Climbing Video: Interview with Reinhold Messner
May 23, 2008
An interview with the mountaineering great, Reinhold Messner via The Adventure Blog.
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Sir Edmund Hillary dies at age 88
January 12, 2008
As has been widely reported, Sir Edmund Hillary, the first to scale Mount Everest, died at age 88 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Good coverage and insight can be found at The Adventure Blog and The New York Times.
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12th Annual Mountainfest in the Adirondacks
November 22, 2007
Taking place in New York’s Adirondacks, the 12th annual Mountainfest will take place this winter January 11-13, 2008.
A full schedule of classes include beginning through advanced ice climbing, snowshoe mountaineering, and avalanche fundamentals.
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Scandinavian Mountaineering site
May 27, 2007
A new, very polished site was pointed out to me that covers Scandinavian mountains over 2000 meters. The site contains detailed information including climbing and walking routes, high quality photos, and a lot of info on the area.
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The Boys of Everest
November 30, 2006
Clint Willis has a new book out, The Boys of Everest, which was a finalist for the 2006 Banff Mountain Literature Award.
The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing’s Greatest Generation is a story of tremendous courage, staggering achievement, and heart-breaking loss. Bonington’s inner circle—they came to be known as Bonington’s Boys—included a dozen of mountaineering’s legendary figures and gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly grave risks on expeditions to the world’s most difficult peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it?
The Boys of Everest, based on extensive interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals as well as five decades of journals, films, photographs, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that we’ll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington and his comrades found in the mountains—as well as an understanding of what they lost there.
From the sample chapter (pdf) you can download on the site, The Boys of Everest looks to be a good read. More info can be found on the book’s website.
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American Climbing Legend to Retire at Peak
June 20, 2005
Ed Viesturs is retiring after becoming the first American (12th climber overall) to summit all 14 of the world’s highest peaks without using bottled oxygen.
Viesturs isn’t done climbing mountains — just mountains above 8,000 meters. He doesn’t have anything scheduled, but he’s looking at some mountains in India and Tibet. And he may even be back on Everest, a mountain he has climbed six times, although he won’t be shooting for the summit this time.
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Ed Viesturs stalls on climb in Himalayas
May 12, 2005
UPDATE: Viesturs has summited Annapurna and has become first American to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.
Ed Viesturs is on hold at 23,000 feet in the Himalayas on his current attempt at Annapurna. The world’s 10th-highest peak is the last on the list for Viesturs’ attempt to become the first American to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.
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Korean Completes Grand Slam of Mountaineering
May 2, 2005
The Korea Times reports that South Korean Park Young-seok reached the North Pole which would make him the first person to climb 14 8,000 meter peaks, climb the seven summits, and reach the North and South Poles.
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Everest climber argues Sherpas undervalued
April 21, 2005
An Everest climber argues that Sherpas are undervalued for the work they perform and how they put their lives on the line.
Though scaling Everest has become a lucrative adventure sport, Apa and other Sherpas, many of whom use their ethnic group as a last name, say they are not getting their fair share of the income. Since commercial expeditions began in the early 1990s, wealthy clients have lined up to pay as much as $65,000 to companies that organize expeditions.
Sherpas can earn $2,000 to $3,000 in the two-month climbing season, securing ladders and ropes and carrying clients’ loads. Elite Sherpa climbers like Apa do far more than that, carefully shepherding to the summit Westerners who often have scant mountaineering experience and whose lives may rest in the Sherpas’ hands.
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First American Expedition to Borkoldoy Mountains
April 19, 2005
MountainZone.com reports that the Harvard Mountaineering Club is celebrating its 80th Anniversary by undertaking an expedition to the Borkoldoy Mountains in Kyrgyzstan.
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MSN Travel Follows Ed Viesturs’ Historic Mountaineering Attempt
April 19, 2005
Not sure how this site will turn out, but MSN Travel will be covering every aspect of Ed Viesturs‘ attempt on Annapurna without oxygen. Viesturs’ 20 year quest to be the first American to summit all 14 8,000 meter peaks without oxygen will be complete with success on Annapurna.
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Climbing Mt. Rainier
April 13, 2005
The Los Angeles Times has an article about two Rainier Mountaineering guides, Chris Bamer and Rob Montague, and their attempt on the Ptarmigan Ridge route.
The article also has some great background info on climbing Mt. Rainier.
For many American mountaineers, the road to the toughest climbs in the world goes through Mt. Rainier, considered the premier technical ice climb in the Lower 48. As climbing season dawns this spring, the tricky conditions and the popularity of the climb — almost 10,000 people take on Mt. Rainier each year — mean the mountain will be a busy place for Mike Gauthier, 35, head climbing ranger at Mt. Rainier National Park.
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