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Pakistani mountaineer Uzma Yousaf will embark on her journey to scale one of the highest peaks of the world - the 8,047m Broad Peak starting from June 17. Addressing a press conference at F-9 Park, she said she did not have that much training when she climbed 7027m Spantik Peak last year but now she was fully prepared for t...
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Four siblings from a remote valley in Dolakha district stood atop the world’s highest mountain together this season, according to a government official.
Gyanendra Shrestha, a liaison officer at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said that three Sherpa brothers along with their sister scaled Mt Everest beco...
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The Poles have learned a lot from their first attempt to climb the ‘Savage Mountain’ and will apply all their experience and knowledge to the next expedition.
A heroic team of Polish climbers decided to launch a second attempt to climb K2 in winter, Michał Leksinski told the SCMP .
The second expedition would take place ...
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In a break from his ongoing Pole2Pole project, in which Mike Horn is trying to circumnavigate the earth via the polar regions, the South African adventurer has set out to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world. Horn arrived at Base Camp on June 6 and is planning to climb the Diamir face. Success on Nang...
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Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell crushed their own previous Nose speed record of 2:10:15, set on May 30, after sending El Capitan’s iconic route in 2 hours 1 minute 50 seconds. Yeah, that’s right. 3,000 vertical feet in 2:01:50. They broke their previous record by 9 minutes 25 seconds. How’s that for an ego destroyer? You sh...
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The veteran French mountaineer Marc Batard, 66 years, has enlisted Muhammad Ali Sadpara, the famous Pakistani mountaineer along with Pasang Nuru Sherpa of Nepal to undertake a five-year mountaineering program, “Beyond Mount Everest”.
Under the project, the trio plan to scale Nanga Parbat in 2019 and K-2 in 2021, while Moun...
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Japanese climber Akira Oyabe and his expedition have arrived in Pakistan. The team has spent the last two years preparing to climb K2, the second highest peak in the world.
Oyabe has faced the 8,611m peak twice before. In 2009, strong winds forced him to turn back at 7,900m. In 2013, heavy snowfall stopped his progress.
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Reading and climbing, climbing and reading. What dyou like more? You dont have to choose, at least today. Heres part two of most popular climbing books. Look, read, compare and share your opinion.
1. The Crystal Horizon: Everest-The First Solo Ascent by Reinhold Messner (1998)
On August 20, 1980, Reinhold Mesner reach...
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For Queensland climber Alyssa Azar, climbing the highest mountain in the world was apparently such a breeze, she did it twice.
The 21-year-old became the youngest Australian to reach the summit of Everest in 2016 when she was 19, and is now returning home after becoming the youngest woman ever to climb both the north and s...
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