The BBC reported Wednesday that a panel of mountaineering experts and Nepali officials produced a proposal to block inexperienced climbers and unethical mountaineering operators from the mountain.
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Mountaineering still offers the same thrills it always has done.
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Negotiating the cliffs of social mountaineering she studies rich girls.
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Shortly after graduating, while backpacking in Kenya, he discovered mountaineering.
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A team of 30 people has cleared about 5.2 tonnes of household waste, 2.3 tonnes of human faeces, and one tonne of mountaineering trash in the cleanup by Tibetan mountaineering officials, the paper said.
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He spent every weekend rock climbing with the Arizona Mountaineering Club.
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But since the 1990s, the pinnacle of mountaineering has become accessible.
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The threesome eventually enrolled in a Washington mountaineering school in 2006.
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That prevented him from ever making mountaineering pay in a big way.
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The town already hosts what are arguably North America's two biggest ski mountaineering races, the Grand Traverse in March, a backcountry ski race from Crested Butte to Aspen, and the Audi Power of Four Ski Mountaineering Race in February.
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In the earliest days of mountaineering, this meant literally hacking stairsteps into it.
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Herschel's mountaineering spin on the classic backpack features two leather straps with buckles.
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Furthermore, when shit hits the fan, these climbers lack the mountaineering skills to improvise.
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In terms of mountaineering, the news media tends to focus ad nauseam on Everest.
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The 64-year-old French mountaineering brand Moncler just debuted its first eyewear collection.
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The 23-year-old French mountaineering brand Moncler just debuted its first eyewear collection.
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In between his challenges, he gives inspirational talks to students and guides mountaineering trips.
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The couple met in 2011 on a five-week mountaineering course in Patagonia, Chile.
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" Climbers nicknamed her the "living archive" and the "Sherlock Holmes of the mountaineering world.
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Returning to Yosemite, he founded the Yosemite Mountaineering School and Guide Service in 1969.
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Experience with winter camping and mountaineering is just as important, if not more important.
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Physicians with mountaineering medical expertise and volunteers staff a medical tent during each climbing season.
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We're also covering an alarming new study about rising seas and a new mountaineering record.
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But that changed with the growth of mountaineering in the West as an extreme sport.
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If you like to read about people's perseverance, mountaineering memoirs is the genre for you.
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"Mountaineering teaches a very important lesson, which is live to fight another day," he said.
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"Everything is possible," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, a former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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Mr. Bridwell's wife of 21992 years, Peggy, said his interest in mountaineering started with birds.
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Steck will be remembered as the climber who ushered mountaineering into its latest modern age.
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Some items were unrelated to the crash: a fragment of a ski; a mountaineering boot.
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Dex isn't the end of the story when it comes to performance enhancement in mountaineering.
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"Hiking and mountaineering are very significant to our family culture," Eva's mother, Amie Harper, tells PEOPLE.
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For her sleuthing, Ms. Hawley was temporarily banned from reporting on mountaineering by the Nepali government.
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Breckenridge will offer an Ascent Series of ski mountaineering races on Wednesdays throughout the winter season.
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A Polish mountaineering commission assailed Bielecki: You violated the brotherhood of the rope and deserted comrades.
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But the first big clean-up operation was done only in 1996 by Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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"This is a big loss to mountaineering worldwide," Mr. Sherpa, 26, said in a telephone interview.
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The availability of Steck's feats on YouTube and Vimeo helped bring mountaineering out of the doldrums.
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My second hobby is cardio, whether it be cycling with a street bike or ski mountaineering.
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Climbing regulator the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) is sending a separate expedition of 12 on Wednesday.
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For anyone into the extreme outdoors (backcountry skiing, mountaineering, climbing etc.) a GoPro is a no-brainer.
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Chamonix, the home of mountaineering, makes almost as much money in summer as it does in winter.
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Up against the mountaineering excess of a Jeep ad, you can counter-sell with performance or sexiness.
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Trekking watches are designed to let users go mountaineering in the deepest, darkest wildernesses of New Jersey.
