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Professional skier and alpinist, Chris Davenport of Aspen, Colo., completed his quest to ski four of the highest and most famous peaks in the Alps: Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, Monte Rosa and the Eiger. Davenport, who famously skied all 54 of Colorado_s 14 thousand foot peaks last year, completed...
Scotland's oldest mountaineering club for women will today mark its 100th anniversary by climbing one of the country's most famous peaks in costumes from throughout its century. The Ladies Scottish Climbing Club (LSCC) was founded in 1908 by three middle class women frustrated at being excluded...
KATHMANDU: Nepal will celebrate 'International Everest Day' on May 29, the date mountaineers Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Edmund Hillary scaled the world's highest peak. It was some 55 years ago on the same date that the two conquered the 8,848-metre peak for the first time. Nepal Tourism Board...
"The day I climbed Mount Everest was the day I died," writes veteran mountaineer Lincoln Hall in his adventure memoir, "Dead Lucky." "If I was dead on the evening of May 25 (2006) but alive on the morning of May 26, what happened?" Lincoln Hall is shown near the summit of Mount Everest in 2006....
All of this pales in comparison to the obscene madness that has now become the fate of Base Camp at Mount Everest. The 8,000-meter peaks of the Himalayas have become the unfortunate repositories for what is repugnant about human nature with very little innate goodness surviving. Dying climbers...
Rome, May 15 - Three Italian mountaineers on Thursday completed the installation of the world's highest climate station, on Mt Everest. Working in extremely tough weather conditions, Silvio Mondinelli, Michele Enzio and Marco Confortola screwed in the final pieces of the station 8,000m above sea...
Chinese mountaineers who brought the Olympic flame to the top of Mt. Qomolangma said here on Thursday that they are willing to become earthquake relief workers. Chinese mountaineering team coach Wang Yongfeng, back to Beijing in early morning with 10 other climbers, some of whom scaled the...
In the 95 years since Walter Harper became the first person to stand on North America's rooftop, 16,769 climbers have enjoyed the view from the top of Mount McKinley. Tourists take in Mt. McKinley from the Eilson Visitor Center in Denali National Park in Alaska. Mount McKinley in Denali National...
Lou Kasischke has a gentle voice and a kind face. He'll be among the survivors featured tonight on “Storm Over Everest,” a PBS “Frontline” documentary by David Breashears about the ferocious blizzard that killed eight people on the world's highest mountain. A noted filmmaker and mountaineer,...
Aosta, May 13 - The Italian mountaineer Cristina Castagna on Monday became the first Italian woman to climb Makalu in Nepal, the fifth highest mountain in the world. Vicenza-born Castagna, 30, climbed without oxygen tanks and took 11 hours to reach the summit of the Himalayan mountain known as...
