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On July 14, 2018 Selva di Val Gardena will host the fifth edition of the Karl Unterkircher Award in memory of the South Tyrolean alpinist who died ten years ago on Nanga Parbat. The alpinists nominated for the 2018 award are Simone Moro, Ali Sadpara and Alex Txikon for the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat, Ines Papert an...
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Dhaulagiri (8167m) remains unclimbed this session. Climbers around the world including Carlos Soria, Christopher Manning, Nicholas Rice, Ryan Kushner, Debasish Biswas and Waldemar Kowalewski had attempted Dhaulagiri this spring. All the expeditions had to be abandoned due to unfavourable weather. Veteran climber Carlos Sori...
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A 27-year-old Sherpa climber scaled Mt Everest in honour of the world’s famous alpinist who lost his life in an accident near Camp II on Mt Everest last year.
Tenjing (Tenji) Sherpa of Gudel, Solukhumbu made it to the roof of the world without using supplementary oxygen, according to Iswari Poudel, Managing Director at Him...
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Mount Everests Hillary Step - a rocky outcrop just below the summit - is now a slope, say climbers who recently returned from the mountain.
The condition of the rock face named after Everests first summiteer Edmund Hillary has been the subject of intense speculation since climbers last year declared it had gone. Others dis...
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Queens of modern climbing - what do we know about them? Women conquer highest peaks along with men, showing strength and astounding willpower. They ascend eight-thousanders and at the same time remain strikingly beautiful. Who are they?
1. Edurne Pasaban (44)
She is a renowned Basque Spanish mountaineer. On May 17, 20...
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Fans often go out of their way to show their favourite footballers how much they mean to them - not many will be able to match climber Dan Zengluobu, though.
The Lionel Messi super-fan posted a photo from the top of Mount Everest (8,848m) as he held an Argentina shirt with the stars name on the back.
His extraordinary e...
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A Nepali woman climber has set a world record by scaling all three highest mountains in a climbing season.
Nima Jangmu Sherpa, 28, made the historic ascent on Mt Kanchenjunga this morning becoming the only woman in the world to climb Nepal’s three highest peaks above 8,000 metres in a single season within 25 days, accordin...
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Mountain climber Nadav Ben Yehuda was rescued from Kangchenjunga mountain top after fellow climbers believed he had frozen to death; after spending entire night deprived of oxygen, food, water in sub-zero
temperatures, he was rescued and evacuated to the hospital by a helicopter.
Despite the more than 20 long hours dur...
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Mt Everest and Mt Lhotse recorded successful summits this morning as the world climbers have continued their final summit pushes on different mountains, according to the expedition organisers.
Lakpa Rita Sherpa of Alpine Ascents International shared that at least 10 foreigners along with nine Sherpa climbers successfully c...
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