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Rates for the cruises start at $43,885 a person, and the mountaineering expedition is an additional $5,250.
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In Utah, Utah Ski Mountaineering, a nonprofit group, compiles uphill policies at ski areas throughout the state.
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Over salamis and cheeses and a prodigious amount of wine, we talk of long-ago mountaineering adventures.
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Mountaineering is the ultimate team pursuit, and above 8,000 meters everyone should be on the same team.
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She was diagnosed with cancer four years ago, but that did not stop her from mountaineering, it said.
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More Pakistani-sponsored expeditions followed in a kind of oropolitics, or the use of mountaineering for political purposes.
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"Sherpa" originates in mountaineering, the term for a guide who helps an inexperienced climber ascend a difficult climb.
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"An old mountaineering adage is, if you want to keep warm hands, wear a hat," Dr. Tipton said.
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We reconstruct it on Trisha's roof in SoHo with an intelligent group that includes a mountaineering hot dog.
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"Everything is possible," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, who recently stepped down as president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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The many adventures to be had outside of the lodge include sledding, helicopter tours, skiing, mountaineering, glacier trekking ...
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The Indian liaison officer who is among the missing is from the Indian Mountaineering foundation, based in New Delhi.
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This is to clambering up monkey bars what mountaineering is to hiking, a natural human pursuit pushed to extremes.
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Another concern is garbage which has escalated in recent years with the advent of budget mountaineering companies, Kelly said.
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The property has good access to the Highlands, with hill walking, mountaineering, and skiing all available to the north.
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This was when he developed an intense fondness for his mountaineering guide, a much older man of sixty-five.
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Do you feel like the spirit of mountaineering is being damaged by the consumer culture that now surrounds Everest?
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There, an agent of Stalin's, Ramón Mercader, got into Trotsky's study with a mountaineering pick hidden under his clothes.
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Still, she claims to have no interest in the big walls of Yosemite, to say nothing of serious mountaineering.
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My other resolutions — I had a long list — included speed dating and taking a hike with a mountaineering club.
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And with 1.2m members, the Deutscher Alpenverein (DAV), founded in 1869, is the biggest mountaineering sports association in the world.
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But first they have to jump from a building more than 150 feet tall and do some treacherous synchronized mountaineering.
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Sherpa people became world-famous for their mountaineering prowess, and their role in helping foreigners summit Mount Everest for decades.
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Government officials are now considering requiring all climbers to submit proof of mountaineering experience and a certificate of good health.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency has set forth explicit rules on what does and doesn't count as doping in mountaineering.
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The global climbing community has lost a "great friend", said Ang Tshering Sherpa, a former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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Instead, the mountaineering-style pack has a top flap that closes with magnetic snaps at the end of long leather straps.
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Now, Venezuela's hyperinflation and rampant crime make it too dangerous to travel with the bundles of dollars needed by mountaineering scientists.
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Min Bahadur Sherchan died of a heart attack at base camp on Saturday afternoon, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA).
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Mountain biking has suspension systems, rock climbing has sticky rubber (stay tuned), mountaineering has crampons, and downhill skiing has releasable bindings.
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I joined the mountaineering club at school, which kept me busy, and when I wasn't doing that I started oil painting.
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An eight-member team from the Pakistani mountaineering company Karakorum Expeditions began a new ground search on Friday despite Gavan's evidence.
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"Since his record was broken, he wanted to regain it," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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The favored mountaineering style today is Alpine, which is to say, going solo or with a partner, and without fixed ropes.
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David said that in mountaineering, cairns were used to mark the path when it was difficult to know where to go.
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Yet it has already stirred pride in the Nepali climbing community and made a dramatic statement about achieving independent mountaineering goals.
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When Nepalis swap tales of the country's mountaineering legends, a fond mention is also reserved for the so-called MS Ladies.
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Whether or not you consider oxygen as a form of doping, it's undeniable that mountaineering has a history of drug use.
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" Bhatt said another mountaineering team would be joining the ground search on Monday and remained "hopeful that the climbers are still alive.
