Mark your calendars! 4th to 6th December 2009 in Krakow, Poland. VII KFG – 7th Krakow Mountain Film Festival. The 7th Krakow Mountain Festival (KFG) starts in a month (4-6 December 2009). As always, the most important part of the festival are guests and mountain films. We...
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One of Scotland's most breathtaking and dangerous mountains have took the life of three climbers after they were caught in an avalanche at Buachaille Eite Mòr, above Glencoe. This sparked a three hour rescue...
HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak - 2008/09 part 1. HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak led by Artur Hajzer , the team : Robert Szymczak and Don Bowie from Canada. 2008/09...
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“Ice Warriors” not give up. HiMountain winter expedition to Broad Peak - 2008/09. The eighties are long gone but a warrior’s soul never dies: The tough bunch of climbers who wrote the coolest pages of...
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Mark your calendars! 5th to 7th December 2008 in Krakow, Poland. VI KFG - 6th Krakow Mountain Film Festival.We would like to invite you to the biggest annual mountaineering event in Poland - the 6th Krakow...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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