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Katie Sarah has hit 50, but the only way youll find her settling in for a night of Netflix at home is to while away the hours of boredom on her cardio machine.
She is currently in intensive training for her next penultimate challenge in an attempt to reach a milestone that has been 12 years in the making.
The adrenali...
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An exclusive look at Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison’s historic first descent of Lhotse.
Photography by Nick Kalisz and Dutch Simpson.
Hilaree Nelson watches Jim Morrison buckle his ski boots on the summit of Lhotse as they prep for their first descent. Photo credit: Nick Kalisz
Above Everest Base Camp, look...
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Alexander Gukov shares his experience of surviving alone for a week at 6200 m on Latok I (7145m) after his partner Sergey Glazunov fell to his death on the descent with most of their equipment.
[This story first appeared in Alpinist 64, which is now available on newsstands and in our online store. The issue also features...
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This article first appeared on Explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Winter K2 has been attempted four times by Polish and Russian climbers. None of them has reached beyond 7,600m of its 8,611m. A Russian/Kazakh/Kyrgyz combo is currently struggling to raise the money to have a go at this last great Himalayan p...
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The expedition operators in Nepal might have been so shocked that they dropped their pencils.
In the “New Regulations for Foreign Expeditions 2019” in Tibet (available to me) it says under point 6: “In order to ensure the healthy and orderly development of mountaineering and minimize the occurrence of mountaineering acci...
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Alpinist Yuichiro Miura, 86, vowed Monday to make every effort to conquer South America’s highest peak, Mount Aconcagua in Argentina, in January.
“I’ll hang on to the last, and it would be perfect if I reach the summit,” Miura told a news conference.
He said he plans to ski down from near the top if he succeeds in cli...
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Ice temperatures inside the worlds highest glacier on the slopes of Mount Everest are warmer than expected and especially vulnerable to future climate change, warn glaciologists.
In 2017 the EverDrill project research team led by Dr. Duncan Quincey from the University of Leeds became the first to successfully drill into ...
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A short film by Paolo Sartori documenting the repeat of Odyssee on the North Face of the Eiger by Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher in August 2018.
Photo credit: Jacopo Larcher, Barbara Zangerl
Last August after four days of climbing Barbara Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher managed to repeat Odyssee, the difficult ro...
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An incredibly eerie mountain ghost has been caught on film at the top of an Irish mountain.
The rare phenomenon, known as a Brocken Bow, was captured at the summit of Croagh Patrick in County Mayo by climber Matt Loughrey. An extremely rare occurrence, the phantom is sometimes called the Mountain Spectre or Mountain Ghos...
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