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Climber Disappeared 100 Years Ago on Mount Everest. Sock with His Name on It, and a Foot, Were Just Found
AP The partial remains of a British climber who disappeared on Mount Everest 100 years ago are believed to have finally been found. On Friday, National Geographic reported that one of their ...
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Everest climber and capitol rioter Jay Johnston sentenced to a year in prison
Nearly 26 years to the day since he first attempted to tell the story of his climbing of Mount Everest before slipping, repeatedly, into a collection of thimbles, Jay Johnston is going to jail.
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'Free Solo' climber Alex Honnold often sees melted glaciers on his climbs. It's changed the course of his career.
While Honnold said said while he rarely leads events this way, climate change conversations come up a lot in his career "because as a climber, you see it so acutely." "I fundraise for the ...
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He lost a finger and survived a kidnapping. Then, this climber took on a 9,000-foot ‘death-trap’
With jaw-dropping big wall ascents and a life packed with adrenaline and adventure, climber Tommy Caldwell has had a career worthy of – and captured by – a feature film. But after an agonizing ...
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Everest climber Andrew Irvine’s remains believed found after 100 years
His climbing partner’s body was found in 1999 but clues about Irvine's fate were elusive File photo: Climbers negotiating the Khumbu glacier in the Mount Everest region of Solukhumbu district ...
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Discovery of climber’s boot could solve mystery of who conquered Everest first
The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary have finally been discovered. Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared on the world’s highest ...
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Top climber falls to death after rare Himalayan feat
A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal, after completing the rare feat of scaling the mountain's perilous eastern face. Ondrej Huserka fell ...
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Teen climber shatters record for youngest to conquer world's 14 highest peaks
A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world's 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal on Monday to a hero's welcome. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the 8,027-metre ...
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Top mountaineer dies on Nepal peak after making historic ascent; climbing partner says he fell into "depths of the glacier"
A top Slovak mountaineer died on a descent of the 7,234-meter Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal after an historic ascent up its east face, Slovakia's climbers association said on Sunday. Ondrej ...
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Human remains found on Mount Everest apparently belong to famed climber who vanished 100 years ago
A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported ...
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Climber takes on a 9,000-foot ‘death-trap’ after losing finger, surviving kidnapping
With jaw-dropping big wall ascents and a life packed with adrenaline and adventure, climber Tommy Caldwell has had a career worthy of — and captured by — a feature film.Video above ...