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Lily Hillary is determined to conquer Mt Everest, just like her grandad did, in 2020.
Its been 65 years since Sir Edmund Hillary became the first person to summit the worlds highest mountain. He died in 2008 at the age of 88 from a heart attack.
Lily Hillary, granddaughter of Sir Edmund Hillary, on Mt Eden in Auckl...
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After 10 years in a dead-end job, James Forrest left to pursue a career as a full-time explorer. He has since become the UK’s “Mountain Man”. Last year he climbed all 446 mountains in England and Wales in just six months. And he has just comp...
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Eleonora Delnevo - the Italian paraclimber paralysed from the waist down after a mountaineering accident in 2015 - has climbed the Zodiac route on El Capitan in Yosemite together with Mauro Gibellini, Diego Pezzoli and Antonio Pozzi.
Eleonora Delnevo climbing the Zodiac route on El Capitan. Photo credit: Diego Pezzoli...
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A three-member rope fixing team successfully reached the summit of Mt Ama Dablam, becoming the first team of the season to stand atop the 6,812 metre-peak in Khumbu region of eastern Nepal, according to the expedition organiser.
Iswari Paudel, Managing Director at Himalayan Guides Nepal Pvt Ltd, said that Pemba Sherpa fr...
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Eight climbers, including a South Korean world-record holder, were killed after a violent snowstorm ripped through their camp in the Himalaya Mountains in Nepal, officials said on Saturday.
The climbers — four South Koreans who were planning to summit the nearly 24,000-foot Mount Gurja, and their four guides — died on Fr...
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Four veteran Austrian alpinists have made the first ascent of an unnamed peak in the Indian Himalaya. Hansjörg Auer, Max Berger, Much Mayr and Guido Unterwurzacher took three days to reach the 6,050-metre summit.
Hansjörg Auer told ExWeb: ...
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At least four Chinese mountaineers have joined the elite 8000er club after they achieved the rare feat of climbing all 14 peaks above 8000 metres this autumn season.
With their recent success on Mt Shishpangma, the 14th highest mountain in the world at 8,027 metres, Zhang Liang, Dong Hong Juan, Luo Jing and Liu Yongzong ...
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What’s the best way to celebrate the landmark of your 91st birthday? For Dr. Bill Weber of Florida, the obvious answer was to break a record and become the oldest known person ever to have climbed to the summit of Devils Tower.
“National Park Magazine had a little squib around February last year that an 87-year-old, the ...
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Three international teams are preparing to scale the world’s second highest peak K2 and killer mountain Nanga Parbat in the upcoming winter season.
A five-member Spanish team and 10-member Russian team will try to be the first mountaineers to summit the K2 in the winter season.
A team of Italian climbers headed by fa...
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