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Countless corpses are on Mount Everest, so why are hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring?
54 years, 11 months ago

Countless corpses are on Mount Everest, so why are hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring?

CNN  

CNN — Thick murky clouds fill the sky, with freezing winds carrying snow faster than 100 miles per hour. “Sometimes that’s just not practical because of the bad weather, or because their bodies will get frozen into the mountain,” Arnette told CNN. “Watching the sunrise from 29,000 feet and having that pyramid of Everest’s shadow projected onto the valley below …

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Belagavi mountaineer completes pre-Everest expedition
2 years, 3 months ago

Belagavi mountaineer completes pre-Everest expedition

The Hindu  

A team of mountaineers from around the country climbed Mt. The Satopanth expedition is known as a pre-Everest expedition, as many mountaineers climb this peak in preparation to climb Climb Everest. Among the team is Akshay Deshpande, a young mountaineer from Belagavi in Karnataka. A computer science engineer, Akshay Deshpande, is a Handicraft promoter and khadi campaigner. His team members …

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Female Climbers from Pakistan and Iran Become First Women Mountaineers to Reach K2 Summit
2 years, 5 months ago

Female Climbers from Pakistan and Iran Become First Women Mountaineers to Reach K2 Summit

News 18  

A Pakistani female mountaineer and another from Iran scripted history on Friday by becoming the first women from their countries to scale the summit of the mighty and treacherous K2, the second-highest mountain peak in the world, a mountaineering official said on Friday. We are extremely proud to announce that Samina Baig with her strong Pakistani team, successfully summit the …

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Ken Hutt's death-defying bid to paraglide from Mount Everest summit to be captured on film to help end polio
2 years, 8 months ago

Ken Hutt's death-defying bid to paraglide from Mount Everest summit to be captured on film to help end polio

ABC  

Imagine you only had one shot. "It's the ultimate extreme sports film and I only have one go at it," Carter said. "My preparations have been really extreme, because it's so compressed … so every day I've been on Mount Coot-Tha, going up and down, trying to get as many laps in as possible." "I'm not up there to kill …

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Herdsman enjoys high life helping climbers reach summit
3 years, 6 months ago

Herdsman enjoys high life helping climbers reach summit

China Daily  

Local herdsmen like Bikmirza Turdil work as mountaineer guides every summer. They help climbers carry equipment and supplies during their adventure to the 7,546-meter-high Mount Muztagata in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. For locals, attempting to conquer the 7,546-meter-high Mount Muztagata, or "father of ice mountains" in the local language, is a symbol of bravery and even regarded as a …

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Noida’s Arjun Vajpai to scale Everest for 2nd time; no O2 support this time
3 years, 8 months ago

Noida’s Arjun Vajpai to scale Everest for 2nd time; no O2 support this time

Hindustan Times  

Mountaineer Arjun Vajpai, 27, reached the Everest Base Camp on Saturday evening to climb Mount Everest again. HT Image Along with his father Colonel Sanjeev Vajpai and mother Priya Vajpai, the Noida resident started his journey from Nepal’s small mountain town Lukla to the base camp on April 8 morning. According to Sparsh Tyagi, Vajpai’s manager, the 27-year-old “hopes to …

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Doug Scott: Celebrating the late Himalayan mountaineer’s life of high adventure
4 years ago

Doug Scott: Celebrating the late Himalayan mountaineer’s life of high adventure

Live Mint  

There are those who rejoice on reaching the top of a mountain; then, there are those who relish the adventure, whether they reach the summit or not. Two years later, Scott, now a recently-married young man who was workng as a school teacher, found his life changed when he was invited on a high profile international expedition that was attempting …

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