Sixteen years ago Alex Lowe, one of the most famous American mountaineers of the nineties, was killed by a huge avalanche in the Himalayas. His body has now been found alongside that of his friend and ...

He hurt his arm before climbing Shishapangma and didn’t drink enough water, leaving him with cramps. And while climbing the last 700 meters of Nanga Parbat, 8,126m, without fixed ropes ...

Mount Shishapangma is 8,027 meters high. With the feat, Nima has overtaken his uncle, Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, for the world record. Mingma Gyabu had held the record for being the youngest to climb ...

and the group with whom he completed the Mount Shishapangma climb. Speaking to the BBC shortly after the record had been set, his father, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, recounted the moment he delivered the ...

Metcalfe, a 50-year-old doctor from Colorado, recently became the first American woman to ascend all 14 mountains above 8,000 ...

For him, Shishapangma was his 13th 8,000er ... In the mountains, of course.” Climbing the ‘eight-thousanders’ constitutes the ultimate achievement in mountaineering. Legendary Italian ...

so I’ll keep climbing for sure,” she said. “I imagine that after Shisha Pangma I will spend some time climbing the mountains ...

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Nirmal Purja reached the top of his 14th mountain, Shishapangma in China, on Tuesday morning. Purja, 36, joined the British Army in 2003 and became a Royal Marine in 2009. His climbing career ...

Arjun Vajpai, the youngest person to climb Mt. Everest has made India proud once again. On 9th October 2024, when Arjun ...