Blog by Daily Mountain

Its Friday and time for a good movie! Right? So what have we got here - part four of movies about climbing, mountains, mountain adventures, extreme sports and natural extreme situations. We hope youll like all of them. Lets start! 1. Poorna (2017) An Adivasi 13-year-old from Telangana becomes the youngest girl in history ...
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A plaque honouring the Limerick climber Ger McDonnell, who died on K2 a decade ago, has been erected at the mountain’s base camp. The memorial was placed by a Donegal man who hopes to become the second Irish man to reach the summit: Jason Black. The Irish Red Cross ambassador has just reached K2 base camp in Pakistan ahea...
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Blog by Sergey Kofanov

Police pull guy into window who was climbing Trump Tower
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Blog by Charles Nimmo

‘Unusual causes of low blood-oxygen levels, and coping strategies, learnt from conducting simulated altitude training.’   INTRODUCTION. Those who engage in mountain pursuits do it for a variety of reasons, some wish to push the limits of human performance by climbing a 7000m peak without bottled oxygen, and others have...
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Blog by Sergey Kofanov

Bright impressions are always expected from your trip to the mountains. While in the mountains, people are looking for themself, someone is expecting to meet interesting people, someone is in search of adventure, and others just want to immerse themself into mountain silence and clean air. But there is also another aspect. ...
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Blog by Pema Dorjee sherpa

first came in to world focus when Tenzing norgay sherpa of Nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of Newzealand conquered Mt. Everest in 1953. ever since, there have been countless expeditions heading off to the Himalayas. With eight of worlds highest peaks within Nepals boundaries, There is tremendous interest in the Nepal Himalaya....
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Blog by Luba Pershina

В Аргентине, как признаются сами аргентинцы, нет древней культуры, но есть Буэнос Айрес, танго и гаучо!  И есть веселые и добрые люди. А еще в Аргентине есть живописнейший  и суровый, но срывающий крышу своей красотой край - Патагония. Это гигантская территория, на которой есть горы, степи, льды и озера, моря, дороги и гор...
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Blog by Emanuel Rocha

  Climbing, besides being great exercise in the open air, is a sport which requires much physical, psychological adnd mental effort, as well as temperance, decision and maximum responsibility to be in charge of our acts, and learning to recognize and respect our own limits.   The mountain is a very demanding environment wh...
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Blog by Prakash Devkota

Island Peak Climbing in Nepal Island Peak Climbing Memorable Moment Island Peak Climbing is an excellent opportunity who wants to climb the magnificent Island Peak - the most popular trekking peak in Nepal. Island Peak also is known as ‘Imja Tse’ was first climbed by Charles Evan, Alf Gregory, Charles Wylie and Te...
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Blog by Alpine Ramble Treks

10 Days Everest base camp trek enthralls everyone as it is, in fact,  a trip of a lifetime. Everest base camp trek is one of the most popular and spectacular trekking destinations in the world, where you would want to be at least once in a lifetime.  It’s a trek to the base camp of world’s highest mountain which offers one ...
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Blog by Daily Mountain

Interview with American alpinist Colin Haley after his record-breaking ascent of the Cassin Ridge on Denali (McKinley) in Alaska in 8 hours 7 minutes on 5 June 2018 After what Colin Haley himself describes as at least a decade of scheming and daydreaming, and three unsuccessful attempts (2010, 2011, 2012), on 5 June 2018 t...
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The first 10 mountaineers to ascend the highest peak in the world. How many years ago did it happen? Who were they? It goes without saying that the first 10 people who climbed Mount Everest successfully had to face great risks, as they were treading a lesser known path, full of dangers. Many had failed before these 10 climb...
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Blog by Mountain Planet

