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The climber fell 80 feet from a climb in North Carolina
Free soloing 5.12 was common for Austin Howell. Over the last six years the 31-year-old Lombard, Illinois, resident spent more time climbing without a rope than with one.
“Climbing, to me, has been a path towards peace,” he wrote on his website. “Soloing isn’t ju...
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Over nearly three decades, Apa Sherpa has witnessed the effects of a warming climate and an overcrowded peak.
I didn’t want to be a climber. My dream since I was young was to become a doctor.But I had to make a choice between my dream and my family. I chose my family.
APA SHERPA as told to EMILY ATKIN
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Climber who captured viral image of Mount Everest traffic is on a quest to conquer the worlds 14 highest peaks in record-breaking time.
The project is about showing whats possible within human endurance.
Nirmal Purja, better known as Nims, is on a mission to climb all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters in 7 months. Imag...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Polish duo Jarosław Gawrysiak and Wojtek Flaczyński reached the summit of Nanda Devi East. They left from Camp 3 at 6,800m, after a week-long summit push. At last word, the climbers had descended to 7,313m. Conditions were initially g...
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Summit of Mont Blanc on June 26, 2019 at the end of the afternoon...
With the exceptional heat wave and the absence of wind, many paragliders have been able to land on... the summit of Mont Blanc (4808 M-Haute Savoie-France). They all took off 2000 m lower before they raised thanks to the exceptional ancestries!
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Rock climber Alex Honnold meticulously chalked his hands before pulling himself up to the thin ledge inside the climate-controlled climbing gym. He dangled by his finger tips for a bit and then fell back to the bouncy mat.
Honnold at VauxWall East climbing centre in London. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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A near-death experience led an adventurous mountain climber to find a career in nursing.
Ian Overton, 34, attempted to summit Nanga Parbat a couple of years ago, but fell ill along the way. Nanga Parbat is the 9th tallest mountain in the world and is nicknamed, "The Killer Mountain."
"The summit-to-kill ratio...
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Everest had a starring role in Shanghai International Film Festival recently and not because of recent parallels with that city’s traffic jams. Blockbuster action hero Wu Jing and other members of the cast introduced The Climbers, an upcoming film about how the “other” side of Everest was conquered.
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Seven bodies from a group of eight missing climbers have been recovered in the Himalayas, officials have said. The mountaineers, believed to include four Brits, two Americans, one Australian and an Indian liaison officer, vanished in the Nanda Devi region on May 26 following an avalanche.
Rescue teams will continue to se...
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