India Qualifies Its First Athlete For The Beijing Winter Olympics India’s first official competitor in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be an alpine skier. As well as being the first, 31-year old Arif Khan is the only Indian athlete qualified thus far. Khan will be competing in the Slalom event. He recently qualified for the Olympic Games at an Entry League FIS event on the indoor slopes of Ski […] Olympics Jake Vigesaa | December 4, 2021 1 Comment
Man Hikes With Piano Up 13,000ft Himalayan Mountain So Kids Could Hear Mozart For First Time Desmond O’Keeffe hiked with a 100-year-old piano up a 13,000 foot Himalayan mountain so children could hear Mozart for the first time. Desmond is a piano tuner who embarked on this 13-month journey to the remote Himalayan mountains. The villagers at the top of the mountain live at one of the highest altitudes in the world and have never seen a […] Climbing Nick Retterer | April 16, 2021 0 Comments
NASA: What Caused the Catastrophic Landslide That Killed Hundreds in the Himalayas? This post first appeared on the NASA Earth Observatory website Sheer, glacier-covered ridges separated by gorges soar over the Chamoli district in northern India. On the morning of February 7, 2021, this spectacular terrain in Uttarakhand turned deadly when a torrent of rock, ice, sediment, and water surged through the Rishiganga River valley past multiple villages and slammed into two […] SnowBrains | February 26, 2021 0 Comments
Adrian Ballinger’s Favorite Mountains to Ski and Climb Brought to you by Alpenglow Expeditions In the most recent SnowBrains podcast, Miles chatted to Adrian Ballinger, badass mountaineer, climber, skier, and founder of Squaw Valley, CA-based Alpenglow Expeditions. During the conversation, Adrian & Miles discuss extreme skiing at extreme altitude, the best stories from Adrian’s insane high mountain guiding and climbing career, summiting Everest without oxygen, summiting K2 without oxygen, avalanches, […] SnowBrains | February 12, 2021 0 Comments
Glacier Fracture In New Delhi Causes Widespread Flood Damage – 125 Reported Missing A glacier fractured in the Himalayas on Sunday, causing flash floods and widespread damage, with more than 125 people reported missing. India’s disaster response team was dispatched to Uttarakhand’s mountainous region, where they’ve already recovered seven bodies. Authorities have begun evacuating several villages downstream to clear the area for rescue efforts. Related: Watch Glacier Flood Sweep Through Valley The flood destroyed […] Weather Nick Retterer | February 9, 2021 0 Comments
Heavy Snowfall Kills 9 and Brings Chaos to Himalayan Kashmir Heavy snowfall killed at least nine people in Himalayan Kashmir yesterday and has left the region paralyzed, officials said. Deep snow has blocked roads and damaged power lines, disrupting life and blanketing the area in darkness. Hospitals are without power and surgeries have had to be canceled. The snow caused large scale damage to apple trees, the mainstay of the region’s […] WeatherBrains | November 8, 2019 0 Comments
Canadian University Professor Missing in Himalayas After Avalanche Struck his Camp Peter Wittek, 37, is missing in India after an avalanche struck during an expedition. The University of Toronto Professor was part of a team of six climbing Mount Trishul in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, India. Related: Avalanches Are the Most Frequent Cause of Weather Fatalities in Almost All Mountainous States According to Gripped, Wittek was alone in his tent […] Avalanche AvyBrains | October 3, 2019 0 Comments
VIDEO: GoPro Footage Shows Last Moments of Himalayan Climbers Before Deadly Avalanche AvyBrains | July 9, 2019 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
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