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Depending on who you ask, hiking can mean anything from a 20-minute walk in the woods to a weeks-long trek through the Alps, which is why theres no such thing as the best hiking boot. Some boots look and feel like sneakers, others are made of fine leather and have enough traction to take on the wettest, muddiest trails. Bel...
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Following the success of the award-winning Sinai Trail that opened in 2015, a new hiking route called the Red Sea Mountain Trail has just been unveiled. The 170km-long route, the first long-distance trail in mainland Egypt, highlights the little-visited rugged mountainscapes outside the beachside resort town of Hurghada and...
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French climber Elisabeth Revol, who was dramatically rescued last year from Pakistan’s Mount Nanga Parbat, summited Lhotse Friday morning, a day after reaching the top of Everest, her expedition organiser said.
Philippe Desmazes, AFP | French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol talks to journalists during an exclusive intervi...
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A team of four from the Adare Uniting Church are taking on the challenge of participating in the Adelaide Coastrek 30km walk to be held on the Fleurieu coast in September.
Walking with a cause: Lindsay Pryde, Margie Field, Jaelene Slade and Barb Gepp busy training for the Adelaide Coastrek
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A 32-year-old climber from Sankhuwasabha district has set the new world record in speed climbing by successfully scaling two mountains above 8,000 metres in the spring climbing season.
Mingma Dorchi Sherpa, who stood atop the roof of the world on May 27 at 12:44 am, successfully climbed the world’s fourth highes...
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(CNN) Mandy Moore posted about her and her friends hiking to Mount Everests base camp around the time an American lawyer became the 11th person to die during the climbing season.
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In a long posting on her official Instagram account Monday the "This Is Us" star shared severa...
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Nature, art and history lovers all catered for in wonderful outdoor adventures
Nelson Mandela Bay has firmly established itself as a premier sports tourism destination and with events like Ironman and The Herald Continental Cycle Tour taking place annually, the city has become synonymous with outdoor activities.
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A fell runner has set a new record for tackling all of Alfred Wainwrights 214 Lake District peaks.
Paul Tierney ran 318 miles (511 km) starting and finishing in Keswick and ascending a total of 36,000m (118,000ft) in six days and six hours.
The 36-year-old running coach, based in Windermere, raised more than ...
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American alpinist Steve House has created a free video series entitled Alpine Principles to teach the climbing community how to make better decisions in the mountains.
One of the world’s leading alpinists, Steve House, has created a free 5-part video series entitled Alpine Principles aimed at teaching the climbing commun...
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A near-death experience led an adventurous mountain climber to find a career in nursing.
Ian Overton, 34, attempted to summit Nanga Parbat a couple of years ago, but fell ill along the way. Nanga Parbat is the 9th tallest mountain in the world and is nicknamed, "The Killer Mountain."
"The summit-to-kill ratio...
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Sherpa guides say true climbers know when to turn back
The spring climbing season has ended with at least nine fatalities on Mt Everest, but none of the climbers’ died due to congestion on the world’s highest peak, claim Sherpa guides.
Climbers ascending Mt Everest on May 22. Photo Courtesy: Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja
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Summit of Mont Blanc on June 26, 2019 at the end of the afternoon...
With the exceptional heat wave and the absence of wind, many paragliders have been able to land on... the summit of Mont Blanc (4808 M-Haute Savoie-France). They all took off 2000 m lower before they raised thanks to the exceptional ancestries!
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Tourists and foreign visitors traveling to Tanzania are advised not to carry with them plastic bags on arrival at the major airports to avoid incursion by the state legal and security machinery.
A man stands among plastic bags at a garbage dump in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ( Getty Images )
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Blind British paraclimber Jesse Dufton, guided by his climbing partner Molly Thompson, has repeated world famous trad climb The Old Man of Hoy off the Orkney Islands in Scotland. First ascended by in 1966 by Chris Bonington, Tom Patey and Rusty Baillie, this 6-pitch outing is a true symbol of British rock climbing.
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This article first appeared on http://explorersweb.com. The original can be read here.
