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Two mountaineers are trying to summit all 82 4,000 meter (13,123 foot) peaks in the Alps in 100 days, in odrer to raise awareness about climate change.
Climbers Peter Sandahl (Sweden) and Danny Uhlmann (United States), have summited 35 4,000 m (13,123 ft) peaks since May 5, when Climb for Climate began. The duo has been cl...
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Its Friday and time for a good movie! Right? So what have we got here - part four of movies about climbing, mountains, mountain adventures, extreme sports and natural extreme situations. We hope youll like all of them. Lets start!
1. Poorna (2017)
An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history ...
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A plaque honouring the Limerick climber Ger McDonnell, who died on K2 a decade ago, has been erected at the mountain’s base camp.
The memorial was placed by a Donegal man who hopes to become the second Irish man to reach the summit: Jason Black.
The Irish Red Cross ambassador has just reached K2 base camp in Pakistan ahea...
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The Old Man of Hoy in Scotland was climbed recently by eight-year-old Edward Mills. In becoming the youngest person to climb the iconic sea stack he importantly raised nearly €30,000 for Climbers Against Cancer.
One of Great Britain’s most famous rock climbs, the Old Man of Hoy on the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland, w...
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Austrian mountaineer Hansjörg Auer has begun his solo climb of 7,181m Lupghar Sar West. At last word, he had headed up to 5,200m to acclimatize. He reported unstable weather, with fresh snow every day and winds ripping off the Lupghar Sar summits.
Lupghar Sar West is not a common climber’s objective — there has been no rec...
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She is currently a week into her climb up K2.
Lisa Thompson might be a world-renowned mountaineer today, but some of her first memories involve spending long days outside exploring the woods and cornfields in her home state of Illinois. It wasnt until she moved to Seattle in 2009 in her late 30s that she found an irrevocab...
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Mike Horn has abandoned on Nanga Parbat.
The South African adventurer had been taking a break from his Pole2Pole project, a circumnavigation of the world via the polar regions, to climb Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. He arrived at Base Camp in early June, but for almost two weeks, southwest winds hammered the upper slopes, brin...
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Akira Oyabe’s North Japan K2 Expedition opened the Karakoram season earlier this month when they started fixing ropes for their attempt on K2. ExWeb takes a broad look at all the teams currently in the Karakoram, and what to expect this year.
The Savage Mountain
Although the second highest peak in the world, K2 (8,611m)...
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The Supreme Court vacated the government’s decision to bar double amputee and visually impaired persons from climbing mountains, including Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak.
Issuing a final verdict on a writ petition filed by Madhav Prasad Chamlagain, a constitutional bench of five justices led by Chief Justice Deepak R...
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