The Russian Mountain Guides Association started its partnership with the MountainPlanet.com project - free collaborative online encyclopedia and platform for effective communication within the global Alpine Community. According to our mission, which is based on making mountains closer and safer for all members of the globa...
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Heres a list of five most famous movies about climbing, mountains, mountaineering, mountain adventures, extreme sports and natural extreme situations. Perhaps, youve already seen them — or you might never have heard about any. Enjoy! 1. Cliffhanger (1993) A botched mid-air heist results with suitcases full of cash being s...
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Australian Steve Plain has become the fastest climber to scale the highest peaks in seven continents, taking 117 days for a feat popularly called the "Seven Summits", after he scaled Mount Everest early on Monday, his expedition company in Nepal said. Plain, 36, who hails from Albury, Australia, reached the 8,850-metre (29...
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#MountainAlphabet is back again. Hope you missed us as we did miss you. So which letter is the next on our list - its definitely letter C! Mountains starting with C… Inner voice says it should be Cotopaxi!  Ecuador has always been a sort of Mecca for adventure seekers and mountain enthusiasts around the world. The countr...
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A Nepali woman climber today broke her own world record by scaling Mt Everest for the ninth time. Lhakpa Sherpa (44) stood atop the summit of world’s highest mountain for the ninth time from the North Col (Tibetan side) as a handful of climbers got a fair window to make their final summit pushes this morning, according to ...
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The Old Man of Hoy in Scotland was climbed recently by eight-year-old Edward Mills. In becoming the youngest person to climb the iconic sea stack he importantly raised nearly €30,000 for Climbers Against Cancer. One of Great Britain’s most famous rock climbs, the Old Man of Hoy on the Orkney Islands in Northern Scotland, w...
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Heres the video of first ever full ski descent of K2 (8611m) located in Karakoram, Pakistan. Polish climber Andrzej Bargiel has done something great and almost unbelievable - he has become the first to ski down dangerous K2.    "I would like to thank all my sponsors and everyone who helped me reach the top of K2,...
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Mountaineer from Petersburg Alexander Gukov, who was blocked for several days on the slope of the Latok-1 in Pakistan, has been rescued and taken to a hospital, according to coordinator of the rescue team Anna Piunova. "He was rescued, they are flying to the hospital of city of Skardu," Piunova said. She added that the r...
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This article first appeared on ExplorersWeb. The original can be read here. The 2018 Karakoram season began with strong winds and heavy snowfall. By early July, it seemed that this might be another quiet summit year. Unlike Everest, K2 isnt climbed every season. The weather turned abruptly on July 14, and a solid week of...
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From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, comes FREE SOLO.  It is a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most fa...
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Blog by Mountain Planet

Mountain Planet are glad to inform Alpine Community about partnership with Andalusian Association of Mountain Guides. In August 2018 Mountain Planet Alpine Community signed the collaboration agreement with Andalusian Association of Mountain Guides (AAGGM, aaggm.es). It was formed in Y2017 as non-profit organizati...
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Bengali mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta became the youngest mountaineer in the world to complete both the Seven Summits and the Seven Volcanic Summits. Satyarup achieved this feat at the age of 35 years 262 days when he scaled Mt. Sidley (4285m) in Antarctica on 16th January, 2019. He has surpassed Australian mountaineer Dan...
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Two-thousand kilograms of solid waste has been collected from Mt Everest region under the Sagarmatha Cleaning Campaign. Of the total amount of garbage collected, 1,000 kg was taken to Kathmandu and another 1,000 kg to Okhaldhunga in a Nepali Army helicopter for disposal, according to Sagarmatha National Park. Locally man...
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Adam Bielecki and Felix Berg are doing it again: their “secondary” acclimatization peak (before attempting a new route on Annapurna) is a mighty challenge by itself. The grandeur of Langtang Lirung (7,227m) was equaled by the disbelief the climbers met when they revealed their plans to the locals in Langtang valley. “The...
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At least four Nepali climbers successfully stood atop the 7,161-metre peak in the Mt Everest region this afternoon. “Four Sherpa climbers reached the top of Mt Pumori opening a route to the summit point at 1:15 pm,” Tamding Sherpa, Managing Director at Himalayan Experience Pvt Ltd, said. According to him, the rope fix...
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A former Gurkha soldier, who is on his mission to complete all 14 peaks above 8,000 metres in just seven months, today left for Mt Dhaulagiri to attempt to climb the 8,167-metre peak. Talking to THT, UK’s former special forces soldier Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja, 34, said that he would attempt Mt Dhaulagiri without using supplem...
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