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Narender Yadav (25), who allegedly faked Mt Everest summit in 2016 is all set to receive prestigious Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award, the highest adventure sports honor of India.  Alleged Fake Summit Picture of Narender Yadav. Source: Narender Yadav/Facebook. This article first appeared on http://everesttoday.blog ...
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This article first appeared on http://edition.cnn.com. The original can be read here. text by Stacey Lastoe, CNN (CNN) — Viridiana Álvarez Chávez was 28 when she first started exercising. She was 36 when she broke the Guinness World Record for the fastest ascent of the top three highest mountains with supplementary ox...
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This article first appeared on http://www.thelocal.it The original can be read here. On August 20th 1980 Messner reached the summit of the world’s highest peak, 8,848 metres above sea level.  He did it having taken just 60 kilograms of equipment with him - as opposed to the 8 tonnes that were normal at the time - and ...
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This article first appeared on http://www.planetmountain.com. The original can be read here. The video by Bertrand Delpierres illustrating the retreat of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Mont Blanc massif.  On the glacier Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc Photo by Planetmountain Mer de Glace, the largest glacier in the ...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here. by Angela Benavides While international teams are unlikely to visit Pakistan this summer, an all-Pakistani combo led by Sa’ad Mohamed is on its way to climb 7,070m Rakhiot Peak, within the Nanga Parbat massif.  The team positio...
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This article first appeared on http://www.climbing.com. The original can be read here. by KEVIN CORRIGAN When the trailer for Gripped, an upcoming climbing-theme action movie, was released in 2018, we speculated that it could be the next Vertical Limit. Three years later, the film has secured distribution and announce...
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This article first appeared on http://nypost.com The original can be read here.  by Brooke Kato A toddler might have become the youngest person to reach the summit of Piz Badile, a 10,000-foot mountain. His reward? Haribo candy.  Jackson Houlding on Piz Badile.Leo Houlding / SWNS Jackson Houlding, the 3-year...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here. by Angela Benavides With international flights scheduled to begin on August 17, Nepal authorities have also granted trekking and expedition agencies permission to operate. Local companies are ready to outfit expeditions to Everest, ...
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Source: National Geographic What is this? National Geographic’s second augmented-reality experience on Instagram allows viewers to dress as Everest climbers and travel up the mountain with the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Everest Expedition that climbed the mountain last year to install the highest weat...
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