Polish duo Jarosław Gawrysiak and Wojtek Flaczyński reached the summit of Nanda Devi East. They left from Camp 3 at 6,800m, after a week-long summit push. At last word, the climbers had descended to 7,313m. Conditions were initially g...
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Doctors predicted Getulio Felipe would never walk after a complication at birth left him with cerebral palsy. But the 14-year-old Brazilian learned to walk at age 7, and on Sunday, April 21, he summited the Punta Penia (3343m) on the Marmolada, the highest point of the Dolomites in Italy.
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Despite challenging conditions Simon Richardson and Mark Robson have made the first ascent of five hitherto unclimbed peaks in the Stikine Range in South-East Alaska, including Peak 7180, one of the highest unclimbed mountains in the region. Richardson reports.
Mark Robson on the summit of P5910. Photo by Simon Richa...
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South Korean climber Kim Hong-bin, who lost all of his fingers to frostbite nearly 30 years ago, has managed to reach the summit of 13 of the 14 mountains in the world that are higher than 8-thousand meters.
Kim reached the top of the worlds 11th highest mountain, Gasherbrum I.
He plans to climb the final mount...
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As monsoon season settles into the Himalaya, it’s time to turn slightly further east, to the Karakorum. Here, porters and climbers are already approaching the base of Pakistan’s five 8000’ers. A number of climbing stars and innovative teams will share these peaks with ever more numerous commercial expeditions. This year we ...
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In September 2019 the Polish mountaineer Krzysztof Wielicki will receive the Piolets dOr Carrière 2019. In the past this prize has been awarded to Walter Bonatti, Reinhold Messner, Doug Scott, Robert Paragot, Kurt Diemberger, John Roskelley, Chris Bonington, Wojciech Kurtyka, Jeff Lowe and Andrej Štremfelj.
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Shes the youngest person in history to climb the iconic 3,000-foot route
Selah Schneiter, 10, is small for her age, weighing just 55 pounds and standing four foot two. She loves math and playing guitar and is “silly and plays make believe,” says her mom, Joy.
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Ten-year-old Selena became the youngest person to climb the 7,027m peak of Spantik also known as the Golden Peak situated in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Nagar Valley in the Karakoram sub-range.
Selena had previously held the record of climbing the 5,765-metre-high Quz Sar Peak followed by 6,050-metre Mingli Sir in 2018 a...
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Romanian climber Alex Găvan has reached the Gasherbrum II peak in the Karakoram mountains, without the aid of supplemental oxygen.
This is the seventh, over 8,000-meter peak Găvan conquers, in a project to become the first Romanian who climbs all the 14 peaks of over 8,000 meters in the world, without supplemen...
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38-year-old Ecuadorian climber Karl Egloff surpassed the Denali speed record, a climb up and down Americas tallest mountain, by just four minutes on Thursday, clocking a time of 11 hours and 44 minutes. He said it was a great honor for the people of his home continent of South America.
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10 Polish climbers are all set to summit Nanda Devi East/ Sunanda Devi (7434m), located in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Proceeding from the Advanced Base Camp, the team is now supposed to lead towards the summit of this eastern peak of Nanda Devi (7816m) in the Kumaun Himalayas. As per the updates received yesterday, th...
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A former UK’s Special Forces member Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja has set the world record by successfully climbing 11 of the world’s highest mountains, known as the 8000ers, in just over four months.
Purja, 35, has succeeded in the second phase of his ambition to speed climb the world’s 14 highest mountains in just 7 months.
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Everest had a starring role in Shanghai International Film Festival recently and not because of recent parallels with that city’s traffic jams. Blockbuster action hero Wu Jing and other members of the cast introduced The Climbers, an upcoming film about how the “other” side of Everest was conquered.
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Over nearly three decades, Apa Sherpa has witnessed the effects of a warming climate and an overcrowded peak.
I didn’t want to be a climber. My dream since I was young was to become a doctor.But I had to make a choice between my dream and my family. I chose my family.
APA SHERPA as told to EMILY ATKIN
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