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“Finally, the time we have been waiting for has arrived,” Mike Horn posted yesterday. Together with Fred Roux, and virtually everyone else in Base Camp, Horn set off earlier today toward the summit of the Savage Mountain. “The ascent w...
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Nepal must make training and experience in high altitude climbing mandatory for all climbers on Mount Everest and other high peaks, a government panel has said, following the deadliest climbing season in four years.
Eleven climbers were killed or went missing on the mountain in May - the deadliest season in four years...
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BUCHAREST, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Local mountain rescuers managed to recover, early in the morning on Sunday, the body of Romanias elite climber Torok Zsolt, killed in possible cliff fall in Fagaras Mountains, central Romania.
Photo credit: MASZOL.RO
The evacuation of the deceased climber in the area of Negoiu Peak ...
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Five people, including two children, have been killed after lightning strikes in the Tatra mountains in Poland and neighbouring Slovakia.
Another 100 people were hurt, some seriously with severe burns or head injuries, Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
A witness told local media that the thunde...
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A stonemasonry wall at a shrine near the summit of Mt. Fuji was roped off on Tuesday, a day after a falling rock hit and killed a Russian climber.
The woman has been identified by police as Anna Dubrovina, 29, a resident of Tokyos Shinagawa Ward.
An ambulance was called around 7 a.m. on Monday, August 26, repo...
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Legendary Reinhold Messner visited Nanga Parbat Base Camp during Summer of 2019, where the team of Freeride in the Death Zone Project succeeded to ask him several questions.
The whole interview you will see in the upcoming movie about the third step of Freeride in the Death Zone project this Autumn — the ascendin...
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Switzerlands iconic Matterhorn mountain should be closed to climbers, mountain guides have told a Swiss newspaper in comments that have divided the climbing community.
Is the Matterhorn now too dangerous to climb? Photo: AFP
"The mountain has become “too unstable and therefore too dangerous to be a tourist attrac...
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A Slovenian who was the first person to ski down Everest from the summit in 2000 has died felling a tree, a news agency reported on Tuesday.
Davo Karničar (photo: Tomo Jesenicnik)
Davo Karnicar, 56, died in the accident in his mountainous home region of Jezersko in northern Slovenia, news agency STA said.
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The bodies of two men killed in a suspected cliff fall have been discovered at a popular but remote rock-climbing location in the Flinders Ranges.
Photo credit: Julie Fletcher Photography
Emergency crews were called to the Moonarie climbing area in Wilpena Pound at about 1:15pm on Sunday, when the two Adelaide me...
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“In Germany in the forest, I came across a guy lying on the path and it was quite obvious he was dying. He absolutely had nothing and he was crying and unhappy. I didn’t know what to do because I was not in touch with anybody, as my ph...
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