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"The average climber that comes to Denali is focused on a one-time trip," says Tucker Chenoweth, a mountaineering ranger at Denali.
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The job of keeping Holland's team safe belongs to Brian Rougeux, a former mountaineering guide who has worked in both polar regions.
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In the South Island, I cycled to the base of Aoraki Mount Cook, the mountain where Sir Edmund Hillary's mountaineering career began.
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The police in Pune are also investigating the pair based on a complaint from mountaineering associations, the Press Trust of India reported.
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But climate change threatens the ski industry, which, along with mountaineering, has transformed Chamonix from a poor village into a gilded retreat.
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The Grand Traverse is a steep alpine considered one of the best routes in the country for experienced climbers with previous mountaineering experience.
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Many of the climbers had mementos from those they loved – the ashes of a friend, or the mountaineering axe of a fallen comrade.
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The force's Twitter page, which features ample evidence of its members' epic mountaineering, rock-climbing and skiing skills, recently has been hyping #InternationalYogaDay2018.
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In probably the most famous nonfiction movie about mountaineering, Touching the Void (2003), the climber Simon Yates describes the appeal of his sport.
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But the head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said only climbers with adequate training and experience were cleared to attempt the highest peaks.
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Ice climbing as a sport of ascending waterfalls as though they were granite faces started as a subproblem of alpine climbing and mountaineering.
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"On the mountain, everything is weighed against the risk of death," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, the former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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Thomas served two tours in Iraq, and her husband, Chris, who died in an avalanche while mountaineering after leaving war behind, served more.
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Mountaineering expert Garrett Madison has made a career out of guiding ultra rich adrenaline junkies to the top of the world's highest mountains.
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In "Man Walking Down the Side of a Building" (April 1970) a dancer, rigged with mountaineering equipment, descended seven stories perpendicular to the ground.
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If you're interested in Indian military history, mountaineering, or if you're a journalist who likes to write about obscure war comics, then I would.
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Wall and his collaborators shared the news of Titan's latest winter mountaineering prospect at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas this week.
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He became known for his "social mountaineering," as two of his employees put it, and often threw parties attended by celebrities and minor royals.
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Conde Nast Traveler reported that over 8 tons of trash was found last spring, including "a startling amount of human feces and mountaineering equipment."
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As anyone familiar with the directors' 2015 mountaineering movie, "Meru," will know, heart-stopping camera angles and crisp, vertigo-inducing vistas are a given.
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Kul Bahadur Gurung, the general secretary of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, which was involved in retrieving the bodies, said some of them were unrecognizable.
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Several government officials said they were leaning toward requiring all climbers to submit proof of mountaineering experience and a verifiable certificate of good health.
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The hike is a fourteen-mile round trip, and, while it requires no mountaineering abilities, the guidebooks do not lie in calling it strenuous.
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The British Mountaineering Council reckons there are at least 248 public climbing walls in Britain, a number that has risen by 30% since 2010.
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The trekking pole loop worked just as well for a mountaineering axe and the pack itself has enough space to be used year-round.
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She had received "the best possible English upper-class upbringing" and had met his father through a shared interest in mountaineering, Mr. Howard wrote.
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The body was not surrounded by any of the durable apparatus of alpinism – no boots or karabiners suggested there had been a mountaineering accident.
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With Bhattacharjee's help, we spoke to other Indian climbers and government officials, and went to meetings with the mountaineering clubs of the deceased men.
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For one, mountaineering is a unique sport: the athletes aren't competing against one another, at least not exactly, and there are no official rules.
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I aspire to go deeper into mountaineering and pursue big wall rock climbing and alpinism, hopefully securing a position somewhere remote as an alpine guide.
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We'd arranged for some friends to have a car waiting for us outside the prison and pass us a mountaineering rope to scale the walls.
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Mountaineering in the early 20th century was dominated by gentlemen who had been to Oxford or Cambridge and had a hefty supply of family money.
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In this way, high-altitude mountaineering can be considereda form of dark tourism– when people pay to travel to sites of death, disaster or atrocity.
