Last weekend, almost 60 years after the
first ascent by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay,
fights broke out between three Western climbers and a group of sherpas, at around 7200m on Mount Everest.
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posted by daveje
on Apr 30, 2013 -
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Becoming the All-Terrain Human: [New York Times] "Kilian Jornet Burgada is the most dominating endurance athlete of his generation. In just eight years, Jornet has won more than 80 races, claimed some 16 titles and set at least a dozen speed records, many of them in distances that would require the rest of us to purchase an airplane ticket. He has run across entire landmasses (Corsica) and mountain ranges (the Pyrenees), nearly without pause. He regularly runs all day eating only wild berries and drinking only from streams."
posted by Fizz
on Mar 23, 2013 -
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On March 5 a team of four Polish climbers completed the
first winter ascent of
Broad Peak, one of the world's
8000m mountains. On the descent two of the climbers, Maciej Berbeka and Tomasz Kowalski, ran into problems and were forced to spend the night at 7900m. Despite efforts to establish radio contact and locate the climbers the next morning they were declared missing on March 6. On March 8 expedition leader Krzysztof Wielicki
reported that Berbeka and Kowalski were dead and that the team was heading home.
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posted by edeezy
on Mar 9, 2013 -
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What the final hours of a Mount Everest climb are like, as written by a Canadian medical team last year (photographs enlarge nicely if opened in a new window). The month of May is the only safe window for climbing Sagarmatha, and this week Sherpas are desperately trying to get the route prepped. Journal entries from the mountain during the past day show excited teams awaiting the big push:
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6. The Discovery film crew got some
nice shots last week, too. The climb is not without immense danger -- about
6 die on the mountain every year, and in 2006
David Sharp died right on the trail, raising a firestorm of debate.
posted by crapmatic
on May 5, 2009 -
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