49-Year Old Sherpa Summits Everest for a Record Breaking 23rd Time A 49-year-old sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for a 23rd time on Wednesday, setting a new record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain, Nepali hiking officials said. Kami Rita Sherpa, a native of Thame village located in the shadow of Mount Everest, reached the 29,035-feet summit via the Southeast Ridge route, accompanied by another Sherpa, […] Climbing CragBrains | May 17, 2019 0 Comments
Clean-Up Team Has Removed 3-TONNES of Trash from Mt. Everest (and They’ve Only Just Begun) A dedicated clean-up team sent to Mount Everest has collected three tonnes of garbage in its first two weeks, officials said Wednesday, in an ambitious plan to clean the world’s highest rubbish dump. Decades of commercial mountaineering have left the pristine mountain polluted as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. […] Climbing CragBrains | May 2, 2019 0 Comments
UPDATE: Experienced Mountaineer Stranded on One of the World’s Most Difficult Peaks has Been Rescued UPDATED: 4/26/19 – A Malaysian climber has been recovered alive near the summit of Mount Annapurna in Nepal, a trekking company has said, two days after he went missing. Climber Wui Kin Chin was spotted by a search party in a helicopter and was being taken by four rescuers to the closest camp, said Mingma Sherpa, the head of Seven Summit […] Climbing CragBrains | April 25, 2019 0 Comments
70-Year-Old Woman Died Yesterday in Second Fatal Fall in a Month at Grand Canyon National Park, AZ Yesterday saw the second ‘over the edge’ death at Grand Canyon National Park this month when a 70-year-old woman fell 200-feet off the South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. The woman was walking off a trail along the South Rim about a mile east of Mather Point. The call came into Park Rangers just after 1 pm that she needed help west […] CragBrains | April 24, 2019 0 Comments
Can this Nepali Climber Summit All 8,000m Peaks in Just 7 Months for One of the All-Time Great Mountaineering Feats? For most experienced mountaineers, summiting just one 8,000-meter peak in any given year is no mean feat. It can take weeks for a climber to acclimatize to summit a mountain like Mt. Everest or K2, and climbers generally need time to recover afterward. Anything above 8,000m is considered the ‘death zone’ and can take a huge toll on the body. […] Climbing CragBrains | April 19, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: Women Only Make Up 11% of Summits on the World’s Tallest Mountains | Caroline Gleich Aims to Change That [arve url="https://youtu.be/j3wVVykSBiU"] CragBrains | April 11, 2019 19 Likes 1 Tweet 0 Comments
Man Fell to His Death Canyoneering in Death Valley National Park, CA A man died on March 23, 2019, while canyoneering in Death Valley National Park, CA. Matthew Yaussi (41), of Glendale, California, was rappelling down a 380-foot cliff when he fell to his death, reports the NPS. Canyoneering is an activity that combines hiking, down-climbing, and rappelling down canyons and has been increasing in popularity in Death Valley. There are now […] Weather CragBrains | March 27, 2019 0 Comments
Macabre Scenes as Receding Glaciers Reveal Dead Bodies on Mount Everest Melting glaciers caused by global warming are creating macabre scenes on the world’s highest mountain. As the ice sheets recede, expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers’ bodies that have been buried all these years that are becoming exposed, reports the BBC. “Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting and the dead bodies […] Climbing CragBrains | March 22, 2019 0 Comments
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