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It all adds up to this: You should consider this phone only if you really like its capabilities related to hiking, mountaineering and similar activities.
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" There has been a dramatic increase in visitors to Kebnekaise in recent years, he said, adding, "It's popular even among people without a mountaineering background.
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He wrote a dozen books on mountaineering, many of them considered definitive guides to the terrain of the continent's best-known and least accessible peaks.
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But try as mountaineering might to masquerade as a traditional endurance sport, the risks remain, increasing as gear is stripped away to the bare minimum.
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But when said garment could be the difference between life and death during a mountaineering expedition, you really shouldn't worry over a few (hundred) dollars.
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"The reason I love mountaineering is that it doesn't matter what you take," Jelle Veyt said as he relaxed in his tent at base camp.
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Of the seven bodies airlifted from a mountainface, only two have been identified - Chetan Pandey from the Indian Mountaineering Foundation and Ruth McCance from Australia.
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The ensemble featured slim-fit moto jeans, fringed cowboy gloves, a tricolor wool knit sweater, a navy bandana and brown suede mountaineering boots with red laces.
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The east face of Howse Peak is remote and an exceptionally difficult climb, with mixed rock and ice routes requiring advanced alpine mountaineering skills, officials said.
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"This was a man-made disaster that may have been minimized with better management of the teams," Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said Monday.
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To identify the most common difficulties experienced while mountaineering, the study team searched a medical database for studies of injuries and illnesses among climbers and hikers.
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A panel consisting of Nepali officials and members of the mountaineering community has reportedly produced a proposal that seeks to bar inexperienced climbers from the mountain.
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"He will not be allowed to climb any mountain peak in Nepal for 10 years under our mountaineering rules," said Kamal Parajuli, a Nepali tourism official.
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Filmed by legendary mountaineering cinematographer Renan Ozturk, Mountain is an essay-style documentary with minimal dialogue and a rich, sweeping soundtrack from the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
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Some people are willing to take medical risks for the pleasures of mountaineering; some people are willing to take medical risks for the pleasures of eating.
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Whether they're big wave surfing, mountaineering, desert running, BASE jumping or free diving, more people are chasing an adrenaline high and sometimes dying in the process.
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"Her legacy in mountaineering will inspire generations of young women in the state," said Naveen Patnaik, the chief minister of Ms. Dash's home state of Odisha.
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At 32, he has built a considerable mountaineering reputation, although he cannot afford to give up working as a barista in the old quarter of Krakow.
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It is difficult not to make the assumption that Steck's elite stature encouraged the hostile exchange: a clash of the old and new worlds of mountaineering.
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Richard Forbes, the president of the Otago Tramping and Mountaineering Club, said he was with a group of hikers that went to the Routeburn Track last weekend.
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The east face of Howse Peak is a remote and an exceptionally difficult climb, with mixed rock and ice routes requiring advanced alpine mountaineering skills, officials said.
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However, Gyanendra Shrestha from the Nepal Tourism Board and Ang Tshering Sherpa, the President of Nepal Mountaineering Association, disputed Mosedale's suggestion that the "Hillary Step" has disappeared.
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In 1975, Tabei, an extraordinary Japanese climber, conquered mountaineering at 35-years-old when she became the first woman to climb the world's highest mountain, Mt. Everest.
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According to the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, ice climbing is an extremely technical activity that requires core strength, well-thought-out strategy, and "nerves of steel."
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Amit Chowdhury, an official at the Indian Mountaineering Federation who is helping to coordinate search efforts with Indian forces, said operations had been hindered by bad weather.
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Though only in his early 40s, he's written four intrepid and intelligent books about mountaineering, tramping, nature and landscape, including "The Old Ways" (2012) and "Landmarks" (2016).
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The eldest of seven sisters, Khumalo grew up with a love of adventure that her mother encouraged, enjoying hiking and camping - activities that eventually led to mountaineering.
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His father, a former Rhodes Scholar who had studied anthropology, worked in a variety of capacities while devoting much of his time to rock climbing and mountaineering.
