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At least 11 climbers successfully scaled Mt Aconcagua (6,962 m), the highest peak in South America.
According to Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, Managing Director at Elite Himalayan Adventures, he along with co-founder Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja, climber Narbin Magar and actor Deeya Pun among others scaled the highest mountain in both the...
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The video of the ascent of the stunning ridge up Choktoi Ri 6166m in Pakistan’s Karakorum, first climbed in summer 2018 by Fabian Buhl and Alexander Huber. The 2200m route is called The Big Easy.
In summer 2018 Fabian Buhl and Alexander Huber travelled to the Choktoi valley in the Karakorum to climb Choktoi Ri, the 6166m...
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Lonnie Dupre, an arctic explorer from Minnesota, is heading North. At the beginning of January he will embark on a 19-day expedition to try to complete the first-ever solo winter ascent of Begguya (Mt. Hunter), Alaska.
Dupre’s camp at 16,300 feet on the the West Buttress, Denali, Alaska, in January 2015, when he made...
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Russia’s Maria Tolokonina and Nikolai Kuzovlev became the first ever UIAA Ice Climbing World Combined Champions on 16 December winning the inaugural edition of the competition which ranks athletes based on their performances in both the speed and lead disciplines. The event – held from 14-16 December – attracted 27 athlete...
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Poland’s Paweł Dunaj is preparing to take part in an expedition led by a Spanish climber to scale K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.
The team, led by Spains Alex Txikon, is due to leave for Islamabad in Pakistan on January 2, with plans to set up base camp at Baltoro Glacier 10 days later.
The north side of K...
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A climber from Coedpoeth has returned from the Himalayas where he led a team to the summit of a previously unclimbed mountain.
Brian Jackson, director of Expedition Wise Ltd, which is based in Brymbo, led a small team as they trekked 12 days to basecamp before attempting to summit a mountain that has never been climbed b...
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Gazing up from base camp in 2015, David Lama and Conrad Anker repeatedly contemplated if that bare, rocky protrusion near the top of Lunag Ri could possibly be the true summit. It looked too improbable, too perfect.
But what if it was?
They failed to find out in 2015, turning around at 300 meters shy of the 6,895-mete...
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Kris Machnick is on her way to climb eight routes by her 80th birthday in a few months for fundraising.
“I am a 79-year-old badass climber doing eight major ice and rock routes in different mountain ranges, raising $100,000 for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease research, by end of winter 2019 when I will be 80,” said M...
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The bodies of Kristinn Runarsson and Thorsteinn Gudjonsson from Iceland were found at the bottom of a glacier by an American climber three decades after their doomed expedition.
The Scottish mountaineer Steve Aisthorpe spent weeks looking for the pair after they went missing during an October 1988 expedition to climb Pum...
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