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Mountaineer “Nims” sets three new world records in just five days

October 12, 2024197 Views

On 4th October 2024 the British-Nepali mountaineer, former Gurkha and UKSF, stood on the summit of Shishapangma with legendry Nepali climber Mingma G and his rope fixing team. They both completed their missions to climb the 14 Peaks without supplementary oxygen. Nims becomes the fastest person to climb all the 14 Peaks without any supplementary oxygen in 2 years 4 months and 28 days – whilst leading and guiding clients, as well as the fastest (and only) person to achieve the 14 peaks feat both with and without oxygen, in just 5 years, 5 months and 12 days (23rd April 2019 to 4th October 2024). Nimsdai on Shishapangma on Oct 4th 2024 where he completes his 14 Peaks No O2 mission in record time. Credit Nimsdai He then returned with a summit plan of October ...

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British adventurer breaks record for highest-altitude bike ride

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September 25, 2024124 Views

Sixty-year-old British adventurer Neil Laughton has set a new record for the highest-altitude cycle ride after pedalling a fold-up bike on top of a 7,246-metre Nepalese peak. Laughton, a former Royal Marine Commando, rode and carried his Brompton bike to the snowbound summit of Putha Huinchuli over several days alongside Sherpa Nima Kanchla. Neil Laughton and his Nepali climbing partner Sirdar Nima Kanchha Sherpa at the summit of a Himalayan mountain. He then completed a short cycle ride to beat the previous world record set at 7,211 metres in 2009. "To get the Guinness World Record I had to cycle 20 metres (at the highest point)," Laughton told Cycling Weekly. "At the top there was lots of deep snow so it was hard to get any great momentum particularly while we were near t...

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Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage

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July 7, 2024204 Views

Cleanup not easy, likely to take few years The highest camp on the world’s tallest mountain is littered with garbage that is going to take years to clean up, according to a Sherpa who led a team that worked to clear trash and dig up dead bodies frozen for years near Mount Everest’s peak. The Nepal government-funded team of soldiers and Sherpas removed 11 tons (24,000 pounds) of garbage, four dead bodies and a skeleton from Everest during this year’s climbing season. Garbage collected en route Mount Everest, at a facility operated by Agni Ventures, an agency that manages recyclable waste, in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, June 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Sanjog Manandhar) Ang Babu Sherpa, who led the team of Sherpas, said there could be as much as 40-50 tons (88,000-110,000 pounds) of garba...

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UK mountaineer logs most Everest climbs by a foreigner

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May 12, 2024322 Views

A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday. Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal's Department of Tourism, said Britain's Kenton Cool, 50, and Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the 18th and 29th time, respectively. They were on separate expeditions guiding their clients. FILE PHOTO: Water forms under Nepal's Khumbu glacier as the ice melts in this undated handout image. Alex Treadway/ICIMOD/Handout via REUTERS "He just keeps going and going... amazing guy!" Garrett Madison of the U.S.-based expedition organising company Madison Mountaineering said of the Nepali climber. Madison had teamed up with Kami Rita to climb t...

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Nepal women keep the art of traditional instruments alive despite past stigma

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March 9, 2024482 Views

As a child, Shanti Chaudhari was scolded by her parents for standing too close to a group of musicians playing the naumati baja, Nepal’s nine traditional instruments, because they were identified with the Damai, part of the lowest caste that was formerly known as “untouchables.” Chaudhari, now 41, eventually overcame her family’s opposition and today performs in a band of her own called Shrijanshil Mahila Sanstha, or the Self-Reliant Women’s Group. Her husband, who also was initially against her participation, now supports her musical pursuit and cooks meals when she gets home late from a performance. Members of Shrijanshil Mahila Sanstha, or the Self-Reliant Women’s Group, plays at a wedding in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Bal Kumari B...

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Nepal urged to tighten climbing rules to cut Everest deaths

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June 4, 2023803 Views

Weak climbers being led up Mount Everest by expedition operators with insufficient experience are causing problems, a veteran mountain guide said on Sunday, after one of the deadliest climbing seasons in years on the world's highest mountain. At least 12 climbers died and five are missing and feared dead on the 8,849 metre (29,032 foot) Mount Everest during this year's main climbing season that has just ended, the deadliest since an earthquake triggered an avalanche that killed 18 people in 2015. "Weakest clients with less experienced operators is part of the problem,” Guy Cotter, 69, a noted guide from the New Zealand who has climbed Everest five times, said in the Nepali capital, Kathmandu. "Clients should have minimum climbing standards with proven prior ascents before com...

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Nepali sherpa saves Malaysian climber in rare Everest ‘death zone’ rescue

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June 2, 20231368 Views

A Malaysian climber narrowly survived after a Nepali sherpa guide hauled him down from below the summit of Mount Everest in a "very rare" high altitude rescue, a government official said on Wednesday. Gelje Sherpa, 30, was guiding a Chinese client to the 8,849 metre (29,032 feet) Everest summit on May 18 when he saw the Malaysian climber clinging to a rope and shivering from extreme cold in the area called the "death zone", where temperatures can dip to minus 30 degrees Celsius (-22F) or lower. Ngima Tashi Sherpa walks as he carries a Malaysian climber while rescuing him from the death zone above camp four at Everest, Nepal, May 18, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video. Gelje Sherpa/Handout via REUTERS Gelje hauled the climber 600 metres (1,900 feet) down from th...

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Sherpa Kami Rita scales Everest twice in a week, for record 28th time

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May 23, 2023916 Views

A Nepali sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest for a record 28th time on Tuesday, an official said, completing his second ascent in just a week, as the toll in this year's climbing season rose to 11. Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, reached the 8,849-metre (29,032-feet) summit by the traditional southeast ridge route, said Nepali tourism official Bigyan Koirala, following his 27th climb last week. Pioneered by the first summiteers, New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, the route remains the most popular path to the world’s tallest peak. FILE PHOTO: Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa waves upon his arrival after climbing Mount Everest for the 24th time in 2019, setting a record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 2...

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Mount Everest is losing snow

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May 21, 2023864 Views

Britain’s record holding climber says highest peak is now 'dry, more rocky' Mount Everest is losing snow and turning "dry and rocky", British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said on Saturday. The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the first time in 2004, said the giant mountain appears to be drying now. British climber Kenton Cool, 49, waves towards the media personnel, upon his arrival at the airport, as he returns after completing his 17th ascent of Mount Everest, which is the most by any foreign climber, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar "If you go back to early mid-2000s there used to be a lot of snow," he told Reuters in an interview in ...

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Nepali sherpa gets back the Everest record with 27th ascent

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May 18, 2023974 Views

Briton Kenton Cool makes 17th ascent for a record of most summits by a foreigner Just three days after his earlier record of ascents to Mount Everest was equalled by a fellow Nepali sherpa, Kami Rita again got the record to his own name by scaling the highest peak in the world for the 27th time on Wednesday, a government official and his hiking company have said. Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, scaled the 8,849 metre (29,032-foot) mountain early in the morning along the traditional southeast ridge route, guiding a foreign climber. FILE PHOTO: Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa waves upon his arrival after climbing Mount Everest for the 24th time in 2019, setting a record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2019. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar "Ye...