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This background—a war provoked by mountaineering—and the logistical nightmare of keeping troops supplied on the glacier is the most interesting part of Siachen: The Cold War.
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The government banned an Indian couple from mountaineering in Nepal for 10 years last year after they faked a photograph to show them atop the world's tallest peak.
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Chin's 2015 mountaineering documentary Meru, about the first ascent of a particularly difficult peak in the Indian Himalayas induced similar terror in audiences and was a critical darling.
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By hiking up the mountaineering fee and bolstering requirements for permit applicants, the country could still effectively bar naive climbers and operators from the slopes of Mount Everest.
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Ride the ropeway to the summit to admire sky-high views, then tour the museum's exhibits dedicated to the history of mountaineering and its trailblazing pioneers (admission, €230).
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I borrowed a mountaineering harness, clipped in, and made my way to the bank, where the team's leader, Larry Smith, was conferring with a pair of graduate students.
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Mr. Landgraf, an Austrian builder, also died on May 23 on his way down from the summit, Kobler & Partner, a mountaineering company based in Switzerland, said in a statement.
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Ang Tshering Sherpa, the former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, estimated that the bodies of at least a third of all who have died on Everest remain there.
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Hawarden Journal HAWARDEN, Wales — Flitting from the origins of mountaineering to the writing skills of recent archbishops, the bookish talk at the breakfast table seemed to suit the setting.
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The early morning escapade in which activists used mountaineering helmets, ropes and shackles prompted the Paris police chief to call an emergency meeting where the new security measures were decided.
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They made that into a tote bag with high-end Austrian mountaineering hardware for the buckles and a version of Ikea's giant shopping bag with custom-made webbing for straps.
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Although the sport of mountaineering was pioneered by westerners, Sherpas hold the world record for most Everest ascents—Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa both summited the peak 21 times.
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But the Western Mountaineering Highlite is a great choice if you're planning to log serious miles, but prefer to focus more on the scenery than the ache in your back.
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In a corner, Hicks had piled bales of brightly colored fibre—orange, yellow—into a bulbous formation that called up all kinds of associations, from mountaineering to McDonald's ball pits.
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Her husband works as a mountaineering guide and has summited Everest (29,035 feet) nine times, not to mention Cho Oyu (the world's sixth-highest mountain, at 26,864 feet) 12 times.
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And since there is no government traffic cop high on the mountain, the task of deciding when groups get to attempt their final ascent is left up to mountaineering companies.
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He'd already knocked off six of the seven arduous channel crossings that make up the so-called Oceans Seven, open water swimming's answer to climbing the Seven Summits of mountaineering.
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The cause of Mr. Sherchan's death was not immediately clear, but Gyanendra Shrestha, a government mountaineering official at the Everest base camp, said it might have been a heart attack.
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Helly Hansen, currently owned by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, sells clothes and gear for sailing, skiing, mountaineering and hiking at its own stores as well as retailers like Nordstrom.
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Stop by the Maison de la Presse, a cozy bookstore near the town center, to stock up on route maps, ski guides and mountaineering literature in both French and English.
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"The mountains in Nepal are unique, and it's always better for climbers to go with guides," said the official, Santa Bir Lama, who is president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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This is partly because don't have any way to test for drug use, and partly because even if they did, they have no official authority over mountaineering in the region.
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However, it has also made the mountain accessible to far more climbers, many of whom lack serious mountaineering experience and try to make up for this deficit by leaning on technology.
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An extra-detailed and slightly bigger take on the Little America, the mountaineering-inspired Retreat Offset backpack is decked out in dark denim with off-white accents and a drawstring closure.
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"For the first time, an #IndianArmy Mountaineering Expedition Team has sited Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti'" it said in a tweet, not explaining how a mythical beast could leave footprints.
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During the summer mountaineering season this year, some climbers said the Hillary Step - a near vertical rock formation below the summit - had collapsed, though the Nepal government has rebutted those claims.
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The students were part of a mountaineering club and had reportedly been taking part in a climbing event when local police received a call about the avalanche at 9:20 a.m.
