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Geologist and climber reveals new truths on highest peaks

May 1, 20211545 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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Unafraid but cautious: Climbers return to Everest

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March 11, 20211098 Views

Hundreds of climbers are set to return to Mount Everest for the first time next month under strict conditions, government officials and mountaineers said, as the world’s tallest peak reopens after a year closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than 300 foreign climbers were likely to attempt to scale the 8,849-metre (29,031-feet) mountain in the peak climbing season beginning in April, tourism department official Mira Acharya said, compared with a record 381 climbers who attempted the famed summit in the same period in 2019. FILE PHOTO: Light illuminates Mount Everest, during sunset in Solukhumbu District also known as the Everest region. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar “This is ... despite the one-week quarantine requirement and certificate showing the climber had tested negative ...

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Nepal to turn Everest trash into art to highlight mountain’s garbage blight

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January 23, 20211423 Views

Trash collected from Mount Everest is set to be transformed into art and displayed in a nearby gallery, to highlight the need to save the world’s tallest mountain from turning into a dumping site. Used oxygen bottles, torn tents, ropes, broken ladders, cans and plastic wrappers discarded by climbers and trekkers litter the 8,848.86 metre (29,032 feet) tall peak and the surrounding areas. Tommy Gustafsson, project director and a co-founder of the Sagarmatha Next Centre - a visitors’ information centre and waste up-cycling facility - said foreign and local artists will be engaged in creating artwork from waste materials and train locals to turn trash into treasures. “We want to showcase how you can transform solid waste to precious pieces of art … and generate employment and in...

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Climbing mountains to ‘show the world what we can do’

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September 30, 2020649 Views

Eighteen-year old Fatima Sultani gazes at the peak of a mountain near Afghanistan’s capital Kabul after completing a morning climbing session, considering her next challenge. She and her team of nine young Afghan mountaineers, including three women, are hoping to climb Afghanistan’s Mir Samir mountain and after that travel to Nepal to summit the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. Fatima Sultani (C), a member of Hikeventures mountaineering team and her teammates during an exercise on a mountain at the outskirts of Afghan capital Kabul. REUTERS/Mohamamd Ismail “My main goal is to show the world that Afghan women are strong and can do the most challenging work that men do,” she said. “When I became aware that women from foreign countries come here to conquer high peaks I thought ....

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Malavath Poorna’s Everest climb: Youngest women to reach summit

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July 17, 2020963 Views

Malavath Poorna is the youngest female in the world to reach the summit- Mt. Everest, a dream for all adventure seekers around the world. At 6.30 in the morning of 25th May 2014, she unfurled the Indian tricolour at the highest point on this planet. She was just 13 years and 11 months at that time. Born of a very poor family of agricultural labourers, Poorna is also the youngest Indian to reach the summit. In fact she was just one month older then the youngest person ever to climb the Mount Everest successfully, who was a US boy. A ninth standard student at Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Educational Institutions Society's school, Poorna struggled against all odds to be on top. Hailing from a background, where none of her villager folk have ever seen snow in their lives, Poorna achieved the...