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Russian climber dies at Camp I of Mount Everest

May 8, 20221037 Views

Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world's highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday. Kostrikin, 55, died at the camp, which is located at an altitude of around 5,360 metres (17,585 feet) during a rotation on the 8,848-metre (29,031 feet) mountain on Saturday, said Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai, an official of Nepal's Department of Tourism. "The Russian climber fell sick at Camp II and died after being brought to the Camp I," Bhattarai told Reuters without giving further details. Camp II on the normal southeast ridge route on Everest is located at a height of around 6,400 metres (20,997 feet). Hiking officials said the body of Kostrikin would be br...

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Everest climbers struggle to return home amid Nepal COVID-19 travel curbs

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June 2, 20211315 Views

Climbers returning from Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks are struggling to find a return flight back home after Nepal banned most air travel to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases, mountaineering operators and hikers said on Wednesday. Most regular international flights are closed through June as a deadly second wave of the coronavirus hit the Himalayan nation tucked between China and India. Nepal issued 742 permits – 408 of those to climbers aspiring to make it to the top of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest – in the April-May climbing season. And hundreds of climbers are now returning from the mountains before the onset of annual monsoon rains. Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, a senior official at Kathmandu-based private firm Seven Summit Treks, said climbers were finding it ...

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Oldest American, fastest woman on Everest return safely

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May 30, 2021820 Views

A retired attorney from Chicago who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest, and a Hong Kong teacher who is now the fastest female climber of the world's highest peak, on Sunday returned safely from the mountain where climbing teams have been struggling with bad weather and a coronavirus outbreak. Arthur Muir, 75, scaled the peak earlier this month, beating the record by another American, Bill Burke, at age 67. Tsang Yin-hung, 45, of Hong Kong scaled the summit from the base camp in 25 hours and 50 minutes, and became the fastest female climber. The record 10 hours and 56 minutes is held by a Sherpa guide, Lakpa Gelu. A climbing accident in 2019, when he hurt his ankle falling off a ladder, did not deter Muir from attempting to scale the peak again. The retired lawyer, ...

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Everest climbing continues despite reports of COVID-19

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May 24, 2021924 Views

A Nepali government official said on Monday that many foreign climbers were continuing their attempts to summit Mount Everest despite reports of a COVID-19 outbreak at the base camp of the world's tallest peak. In April, a Norwegian climber was evacuated from the base camp of the 8,848.86 metres (29,031.69 feet) mountain and flown to Kathmandu where he tested positive for COVID-19. He has since returned home. Lukas Furtenbach of the Austrian Furtenbach Adventures company, evacuated his team from the mountain this month saying there was a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases at the base camp. A group of climbers just before the Everest summit May 23, 2021. Photo: @danielmazur/Twitter "So far we have about one hundred confirmed cases in Everest base camp, confirmed by doctors, by hospit...

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Foreigners return to Mount Everest

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May 11, 20211173 Views

38 climbers reach summit on Tuesday as Nepal battles second COVID-19 wave Foreigners climbed Mount Everest for the first time since Nepal’s government reopened the mountain after it was shut last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, despite recent coronavirus cases at its base camp. Thirty-eight climbers including ten Bahraini and two British mountaineers climbed the world's highest mountain on Tuesday, according to hiking companies. FILE PHOTO: Light illuminates Mount Everest, during sunset in Solukhumbu District also known as the Everest region. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar It comes as a few climbers were evacuated from the Everest base camp in April after they fell sick with COVID-19 symptoms as Nepal battles a devastating second wave of coronaviurs infections. "Twelve foreign...

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Geologist and climber reveals new truths on highest peaks

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May 1, 20211567 Views

Releases memoir timed for 100th anniversary of first Mt. Everest expedition Timed for the 100th anniversary since the first climbers ascended Mount Everest comes the new real-life adventure memoir, The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain’s Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again by Jim Davidson, a critically-acclaimed mountain climber and environmental geologist who was on the mountain’s Camp One in 2015 when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake slammed into the Himalayas—killing 18 people on the mountain and nearly 9,000 others across Nepal and in neighboring countries. According to Davidson, The Next Everest reveals controversial and never-before-shared facts, including: • Future Earthquake Risk: Davidson’s geologic background and in-person evaluation of the earthquake ...

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Slovenian duo scale the tallest chimney in Europe at 360 metres high

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January 27, 20211275 Views

The tower at Trbovlje Power Station used to billow smoke out of its neighbouring chimney from its summit 360 metres into the sky. Now no longer operational, two of the world’s leading climbers in Janja Garnbret and Domen Škofic came together to tackle the tallest chimney in Europe in their native Slovenia. It stands as the highest chimney in Europe but, from 2014, it has not been operational. The route plotted out for Garnbret and Škofic was also the largest artificial climbing route in the world, designed by specialists and IFSC route setters Katja Vidmar and Simon Margon. Venue of the Trbovlje Chimney in Trbovlje, Slovenia // Jakob Schweighofer/Red Bull Content Pool There were 13 pitches to tackle in all, the easiest of which were graded at 7b, while six were graded 8 and abov...