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A Norwegian mountaineering company isn't the most obvious choice to make a great summer running shirt—and, come to think of it, the Bitihorn doesn't sound like a great running shirt.
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"He was walking down to the Everest Base Camp, and I was suspicious of him as he was walking with all his mountaineering dress even below all the tents," he said.
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When Roche first became interested he had no mountaineering experience, so he enlisted the services of a guide to take him onto the Bossons glacier, where much of the wreckage lay.
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But no ice axes are required to tour the Aiguille du Midi complex where you can browse exhibits on the history of mountaineering and the geology of the Mont Blanc massif.
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Hugh Logan, a former chief of conservation for the government who now runs a mountaineering club, worries it would cost too much to employ staff to take money from hikers at entrances.
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If you take it to a mountaineering expedition, or if you work at a dirty, dusty construction site, the chances of it kicking the bucket are lower than probably any other phone.
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Actually, Taylor hadn't even heard of Makalu before an email from his mountaineering club arrived in his inbox, announcing that the British Armed Forces was seeking a photographer to document the trek.
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From within America's mountaineering circles sprang two of the country's greatest contributions to world culture — national parks, which Wallace Stegner called "the best idea we ever had," and the modern environmental movement.
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I spoke with two climbers hoping to become the first Greek women to complete the "Seven Summits" – climbing the highest mountain on each continent, one of the most popular challenges in mountaineering.
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An unusual figure in the world of elite mountaineering, Mr. Clinch was a tall, somewhat gangly man whose slight build was not in the hardy athletic mold of a world-class climber.
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On the bus to work, I'd read Wikipedia articles about legendary mountaineering accidents until I knew every detail of what went wrong (never attempt to summit when the light is fading, guys).
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Climbing Chimborazo can be done in about two weeks, with a one- or two-day hike after acclimatization, according to Todd Burleson, president of Alpine Ascents International, a mountaineering company based in Seattle.
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Or just head straight to the Matterhorn Museum, an underground exhibition space where you can learn about the history of Zermatt and the development of mountaineering in the area (entry, 10 Swiss francs).
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They were high in the stands at the Coliseum when they came upon Dave Kaval, president of the Oakland Athletics, who was mountaineering up, step by step, from field level to the nosebleeds.
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The tallest mountain in the world has made an impression on generations of climbers: "Everyone has a piece of Everest in their hearts," said Suze Kelly, the general manager of mountaineering company Adventure Consultants.
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He began his mountaineering career in the British army in the late 60s, and eventually began training his comrades in the skills necessary to survive in some of the most treacherous mountains in the world.
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It follows the deaths of 11 climbers on Mount Everest this year, amid extraordinary images of queues of people waiting to get to the summit, prompting fresh concerns over the increased commercialization of mountaineering expeditions.
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Three Indian citizens, who all belonged to the same climbing group, one Australian, one Dutch citizen and one Sherpa died in the 2016 climbing season, said Gyanendra Shrestha of the Nepal Tourism Department's Mountaineering section.
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Garrett Madison of the U.S. based Madison Mountaineering company that sponsors climbers to Mount Everest said many were not "well qualified or prepared climbers" and were without the support necessary to ascend and descend safely.
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The Tibetan base camp accumulated over 8 tons of waste, including human feces and mountaineering equipment, thanks in part to the flow of tourists who could reach the Tibeten side of the mountain by car.
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In mountaineering circles, this quest is known as the Explorers Grand Slam, an ambitious, if not insane feat that has been accomplished by 22 people since David Hempleman-Adams first pulled it off in 21.
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Santa Bir Lama, the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, an independent climbing group that manages Everest and helped draft the new safety regulations, said Nepal's financial desperation was one major reason behind the delay.
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Walking and tourism groups like Mountaineering Ireland are relying on the same principle of "permissive access" to develop new foot trails and improve existing ones in other scenic but privately owned shore and mountain areas.
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Climbers usually spend several weeks on Everest acclimatizing and preparing for summit bids, but compressing that into five days is very challenging and risky, said Shanta Bir Lama, the chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
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You can book the entire place for $25,000 a night (with a three-night minimum stay), which includes helicopter shuttle service, a private concierge, gourmet dining, and activities such as sledding, glacier trekking, and mountaineering.
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As such, they'll do anything to make sure that their time and money aren't wasted—and because they lack the mountaineering experience to know better, they turn to dex as a kind of chemical guarantee.
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And we didn't know, we didn't have the tools, we didn't have any mountaineering experience, we hadn't been in the snow before, we didn't know what to do to survive, we were not prepared for it.
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After graduating with a degree in English literature from Showa Women's University in Tokyo, she abandoned her plans to teach, worked at several jobs to support her climbing and then devoted herself full time to mountaineering.
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He could also be barred from the country for five years or from mountaineering in Nepal for up to 10 years, while facing jail time if he fails to pay the fine, the Nepali authorities said.
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And once in a while, he lands a one-of-a-kind piece like the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Compressor Chronograph 2, a model that Mr. Koo described as one of the best "mountaineering watches" ever created.
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TOKYO — Seven teenagers from a high school mountaineering club and a teacher died in an avalanche on Monday in an area of northeastern Japan that had been blanketed by unusually heavy spring snows, the authorities said.
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The team's opening and closing ceremony uniforms, designed by Ralph Lauren, nod to iconic symbols of American fashion—jeans, wool sweater, mountaineering boots, and brown suede explorer gloves—while prioritizing warmth in the chilly South Korean winter.
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White Mountaineering returned with a trapper-tinged collection called Trailblazer, and Coach celebrated doughty American archetypes like Kit Carson with a succession of patched leather jackets, lumberjack shirts, bandannas and bucket hats virtually bristling with flinty resourcefulness.
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"Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting and the dead bodies that remained buried all these years are now becoming exposed," former Nepal Mountaineering Association President Ang Tshering Sherpa told the BBC.
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To gain admission at that time, a young climber had to demonstrate technical prowess, sleep outside on a mountain ledge (known as a bivouac), pass written tests and show a command of mountaineering history, art and literature.
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The students were from Otawara High School, which has one of the top school mountaineering clubs in this mountain-filled nation, having won the Tochigi prefectural title for competitive climbing eight years running, according to its website.
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Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, who is in touch with climbers at Base Camp, said in Kathmandu that, weather permitting, the route from the South Col to the summit would be fixed on Wednesday.
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He kickflips down to the food court, slaps open his mountaineering rucksack, thwacks it down on the counter and drawls, "Fill 'em up" to the man in a paper hat and mesh beard net at the takeaway stand.
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"Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting and the dead bodies that remained buried all these years are now becoming exposed," Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, told BBC.
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The bottom line: Nepal is home to 8 of the world's 10 highest peaks and mountaineering is vital to the country's tourism industry, with $5 million flowing directly to the government last year, and many other sectors benefiting.
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Among the dead was Kim Chang-ho, a decorated climber who had scaled the world's 14 tallest peaks, including Mount Everest, in a record time span of seven years and 10 months, according to South Korean mountaineering officials.
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By then, Britain had rightly left India, and any celebration was either for purely mountaineering reasons or for the young queen, who happened to have been crowned on the very day the success was announced to the world.
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"Due to the impact of climate change and global warming, snow and glaciers are fast melting and dead bodies are increasingly being exposed and discovered by climbers," Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, told CNN.
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For Team USA's opening ceremony entrance, Ralph Lauren is providing Americana-inspired outfits that will feature slim-fit moto jeans, fringed cowboy gloves, a tricolor wool knit sweater, a navy bandana and brown suede mountaineering boots with red laces.
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Sudekum's children also mentioned how their father is "a fantastic, passionate, capable individual who was doing what he loved" and expressed their gratitude to the Indian Mountaineering Foundation and search teams who have been looking for the missing climbers.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish climbers said on Monday heavy snow and ominous weather forecasts had forced them to call off their attempt to climb the world's second highest peak, K2, in winter - one of last remaining big feats in mountaineering.
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Ang Tshering Sherpa, the former head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said China applied pressure on the Nepal's government and an international climbing body to recognize 29,017 feet, the measurement from the rock base, as the mountain's new height.
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Herschel's Little America style sports a ~mountaineering silhouette~ that's been decked out with an internal media pocket, an adjustable drawstring closure, contoured shoulder straps, a front pocket with a hidden zipper and key clip, and a protective laptop sleeve.
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While the climb was arduous on its own -- rife with glacial ice and loose rock, according to GlacierHub -- the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation commended Kim's team for making the climb without leaving a trace, including gear and waste.
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The climbers have been identified as Martin Moran, John McLaren, Rupert Whewell and Richard Payne, all from Britain, Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel from the United States, McCance from Australia, and liaison officer Pandey from the Indian Mountaineering Foundation.
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"Due to the impact of climate change and global warming, snow and glaciers are fast melting and dead bodies are increasingly being exposed and discovered by climbers," Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, told CNN in March.
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Mountaineering record: Nirmal Purja of Nepal, a former member of the British military, successfully reached the top of all 14 of the world's highest mountains in just over six months, a feat it has taken other climbers years to manage.
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Mountaineering is such an entrenched aspect of Sherpa culture that there is speculation it has led to genetic adaptations among the Sherpa people, which would account for their seemingly inhuman ability to resist the effects of high altitudes on the body.
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The eldest daughter of a posh family, Lister was a rarity, a female landowner, whose inherited property gave her the freedom to live as she pleased—which she did, studying anatomy, going mountaineering, and even marrying a woman, in a church.
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Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association, said that in addition to the weather fluctuation, the government was to be blamed for delaying by a week permission for a helicopter flight to fix the rope at the highest peak.
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"Some Indian climbers look for low-budget companies and get poor services," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, the founder of Asian Trekking, one of Nepal's largest mountaineering companies that has led 54 climbers to the summit of Everest this year without fatalities.
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The earliest ones were narrow, precipitous, almost improvised spaces, tucked into the classical campaniles and Gothic belfries that topped those pioneering buildings; the decks were reached through tiny penthouse elevators and steep staircases, in a staged ascent not unlike mountaineering.
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Scheuchzer's book is just one of many fascinating examples of mountaineering literature that emerged in the 18th and 303th centuries, some of which will go on sale at Swann Auction Galleries's auction of early printed travel, medical, and scientific books tomorrow.
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"For the first time, an Indian Army mountaineering expedition team has sited (sic) mysterious footprints of mythical beast Yeti," read the post, which was accompanied by three pictures of footprints, and a group photo that appeared to be of the expedition group.
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Ang Tshering Sherpa, one of the first pupils to study at a mountaineering school built by the New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and a pioneer of Everest tourism, said that one of the most dangerous recoveries was at 8,700 meters, near the peak.
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If you took a pair of high-quality adult snow pants that are suitable for skiing, boarding, or mountaineering and then hit them with some sort of shrink ray device, you would be left with the Columbia Snowslope II Insulated Bib Pants.
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Two years later, he returned to mountaineering and finished a solo climb of Broad Peak in the Himalayas, the 12th-highest peak in the world, without the supplemental oxygen that most climbers use at such altitudes, where the air is dangerously thin.
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Mary Anderson, who, with her husband, founded the mountaineering importer in 2100 that became REI and helped it grow into the nation's largest consumer cooperative without betraying its founding principles, died on March 22009 in the Puget Sound region of Washington State.
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Yet for the younger generation of climbers—those who can't remember life before the internet and had many of their formative experiences occur on sites like Myspace—one of the main thrills of mountaineering is the ability to disconnect from our media saturated world.
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RZEDKOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - Polish climbers hope to pull off one of the last big feats of mountaineering in coming months by scaling K214, the world's second highest peak and the only of the 21980 exceeding 8,000 meters (26,246 ft) yet to be conquered in wintertime.
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As the owner of Madison Mountaineering he leads about 10 expeditions a year and can be on the road for more than two months at time taking care of every detail of the trek for clients, from planning routes to rationing food and supplies.
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