French Climber Alain Robert Climbs Burj Khalifa French climber Alain Robert, who is aptly known as "Spiderman", climbed the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Robert completed the Burj Khalifa climb in just over six hours, which...
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K2 Summit Attempt Fails as Swedish Skier Fredrik Ericsson Falls to His Death A team of climbers on K2, located at the Pakistan-China border, have descended back down to Camp 4 after one of their party, Swedish...
As rescue workers search for the three missing Mt. Hood Hikers, one has been found dead, and two are still missing. The dead Mt. Hood hiker was identified as Luke T. Gullberg, a 26-year-old from Des Moines, Washington, just south of Seattle. His friends made a Facebook...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 3636 views | 24 recommendations | 1 comment
Dougald MacDonald - a great writer, climber, and all-around guy - wrote a brilliant post yesterday about the tragic passing of climber Craig Luebben. In it, he discusses at length the commonly-heard phrase: "Well, at least he died doing what he loved."
In his post,...
opinion by jakedai | 2 years ago 165 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Craig Luebben, rock climber, instructor, writer, inventor, and father, was killed in a mountaineering accident on Mount Torment in Washington State. With his background in mechanical engineering, Craig Luebben is...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1104 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
YOSAR 2008 report Hundreds of large-scale, alpine-area search and rescue (SAR) operations are mounted every year, all over the world. A common misconception is that most of these rescues are aimed at...
opinion by Marisa Olivia | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1403 views | 34 recommendations | 6 comments
This is a piece of news which, as a non-profit organization, really means a lot to us. Timmy Dolan, a 9-year-old from Boulder, CO, found The Mountain Fund in an internet search. Timmy is a competitor in the...
opinion by mtnfund | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 409 views | 20 recommendations | 7 comments
Lorenzo Gariano has just summited Vinson Massiv on Antarctica, thus completing the Seven Summits challenge - climbing the highest mountain on each of the world's continents - and making him only the second Italian...
Travellers landing at Indian capital New Delhi's airport have often complained of problems. Situation is slowly improving after a private company Delhi International Airport Limited took over the management of the...
created by Sanjay Jha | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 693 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
" A bald, naked man who said he was a British tourist went swimming in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace on Tuesday, climbing the palace wall, throwing rocks and splashing water at police before being taken...
On the 6th of July Kobus Alberts, Steffen Oesterle, Volker Mohrholz and Toralf Heene started the climb to Königstein.We left at 14:00, with the aim to overnight in the area near to Springbokwasser. (Just to...
created by markyatd | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1235 views | 3 recommendations | 0 comments
"A boy of 16 who plunged 60ft to his death from a tower block while fleeing a knife-wielding gang was caught up in a drugs turf war and was not the intended target, it was claimed today. Friends said Ahmed Benyermak was being chased by a gang of violent hoodies because the...
After falling from its record peak of $147.27 a barrel last month, Price of crude oil has shot up again. Price of crude have been steadily gaining from below $20 in early 2002. Price rise was fueled by growing demand and...
created by Sanjay Jha | 3 years ago 265 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Crowd control is poor in India and stampedes are common. Maybe there were many lives could be saved if the procedure of this sort incident was improved by the authorities. Just like the survivor said the victims...
created by sweet east pearl | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2653 views | 7 recommendations | 3 comments
Just a few days ago an Italian climber lost his life and two others were rescued by a Pakistani military helicopter from the Nanga Parbat. The notorious mountain has probably swallowed up other ambitious climbers...
created by rumana husain | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 412 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments