Red Bull – Page 4 – आवारा मुसाफिर

Skiing down a towering 6,178m peak in Karakoram

May 10, 2021545 Views

K2 conqueror Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to climb the towering 6,178m Yawash Sar II peak in Pakistan before skiing down. The ski mountaineer summited K2 in 2018 without oxygen and skied from peak to base without removing his skis – a seemingly impossible challenge which had never been completed before. In 2018, a Polish expedition also set out for Yawash Sar II to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Polish independence by reaching the summit but plans were thwarted by avalanche conditions. This time, Bargiel and his Karakoram Ski Expedition team (with partner Jędrzej Baranowski , Darek Załuski, Kuba Gzela and Bartłomiej Pawlikowski) set off into the Karakoram mountain range 10 days before making history. Andrzej Bargiel seen skiing down Yawash Sar II during his ...

खबरनामाघटनाएं

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

AWARA MUSAFIR BUREAU

January 27, 20211324 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...