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Are you curious about what Olympic climbing will look like in 2020? We are, too. Heres what you should know before it all begins.
In 2016, the International Olympic Committee voted to include climbing in the 2020 Olympics. But when it announced that it would combine the three main forms of competitive climbing—speed, bou...
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Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said today, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world’s tallest mountain has shrunk. Four government surveyors will depart on Wednesday for Everest, which lies on the Himalayan range straddling the border...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Polish climbing ace Adam Bielecki is leaving this weekend for another crack at the daunting Northwest Face of Annapurna. He will follow the same route, in the same style and with the same climbing mate, Felix Berg. Although frazzled by...
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In a bid to keep the world’s highest mountain clean, Nepali stakeholders are all set to jointly launch a massive cleaning drive on Mt Everest this spring season.
The joint initiative planned by government and non-government agencies aims to collect bodies and the rubbish left behind by the climbers from the South Col (Ca...
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There’s a nascent pink aura around the cherry blossom trees in Kansai. Wes Lang is dressed in a green shell jacket with a matching green zipper-pull hanging down just below his sternum, parallel with the drawstrings of the jacket hood. From an inner layer, which looks to be a blue fleece jacket, a black T-shirt peeks throug...
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On a cold, gray afternoon, a man reaches a mountaintop and dissolves in jubilation, as if a boy, not 55, those bright, blue eyes twinkling on a hard-lined face. He’s giggling and congratulating his canine companion: “That’s my girl! That’s my girl, Chaela!”
The black lab’s tail wags, and her pink tongue hangs as “Cap” Da...
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Every year in the spring, hundreds of aspiring Everest climbers from all over the world arrive in Nepal, hoping to conquer the mountain.
In the spring of 2010, Pemba Gelje Sherpa crossed the dreaded Khumbu Icefall 14 times. The Icefall is the most treacherous part of the Khumbu glacier, fast-moving and ridden with crevas...
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More than 406 climbers have received permits to climb 15 different mountains in the Himalayas this spring season.
According to the Department of Tourism, as of April 4, 180 will be attempting to climb Everest whereas 35 will try to summit Lhotse and 27 will try to summit Nuptse. The climbers will be assisted by nearly 1,...
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Renowned South Korean climber Sung-Taek Hong, 52, has left for the Mt Everest region to make his sixth attempt to climb the Lhotse South Face, one of the toughest climbs in the world, this season.
According to Wangchu Sherpa, Managing Director at Trekking Camp Nepal, Hong will be leading a six-member international team i...
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