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Seven bodies from a group of eight missing climbers have been recovered in the Himalayas, officials have said. The mountaineers, believed to include four Brits, two Americans, one Australian and an Indian liaison officer, vanished in the Nanda Devi region on May 26 following an avalanche.
Rescue teams will continue to se...
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Discover Tanzania combining Yoga, Mount Kilimanjaro trek and meditation on uncrowned Kilimanjaro route. 10 Days Northern Circuit is the great choice.
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The climber fell 80 feet from a climb in North Carolina
Free soloing 5.12 was common for Austin Howell. Over the last six years the 31-year-old Lombard, Illinois, resident spent more time climbing without a rope than with one.
“Climbing, to me, has been a path towards peace,” he wrote on his website. “Soloing isn’t ju...
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A group of mountain climbers from Russia has found the belongings of a Soviet-era climber who got lost in Mount Elbrus during a terrible avalanche four decades ago.
The mountaineers found the belongings as they were setting up their tents at 12.467 feet (3,800 meters) altitude on Mount Elbrus, the highest mounta...
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An experienced climber who ran a mountaineering company in the Highlands was killed in an avalanche on an unscaled peak in the Himalayas.
Martin Moran, 64, died alongside six clients and an Indian tour guide on Nanda Devi East, after an avalanche.
Mr Morans death was confirmed on Monday (8th July) by the Brit...
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Five more climbers summited Broad Peak yesterday afternoon. The Imagine Nepal team included Phur Galjen Sherpa, Pemba Tshering Sherpa (both Nepal), Tobias Schwab (Germany), Hari Thomas Mix (USA) and Sirbaz Khan (Pakistan).
None t...
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“Finally, the time we have been waiting for has arrived,” Mike Horn posted yesterday. Together with Fred Roux, and virtually everyone else in Base Camp, Horn set off earlier today toward the summit of the Savage Mountain. “The ascent w...
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Nepal must make training and experience in high altitude climbing mandatory for all climbers on Mount Everest and other high peaks, a government panel has said, following the deadliest climbing season in four years.
Eleven climbers were killed or went missing on the mountain in May - the deadliest season in four years...
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BUCHAREST, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- Local mountain rescuers managed to recover, early in the morning on Sunday, the body of Romanias elite climber Torok Zsolt, killed in possible cliff fall in Fagaras Mountains, central Romania.
Photo credit: MASZOL.RO
The evacuation of the deceased climber in the area of Negoiu Peak ...
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Five people, including two children, have been killed after lightning strikes in the Tatra mountains in Poland and neighbouring Slovakia.
Another 100 people were hurt, some seriously with severe burns or head injuries, Polands Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.
A witness told local media that the thunde...
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A stonemasonry wall at a shrine near the summit of Mt. Fuji was roped off on Tuesday, a day after a falling rock hit and killed a Russian climber.
The woman has been identified by police as Anna Dubrovina, 29, a resident of Tokyos Shinagawa Ward.
An ambulance was called around 7 a.m. on Monday, August 26, repo...
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Legendary Reinhold Messner visited Nanga Parbat Base Camp during Summer of 2019, where the team of Freeride in the Death Zone Project succeeded to ask him several questions.
The whole interview you will see in the upcoming movie about the third step of Freeride in the Death Zone project this Autumn — the ascendin...
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Switzerlands iconic Matterhorn mountain should be closed to climbers, mountain guides have told a Swiss newspaper in comments that have divided the climbing community.
Is the Matterhorn now too dangerous to climb? Photo: AFP
"The mountain has become “too unstable and therefore too dangerous to be a tourist attrac...
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A Slovenian who was the first person to ski down Everest from the summit in 2000 has died felling a tree, a news agency reported on Tuesday.
Davo Karničar (photo: Tomo Jesenicnik)
Davo Karnicar, 56, died in the accident in his mountainous home region of Jezersko in northern Slovenia, news agency STA said.
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The bodies of two men killed in a suspected cliff fall have been discovered at a popular but remote rock-climbing location in the Flinders Ranges.
Photo credit: Julie Fletcher Photography
Emergency crews were called to the Moonarie climbing area in Wilpena Pound at about 1:15pm on Sunday, when the two Adelaide me...
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“In Germany in the forest, I came across a guy lying on the path and it was quite obvious he was dying. He absolutely had nothing and he was crying and unhappy. I didn’t know what to do because I was not in touch with anybody, as my ph...
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A Polish climber died on Nepals Mount Manaslu, the worlds eighth highest peak, expedition organizers said on Sunday - the first fatality of the autumn climbing season.
More than 250 climbers are attempting to reach the summit of the 8,163m high mountain in Nepal.
The 50-year-old woman felt unwell during her ...
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Hey, Italy! Mountain Planet is proud to present the 3rd part of «Freeride in the Death Zone» project in Milano. We invite journalists, bloggers, and all outdoor lovers to join first-time private screening of the movie about climbing Nanga Parbat with following ski descent. It will take place on October, 29 and 30, in Milano...
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After bagging a record number of six no-O2 8,000m summits in exactly one year and two days between summer 2018 and summer 2019, Sergi Mingote is now hoping to tick off the remaining 8,000m peaks. More precisely, he plans to complete al...
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The remains of a young climber who went missing in the French Alps more than 40 years ago appear to have been found, with his family never giving up hope that he would be discovered one day.
This week, emergency rescue teams in the Isère brought down human remains from the Massif des Ecrins area of the Alps, af...
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Winter K2 has become the great unsolved problem of the Himalaya. As such, it has caught the attention of those wishing to “conquer” the ultimate prize. Whether this is positive or not will likely depend on how the challenge is tackled....
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Veteran Spanish mountaineer Carlos Soria among other climbers left for Mt Dhaulagiri to attempt to climb the world’s sixth highest mountain in the autumn season.
Carlos Soria in Khumbu region. Courtesy: Luis M L Soriano
Carlos (80) is part of the 15-member expedition led by woman climber Sophie Marie Therese Jean...
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by RAJAN POKHREL
At least six trekkers including four Koreans went missing from Deurali area in Kaski district after an avalanche triggered by heavy snowfall hit the trail route along the Annapurna trekking circuit on Friday.
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Kate Ballard’s brother Tom, 30, was climbing Nanga Parbat with Italian Daniele Nardi, 42, when they went missing on February 24.
Kate Ballard with her Brother Tom before his death (Image: Daily Record)
The sister of a Scots climber who died on the world’s ninth-highest mountain has made an emotional pilgrimage to...
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A world-renowned climber survived a terrifying fall on Yosemite’s deadly El Capitan — getting saved in part by “Free Solo” star Alex Honnold.
Emily Harrington, 33, said she “took a bad fall” during her latest attempt on the 3,200-foot, almost-sheer granite wall on Sunday — and her companions feared she suff...
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by Angela Benavides
Did we say that Everest teams were “on the move”? Well, not anymore. Alex Txikon had to delay his plans at last minute today, when rising winds flattened one of his tents in Base Camp, setting the team on alert. ...
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