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Experienced Peruvian climber Richard Hidalgo was found dead Wednesday on Mount Makalu, the worlds fifth-highest mountain, expedition organisers in Nepal said.
The body of the 52-year-old was found in his tent at 6,600 metres (21,650 feet) by Sherpa guides who went to check after he did not wake up.
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Tanzania wants to boost tourist numbers by putting a cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, and is in talks about the project with a Chinese and a Western company.
Photo: REUTERS/Katrina Manson
Around 50,000 tourists climb Kilimanjaro annually. A cable car could increase tourist numbers by ...
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Two Indian climbers have died on Kangchenjunga (8,586m), the world’s third highest mountain. The victims have been confirmed by Seven Summit Treks as Kuntal Karar (46) and Biplab Baidya (48). They developed altitude difficulties during their descent.
Biplab had reached the summit, while Karar — whose difficulties began o...
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Argentine authorities have recovered a body thought to be a Spanish climber who disappeared three decades ago in the mountainous western part of the country.
The body was spotted by a person walking on a glacier near the town of Potrerillos in the Andean province of Mendoza. Authorities are using DNA testing to confirm t...
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Looking up at Langtang Lirung from their isolated Base Camp, Adam Bielecki and Felix Berg came to two conclusions: First, their decision to turn back from the upper slopes earlier this week had been right. Snow had fallen non-stop since then. Second, the time left before the monsoon strikes has run short. Too short.
“The...
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An assistant professor in artificial intelligence at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College, Dublin has gone missing near balcony area of the world’s highest mountain when he was descending from the summit point of Mt Everest.
Mingma Sherpa, Chairman at Seven Summit Treks, told THT that Seamus ...
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Two Swiss mountaineers landed a small plane less than 400 metres from the summit of Mont Blanc on Tuesday before heading for the top of Europes tallest peak with police in pursuit, the French gendarme said.
Hikers on the Mont Blanc massif. File photo: AFP
The pair landed the aircraft at 4,450 metres on the famous...
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Indian Air Force helicopters have joined the search for eight climbers missing on the countrys second highest mountain.
Photo credit: GETTY IMAGES
The missing group includes four people from the UK, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian.
The team started climbing Nanda Devi in the Himalayas on 13 May; t...
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An IAF search team on Monday spotted the bodies of five missing mountaineers near the avalanche-hit Nanda Devi peak in Uttarakhand.
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Eight climbers - four from Britain, two from the United States, and one each from Australia and India - were reported missing since Friday after they faile...
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Rangers at Mount Rainier National Park are attempting to rescue four climbers stranded on the challenging Liberty Ridge route to the summit and issued an emergency closure for the route Wednesday.
Liberty Ridge and Carbon Glacier on Mount Rainier. (National Park Service via The Associated Press)
The climber...
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Three Indian climbers, who claimed that they made it to the roof of the world on May 26, had not even reached Camp IV on Mt Everest this spring season, THT investigation has revealed.
Photo: Shobha Banwala/Facebook
The revelation comes at a time when local media outlets and communities in the northern Indian stat...
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Ice temperatures of Khumbu glacier in the Mt Everest region have been higher than expected, a scientific research has found, indicating that floods and droughts are likely to become more common, and glacial lake growth along with its hazards will increase in coming decades.
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Deep snow and avalanche risk has forced back climbers on K2.
K2 from Base Camp. Photo: Imagine Nepal
“Mingma Tenzi and Pemba Tshering tried to break the trail from the Bottleneck, but it was almost impossible to advance,” sa...
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An Italian diplomat and two mountaineering workers in Pakistan said on Monday that an avalanche had stranded a group of four Italian and three Pakistani climbers on a mountain in the countrys north.
Photo credit: AP / Musaf Zaman Kazmi
A tour operator, Ashraf Aman, who arranged the expedition, said the avalanche ...
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As climbers continue to die in the Himalayas, a look back at the conquest of the tallest mountain in the world.
The mountains are deceptively calm. Snow-covered, sometimes they blaze bright enough to blind. They appear indifferent to the tiny travelers on their backs — these European men in the waning years of the Britis...
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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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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).
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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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