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This winter’s frigid weather created the perfect conditions for three intrepid ice climbers to make the first-ever ascent of Canada’s tallest waterfall.
At 440 metres tall, Della Falls in Vancouver Island’s Strathcona Provincial Park has been an insurmountable climbing challenge — until late last month.
Over four cold...
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More than 406 climbers have received permits to climb 15 different mountains in the Himalayas this spring season.
According to the Department of Tourism, as of April 4, 180 will be attempting to climb Everest whereas 35 will try to summit Lhotse and 27 will try to summit Nuptse. The climbers will be assisted by nearly 1,...
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Clair Popkin ’07 was working as a cinematographer on the Netflix series “Abstract: The Art of Design,” when he casually mentioned to the director that he had hurt his neck skydiving. Her response surprised him: “You might just be the right kind of crazy to work with us.”
One lunch meeting later, Popkin joined filmmakers...
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Renowned South Korean climber Sung-Taek Hong, 52, has left for the Mt Everest region to make his sixth attempt to climb the Lhotse South Face, one of the toughest climbs in the world, this season.
According to Wangchu Sherpa, Managing Director at Trekking Camp Nepal, Hong will be leading a six-member international team i...
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The trailer of Everest VR, the film by British mountaineer Jon Griffith that documents an attempt by Sherpa Tenji to climb Mt Everest without supplementary oxygen.
On 30 April 2017 world famous Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck perished on Mt. Nuptse whilst acclimatising for one of the most ambitious mountaineering projects in t...
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There’s a nascent pink aura around the cherry blossom trees in Kansai. Wes Lang is dressed in a green shell jacket with a matching green zipper-pull hanging down just below his sternum, parallel with the drawstrings of the jacket hood. From an inner layer, which looks to be a blue fleece jacket, a black T-shirt peeks throug...
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In a bid to keep the world’s highest mountain clean, Nepali stakeholders are all set to jointly launch a massive cleaning drive on Mt Everest this spring season.
The joint initiative planned by government and non-government agencies aims to collect bodies and the rubbish left behind by the climbers from the South Col (Ca...
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Polish climbing ace Adam Bielecki is leaving this weekend for another crack at the daunting Northwest Face of Annapurna. He will follow the same route, in the same style and with the same climbing mate, Felix Berg. Although frazzled by...
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Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said today, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world’s tallest mountain has shrunk. Four government surveyors will depart on Wednesday for Everest, which lies on the Himalayan range straddling the border...
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Adam Ondra broadens his repertoire of skills in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics :)
And the video:
Source: http://rockandice.com
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With the start of this year’s main climbing season, record holding climbers are going to attempt Mt Dhaulagiri without using supplemental oxygen in an alpine style, according to the expedition organizer.
Slovakian climber Peter Hámor, 53, and Romanian alpinist Horia Dan Colibasanu, 42, have already reached the base camp ...
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According to the Austrian newspaper Tiroler Tageszeitung, Austrian alpinists David Lama and Hansjörg Auer are reported missing after an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains in Canada.
Austrian alpinists David Lama and Hansjörg Auer are feared missing after an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains. The news, still awaiting officia...
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Further disturbing facts are emerging about the circumstances in which the Summit Air LET-410 crash at Lukla claimed the lives of three people.
Recording his statement to the probe team, senior captain Rabindra Bahadur Rokaya reportedly said he failed to immediately correct the wrong move taken by his first officer Sujit...
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“As of today, 374 world climbers including 12 Nepalis obtained climbing permits for Mt Everest,” Rameshwor Niraula, an official at the Department of Tourism, said, adding that at least 73 women climbers would be attempting to climb the world’s highest peak. “DoT has collected more than 420 million rupees as royalty by issu...
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For seniors, here are a few tips to make a walk up a hill safe and enjoyable too
A recent newspaper report said that a man in his 50s died on his way up the Velliangiri hills in Coimbatore. As he walked up to a shrine on the top of the hill, he felt breathless. To avoid any untoward incident, here are a few things to kee...
