It is not once , not twice but nineteen times.A Napalese Sherpa climbed Highest peak of the world 19 times. He is on mission to clean the garbage dumped by the mountaineers.What anybody achieves by conquering the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is also the US National Day of Service. According to MLKDay.gov, more than 13,000 people chose to celebrate by volunteering, doubling last year's number. The Mountain Fund had its...
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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...
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The glacier cover in mountain regions worldwide has decreased significantly in recent years as a result of warming trends, according to a latest report conducted by the International Center...
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An American national David Hahn, 46, of Taos, New Mexico, have become the first non Nepalese climber to reach Mount Everest for tenth time. The record for largest number of climbs of the world's highest mountain is held by Appa, a Sherpa guide who earlier this month...
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A Nepalese Sherpa had broken his own records of scaling everest maximum time. He was holding the record of climbing 17th time and now today he again scaled the peak and set a new record.
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A veteran Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for a record 18th time Thursday,...
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Climbers have succeded in reaching to the peak of Mount Everest for this season. Total of 9 people from US, Canada & UK have reached the summit today morning. All expeditions from Tibet side is closed so...
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Wired reports that climbers on Mount Everest’s south side are surreptitiously blogging a standoff with Nepalese soldiers ahead of China’s Olympic torch run on the opposite side of the mountain next...
"Sherpas, mountaineers and a grateful nation mourned Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary at a state funeral Tuesday, more than half a century after he first stood on the roof of the world.
Thousands of mourners...
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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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On May 2, I reported on the story of Ian Woodall's intentions to give final resting peace to Francys Arsentiev, a Colorado climber and mother who perished on Mount Everest in 1998 with her husband Sergei. A touching article came out today in The Rocky Mountain News detailing...
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"Appa Sherpa Summits Everest for Record 17th Time
THT Online
Kathmandu, May 16
Appa Sherpa broke his own world record on Wednesday by summitting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, for a staggering seventeenth time, reports said.
"Despite bad weather, Appa Sherpa and...
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Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Everest is Home again.It was announced that he was released just hours ago, although there is no news about why he was admited. Sir Edmund is 88 and he had...
"The Sherpas (and sherpas) of Everest
It's that time of year again - another Everest season has begun, and the presses are churning. (Be sure to visit Explorer's Web for coverage and information.) For me, I am...
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This is great news...The Snow Leopard, Uncia uncia, is returning to the Khumbu (Everest) Region of Nepal! I first reported on this in my blog on August 10, 2006, citing an article I had read in on Nature.com. It...
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