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Spanish brothers and mountaineers Iker and Eneko Pou put up their second first ascent in Patagonia on January 9. Haizea, 5.12c, is the new 550-meter splitter line in the Aguja de la S in the Fitz Roy range of Patagonia. The line was so pristine, that the brothers didn’t place any fixed gear, save for a single piton which th...
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Ten days after strangling a mountain lion to death in self-defense, Travis Kauffman, 31, made his first public appearance in good spirits, wearing the same jacket from the day of the incident at a limited access press conference Thursday.
Kauffman was attacked by a juvenile mountain lion while trail running in the Horset...
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Ordinary visitors will be able to go to areas around Rongpo monastery, but only those with climbing permits can go to the base camp and higher.
The ‘indefinite’ move was confirmed after reports circulated online that the popular area had been permanently shut down.
The Mount Everest base camp in Tibet will be closed t...
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They did it! Watch the video “Annapurna, Thank You for Being Alive” (with English subtitles), which reflects the realities of the expedition to climb and ski Himalayas during Autumn, 2018.
They call it “Ciller Mountain”, “Much-Feared” — Annapurna has a lot of names. All thanks to the bad reputation earned over the past dec...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
The Russian/Kazakh/Kyrgyz team – aka the Eastern team — returned to K2 Base Camp after fixing ropes up to the Black Pyramid, at approximately 7,000m. This super-steep section of mixed terrain is among the most relevant difficulties on the Abr...
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On November 30, a high-court order overturned an informal ban on women climbing Agasthyakoodam, a sacred Indian peak.
On January 15, Dhanya Sanal became the first woman to summit Agasthyakoodam, a 1,868-meter peak in the Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary of the Western Ghats range and the second highest mountain in Kerala, India...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Normal people, smart people, wouldn’t even go outside in weather like this — Cory Richards
Simone Moro gave up on Manaslu recently, and other 8,000’er hopefuls continue to struggle with deep snow and high winds, but climbing in the winter ...
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Two years ago, on a flight to New Zealand, I watched the film Everest, in which adventurers get stuck on the mountain in a blizzard. I immediately knew I had to start climbing. It’s not the reaction most people have to that film, because almost everyone dies; maybe I just needed more adventure in my life. But six months lat...
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Andy Nisbet, one of Scotland’s most revered mountaineers, has been named as one of the two men who died during a climb on Ben Hope in Sutherland earlier this week.
Leading Scottish climbers paid tribute to Nisbet, 65, and his climbing partner Steve Perry, 47, after police confirmed rescue teams had recovered both men’s b...
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