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When Barry Blanchard, Dave Cheesmond and Carl Tobin topped out the first ascent of the East Face of Mt. Fay on the third day of their climb in February 1984, they were worked: What they had expected to be a one day ascent had tripled in length due to a bad storm berating them with wind and snow. Eager to get off in one piec...
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Further disturbing facts are emerging about the circumstances in which the Summit Air LET-410 crash at Lukla claimed the lives of three people.
Recording his statement to the probe team, senior captain Rabindra Bahadur Rokaya reportedly said he failed to immediately correct the wrong move taken by his first officer Sujit...
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Some couples worry about how to manage a week apart on business trips. Emily Harrington and Adrian Ballinger - among the top rock climbers and mountaineers, respectively - worry about how to spend months several thousand miles apart while they both make potentially life-threatening attempts at groundbreaking physical feats ...
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With the start of this year’s main climbing season, record holding climbers are going to attempt Mt Dhaulagiri without using supplemental oxygen in an alpine style, according to the expedition organizer.
Slovakian climber Peter Hámor, 53, and Romanian alpinist Horia Dan Colibasanu, 42, have already reached the base camp ...
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Adam Ondra broadens his repertoire of skills in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics :)
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At least three people were killed when a Summit Air 9N AMH (L410) plane collided with a parked (Manang Air) helicopter while taking off for Ramechhap at Lukla airport this morning.
According to Suman Pandey, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Fish Tail Air, the incident occurred at around 9:10 am at Tenzing-Hillary Airport...
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What will it take to establish a new, highly technical and extremely difficult line on Everest’s northeast face?
Between the two of them, Cory Richards and Esteban “Topo” Mena have stood below the northeast face of Mount Everest six separate times. On all of those prior trips, one couloir, a snowy scar splitting the dark...
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Ash Routen discusses with Reinhold Messner, arguably the greatest high altitude climber of all time, success versus failure, the difference between suffering and fun, and the powerful sense of history that has underpinned his mountaineering philosophy.
As I dial the number, I draw a sharp intake of breath. Im hoping to m...
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The trailer of Everest VR, the film by British mountaineer Jon Griffith that documents an attempt by Sherpa Tenji to climb Mt Everest without supplementary oxygen.
On 30 April 2017 world famous Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck perished on Mt. Nuptse whilst acclimatising for one of the most ambitious mountaineering projects in t...
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