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Video: Everest-Bound Speed Climber Ueli Steck Learns to Fly for an Alps...

Reblogged from Travel Blog - Things to do all around: Ueli Steck is hard to please. The man, known as “the Swiss Machine,” seems insatiable in his quest to push the limits of speed climbing. His latest...

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‘Super Sherpa’ quits Everest

A sherpa who has made it to the summit of Everest a record 21 times has hung up his trekking boots, and revealed that he has always hated climbing. Despite never wanting to reach the summit, Apa Sherpa...

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Everest anniversary: how climbing the world’s highest mountain has changed

Sixty years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest, climber after climber has achieved the feat. But the experience of an Everest climb in 2013 is undoubtedly poles...

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Everest Anniversary – 60 years of climbing

May 29th marks the 60th anniversary of the first known successful expedition to Everest’s peak Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to reach the summit of the world’s tallest peak...

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Wisdom whilst in the Himalayas

The month of May comes with many traditions, from the julep-soaked Kentucky Derby to Memorial Day barbeques. But in the world of high-altitude mountaineering, May means just one thing: Everest Season....

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Young porters “imperil” Nepal’s trekking industry

It is a traditional role using skills passed down through the generations, but young unskilled boys with no knowledge of the mountains are now flocking to become porters in Nepal‘s Himalayas. A Sherpa...

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GREAT MOUNTAINS OF THE WORLD: MT. EVEREST

•••••••• On the eve of the spring 1996 season on Everest, guiding clients for his Mountain Madness firm, Scott Fischer called the South Col route the “Yellow Brick Road,” so sure was he that he had it...

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Everest Trilogy Completed

EDWARDS — More than 3,600 people have climbed Mount Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit first in 1953. About 500 have climbed Lhotse, an adjacent peak that is the world’s...

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Top 10 Mountain Treks: (#10) Gokyo Ri

Reblogged from Adventure before Avarice: Three weeks from now I will be back on the road. On this next trip I'm heading home... as in, I'm heading to the mountains, the place where my soul resides even...

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Raha Moharrak: First Saudi woman to conquer Everest

Climbing the world’s highest mountain is challenge enough, but for Raha Moharrak, it also meant breaking a taboo. The 27-year-old graphic designer is from Saudi Arabia, an ultra-orthodox country which...

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Extreme summits and Kendal Mountain Festival weekend

BFI Southbank marks the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest with a season dedicated to the daring of mountaineering, while the Kendal Mountain Festival comes to the Southbank. BFI Southbank...

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Short Story: Death Zone

Reblogged from Lifein64SquareFeet.com - A Writer's Survival Blog: Death Zone was previously published with the title,  Worth Writing About in Outburst Magazine, Issue #5, 2011, and in Death Zone and...

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Steve Giesecke – A Member of an Elite Club, Climbing Seven Summits

To gain access to this elite club, he survived minus 67-degree temperatures climbing Mount Vinson, an icy 16,050-foot peak in Antarctica. He endured 100-mile-per-hour winds on Mount McKinley. And he...

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Adventurer Mark Jenkins Presents ‘Climbing Everest’ Oct. 1 in Casper

University of Wyoming writer-in-residence Mark Jenkins will present “Climbing Everest” Tuesday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. in Casper College’s Wold Physical Science Building Room 103. The event is free and open...

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Azerbaijani climbers conquer Georgia mountain peaks

By Nazrin Gadimova Azerbaijani climbers have made ​​several ascents of different complexity to the peaks of the Mukhadze, Tikanadze and Rcheulishvili mountains in Georgia, an area which has a complex...

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Lewis Hamilton prepares to tackle his Everest…by climbing the real thing once...

Lewis Hamilton conquered one Everest in winning the Formula One world title five years ago and now he is planning on tackling the real thing. Given Hamilton’s ambitious streak, the 28-year-old is to...

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Climb On: Blind Adventurer Erik Weihenmayer to Speak at EDCUtah Annual Meeting

When blind adventurer Erik Weihenmayer gives the keynote address at EDCUtah’s annual meeting on Nov. 13, he’ll be fresh off a mountain climb in the Peruvian Andes and a 10-day kayaking trip down the...

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13-yr-old adventure freak plans to scale Mt Everest

At 13, S Jaahnavi is unlike any other teenager. Trained in ninjutsu (martial arts), trekking, parasailing, rafting, jummaring, rock climbing, sports climbing etc., it’s not an exaggeration when she...

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Women Climbers | Moving mountains

Debt, disability and societal pressures were but some of the hurdles Indian women faced in 2013 on their quest to conquer Everest One change in Tusi Das’ physical appearance after her ascent of Mt...

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Cancer survivor to climb own Everest

Brendan Johnston, training on Black Mountain for his charity ride in December. Photo: Graham Tidy ELITE cyclist Brendan ”Trekky” Johnston climbed his own mountain when he overcame cancer. Now he plans...

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