Manaslu Piotr Pustelnik received an SMS late Sunday stating that Kinga Baranowska and Edurne Pasaban bagged Manaslu. “All members returned to BC the same day, good job,” Piotr commented. The climb wasn’t easy,...
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As rescuers brought eight people to saftey, including Italians and Swiss after an avalanche hit Mont Blanc at 0100GMT, further rescue attempts to save another eight still believed buried under the snow has had...
Update: Hope is fading in the search for survivors in the Mont Blanc avalanche. If fully buried, one's survival time is measured in minutes, and, if any of the climbers escaped the debris, then they must contend with...
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One of the world's top mountaineers, Karl Unterkircher died when he fell into a crevasse on Nanga Parbat (literally, 'Naked Mountain') also called the Killer Mountain or Man Eater, located in Pakistan. It is the...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A high-altitude rescue helicopter safely plucked two stranded Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains on Thursday, officials said.
UPDATE: 8:00p.m. May 7, Chinese climbers brings Olympic torch to summit."Chinese television showed the climbers, carrying special high-altitude torches, reaching the summit at 0920 local time (0100GMT).Huddled...
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The first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary, has died at his home in New Zealand. He was 88. "On the mountain, the first assault team that tried to reach the 8848m summit was driven back by...
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Jayapura, Papua (ANTARA News) - Copper and gold mining company PT
Freeport Wednesday denied that it has detained six foreign mountain
climbers for intruding into its working area in the eastern Indonesian
province of Papua.
"We did not detain them. Instead, we helped them on...
"A rare avalanche warning has been issued for climbers at England's third highest mountain after strong winds created unstable stretches of ice and snow.
With up to half a metre of snow, freezing temperatures and gales, authorities said conditions at Helvellyn in the heart of...
All I can say is Good luck! The Russian team is headed off to Nepal to try to find a safer route up into the Western Cwm (pronounced "coom"), bypassing the famed and feared Khumbu Icefall. This would be great in some...
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My good friends, Phil & Sue Ershler, finally have their book hitting the shelves on April 2, 2007. Together on Top of the World, if it mirrors the stories of their lives, will be a great read. I first met Phil in 1986 when I was 12 years old. My father and I were climbing...
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Great news coming from the mountains in Oregon, as all three missing climbers were found, and found in good shape..."Search teams Monday morning reached three climbers stranded on Mt. Hood in white-out conditions.
"... Search teams on the mountain have located and are with...
"Rescuers have begun climbing Mount Hood in an effort to find and help three climbers who slipped over a ledge near Illumination Saddle shortly before noon today.
It's unknown how far down the mountain the climbers fell or how badly they are injured, said Jim Strovink, a...
"JG Ian Barker's debrief on Vinson rescue: Three very long days in Antarctica
11:46 am EST Feb 15, 2007
(ThePoles.com) "We are under the tent, we have no stove, we have some with frostbite. Our situation is desperate, please, please come and get us. I can't move them by...
"Breaking news from Pakistan: K6 open for climbing!
K-6 will be open to climbing expeditions this year - other mountains nearby such as K7 will be allowed for climbers as well soon. Image of the head of Charakusa valley, with K6 (center) and Kapura (right) peaks in...
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