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The man who took the most shocking Everest photo of the year is about to break one of mountaineerings stoutest records.
You probably saw the photo of a traffic jam high on Mount Everest. The picture, shot on May 22 from below the summit ridge, quickly went viral, landing on the homepage of The New York Times, t...
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Polish ski daredevil Andrzej Bargiel has announced that he will be attempting to climb and ski down Mt Everest (8848 m) this autumn. Speaking to redbull.com, Bargiel said that he would be attempting the feat without unfastening the skis and without additional oxygen, something which has never been done before.
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20/20 looks back on female accomplishments in climbing and skiing from the past 20 years.
Hilaree Nelson. Photo credit: Nick Kalisz
With interviews from eight successful female mountaineers, climbers, and skiers, viewers receive insight to the struggles and highlights of being a women among traditionally male-d...
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Selfies weren’t in then. Therefore there is no picture of the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary on the summit of Mount Everest. It would have been too complicated to explain the camera to Tenzing Norgay up there at 8,850 meters, Hillary said later. And so the first ascender of Everest photographed his Nepalese companion at t...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
On July 29, Gábor Rakonczay reached the summit of 4,808m Mont Blanc. To many, knocking off the highest peak in Europe would be enough. But for the Hungarian extreme athlete, who canoed solo across the Atlantic in 2012 and reached the S...
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It is an unusual sight for the famous but remote sandstone monolith known as Uluru: dense lines of eager climbers snaking up its reddish-brown surface, headed toward the peak of a rock sacred to the Indigenous Australians who live nearby.
Climbers on Uluru in Central Australia on Wednesday. A prohibition on climbing t...
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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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Mountaineers Simon Messner and Martin Sieberer have made the first ascent of Black Tooth, a 6718m mountain in the Karakorum range in Pakistan.
Simon Messner and Martin Sieberer on the summit of Black Tooth, Karakorum on 26/07/2019
Photo by Simon Messner
On 26 July 2019 Simon Messner and Martin Sieberer complet...
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A blind climber has said he would like a guide dog that can join him on intrepid adventures scaling mountains and glaciers.
Jesse Dufton, 33, who lives in Loughborough, Leicestershire, is looking for a husky, rather than a labrador or retriever, to accompany him on expeditions to extreme environments.
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