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Malaysian climber Wui Kin Chin, who was rescued alive from above Camp IV on Mt Annapurna yesterday and evacuated from the world’s tenth highest mountain this morning, is presently receiving treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of Nepal Mediciti Hospital in Kathmandu.
Kin Chin’s health condition is known to be critical at...
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A new study looks at who lives and who dies when lost in the wild.
On March 1, 2019, in Humboldt County, California, two sisters, ages 5 and 8, went for a walk in the woods adjoining their 80-acre rural property. They didnt come home. Search and rescue would find them, 44 hours later, huddled under a huckleberry bush in ...
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Nepali Army refuted the Indian military’s claim that its soldiers had discovered yeti footprints in the Himalayas, saying they were more likely just a bear.
The Indian army posted images of “yeti footprints” from near the Nepal-China border on Monday on Twitter, triggering considerable ridicule on social media.
Nepali...
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96-year-old Swiss alpinist Marcel Rémy has attempted to climb a 6a multi-pitch rock climb. Is he perhaps the best climber in the world.
Photo: mammut.com
Who is the best climber in the world? The one who has 9b’s and 9c’s on his tick list? No! Because maybe tomorrow or overmorrow there will be another name in...
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By Hari Bastola, POKHARA: A recently constructed alternative trekking route connecting a tourist village of Annapurna rural municipality, Birethanti and Hidden Lake has come into operation.
The trail is expected to boost tourism and support ‘Internal Tourist Visit Year, 2019’ and ‘Visit Nepal Year, 2020’. It takes around s...
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It’s hard to imagine there would be anything new to find in a place as well loved as the 128-year-old Yosemite National Park. But professional backpacker Andrew Skurka scoured maps and set out on a scouting trip in August along the Sierra Crest in search of a new route through one of the country’s most popular parks.
Aft...
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Hiking the high desert of northeastern Nevada offers some great benefits, and challenges, due to the remote landscapes.
For example, Seitz Canyon on the west side of the Ruby Mountains gets few visitors. I had hiked into this canyon three times without seeing another person. On the fourth visit, however, I came around a...
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At least 14 climbers successfully scaled the world’s highest mountain early this morning after a team of climbers from Imagine Nepal Treks found a second fair summit window on Mt Everest this spring season.
Managing Director at Imagine Nepal Treks Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, who guided a team of climbers to the height of 8,300...
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Just in a week after breaking his own record for most summits on Mt Everest, Kami Rita Sherpa has again scaled the world’s highest mountain this morning.
Gyanendra Shrestha, a liaison officer at the base camp, told THT that the 49-year-old climber scaled Mt Everest for the 24th time becoming the only mountaineer in the w...
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Tim Mosedale and Dorjee Gyalgen Sherpa are the first climbers this season to summit the tricky 7,861m Nuptse.
Mosedale and a team of climbing Sherpas have put in some backbreaking work since early May. They repeatedly broke trail to Camp 3 and painstakingly fixed ropes above 7,000m. They had anticipated a May 14 summit, ...
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The world’s highest mountain witnessed a traffic jam near the balcony area after more than 200 climbers attempted to reach the summit point of Mt Everest this morning.
In this undate image, climbers are seen heading to the top of Mt Everest. Photo Courtesy: Lydia Bradey
According to Gyanendra Shrestha, a liaison ...
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French authorities brought the man to safety after he made a 528-foot free ascent.
The Eiffel Tower was closed Monday after a man with no ropes, dressed only in casual clothing, attempted to climb it. It took the man (whose name still has not been released) approximately seven hours to climb from the 377-foot second pla...
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While Everest snags the headlines, the most remarkable climb of the season may have just taken place on Chamlang, a 7,319m peak at the head of Nepal’s Hongu Valley, in the shadow of Makalu. Czechs Marek “Mara” Holeček and Zděnek “Hook” Hák have climbed a new route up the 2,000m Northwest Face, on an alpine style, eight-day ...
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