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A Chinese climber, who lost both his legs to frostbite in 1975 during his first attempt to reach the summit of Mt Everest, has scripted a history on the roof of the world becoming the first double amputee climber to stand atop the world’s highest peak from Nepal side this morning.
According to Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, Managin...
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Kim Hong-bin, a South Korean climber, who lost all of his fingers to frostbite while scaling Mt Denali of North America in 1991, today successfully stood atop the world’s tenth highest mountain in Nepal, according to the expedition organiser.
Mingma Sherpa, Company Director at Seven Summit Treks, said that Kim Hong-bin, ...
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A rope-fixing team of climbing Sherpas reached the summit of Mt Everest this afternoon becoming the season’s first team to scale the world’s highest peak from Nepal side, according to the expedition organiser.
According to Iswari Paudel, Managing Director at Himalayan Guides Nepal (HGN) Pvt Ltd, climbing Sherpas include Pa...
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A last-ditch attempt to rescue one of Europes most accomplished mountaineers is underway in Tibet.
Boyan Petrov, has been missing for over a week on the Tibetan peak of Shishapangma, the world’s 14th highest mountain at 8027 meters.
Petrov was part of a group of ten climbers composed of 1 Hungarian, 5 Italians, and 4 Nepa...
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NASA’s widely publicized twin study—which compared astronaut Scott Kelly’s bodily functions to those of his earthbound identical twin brother—is getting a follow-up in one of the most forbidding environments on Earth. Two experienced mountaineers are in the middle of a month-long expedition to Mount Everest, while their twi...
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Montannah Kenney, 7, has become the youngest girl to reach the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro.
The girl, who lost her father at the age of 3, wanted to climb Kilimanjaro as a way to get closer to him, her mother said.
Weather conditions were among the worst in 10 years during the climb, adding to the challenge.
For a chance t...
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A Chinese female climber along with three climbing Sherpas successfully scaled Mt Makalu (8,463m) becoming the season’s first team to summit the world’s fifth highest peak without supplemental oxygen this morning.
Gao Xiao-Dan reached the summit point at around 9:00 am without oxygen support after her team found a clear wi...
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At least six climbers successfully stood atop the world’s fourth highest peak making the season’s first ascent of the mountains above 8,000m.
Climber Mingma Gyalje Sherpa along with three fellow Sherpa and two Chinese climbers made it to the top of Mt Lhotse (8,516m) yesterday morning. “We are on Mt Lhotse summit now,” She...
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Kim Hong-bin is the only foreign mountaineer who was given a permit for Annapurna this spring. “The man without fingers” (as he is called sometimes) is going to scale his twelfth eight-thousander. However, that does not mean that a 53-year-old Korean will be traveling alone. He probably has a big base camp support team and ...
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