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While harsh weather conditions at high altitudes are making it difficult for three foreign expedition teams, which are attempting to scale the world’s second highest peak K2, the mountaineers are determined to achieve their goals.
The two K2 expedition teams are now teaming up to increase the chance of their success.
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As the mountaineering fraternity prepares for the most popular mountain climbing season, i.e. spring season, Sherpa climbers who guide their foreign clients to the top of the mountains including Mt Everest have urged the concerned stakeholders to ensure social security for them.
This undated image shows Mingma Tenjing...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Heavy snow has led Lonnie Dupre to quit his fourth attempt to solo Mount Hunter in winter. Over 20 metres of snow have plastered the Alaska Range, with more to come.
Lonnie Dupre at Base Camp. Photo credit: Lonnie Dupre
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Bengali mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta became the youngest mountaineer in the world to complete both the Seven Summits and the Seven Volcanic Summits. Satyarup achieved this feat at the age of 35 years 262 days when he scaled Mt. Sidley (4285m) in Antarctica on 16th January, 2019. He has surpassed Australian mountaineer Dan...
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The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday rescued a lost climber off Mount Hood.
The climber, a 68-year-old man, left for a climb this morning and got caught in whiteout conditions and started to panic, a sheriff’s office spokesperson says.
Rescue crews load up into snowcat at Timberline Lodge - Clackamas C...
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Directed by Stéven Le Hyaric / Alexandra Vives Starring : Stéven Le Hyaric, Ngawang Dawa Sherpa, Pehuen Grotti Images : Pehuen Grotti / Stéven Le Hyaric
Photo credit: Pehuen Grotti
The Great Himalaya Trail and its 90,000 meters of positive altitude difference: "I wanted to cross Nepal by one of its highest a...
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by Damien Gildea
On December 27, Colin O’Brady wrote triumphantly on Instagram:
“The wooden post in the background of this picture marks the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, where Antarctica’s land mass ends and the sea ice begins. As I pull...
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Simone Moro, the winter maestro from Italy, has returned to the world’s eighth highest mountain to attempt to climb the 8,163-metre peak in the winter season.
Simone, who made a failed winter attempt on Mt Manaslu in February 2015, will attempt to climb the mountain this season without using supplemental oxygen. “Simone ...
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Alex Txikon’s and Vassily Pivtsov’s teams have joined forces, thereby strengthening their chances of solving the so-called final problem of the winter 8000’ers: the first ascent of K2 at this time of year. They have agreed to share resources ...
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