for the Mt Everest base camp from Namche Bazaar to fix a climbing route up to Camp II in the world’s highest peak.
Climbers getting ...
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This article first appeared on http://metro.co.uk. The original can be read here.
by Jeff Parsons
Climbing the tallest mountain in the world is not something any of us are likely to accomplish in our lifetime.
Everest VR is a new series developed specifically for the Oculus Rift (Jonathan Griffith)
Despite ...
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