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Yosemite National Park, CA, to Mandate Big Wall Permits

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Yosemite has been discussing the possibility of enforcing big wall climbing permits for a few years. After a two-year pilot program, they have come to a decision to enforce permits starting in January 2023 permanently.  Project Goals The stated main focus of the permit system is to preserve wildlife. The National Park Service (NPS) described its struggles with big wall […]

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Riley McDonald | November 11, 2022
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8-Year-Old Boy Sets Out to Become Youngest Ever to Scale Yosemite’s El Capitan, CA

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This week, a father and son duo initiated an attempt to climb El Capitan at Yosemite National Park in California. The feat would make the 8-year-old boy the youngest person ever to climb the world-renowned peak. Rising more than 3,000 feet above the valley floor, you don’t have to be a climber to comprehend that El Capitan is a challenging […]

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Nick DeRiso | October 27, 2022
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Man Dressed in Tracksuit Without Mountaineering Gear Rescued ‘5 Minutes From Death’ on Mont Blanc, Italy

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A British man almost died on Mont Blanc at the weekend after attempting to climb western Europe’s highest peak in a tracksuit and without mountaineering equipment, according to rescuers. The 26 year old Aerospace engineer Feda Hussein was minutes away from death when rescuers from Italy’s Aosta Valley Mountain Rescue team reached him on Sunday morning. Related: French Mayor Wants to End […]

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CragBrains | October 6, 2022
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[VIDEO] Massive Rockslide Narrowly Misses Hikers Below on Mont Blanc, France

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by SnowBrains (@snowbrains) Climber Lewis Muir filmed this insane rockslide on Mont Blanc on Monday that narrowly missed a group of climbers below. The rockslide occurred on the The Cosmiques Arete on the Aiguille du Midi, an extremely popular alpine climb from Chamonix, France. The incident affirms why routes on […]

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CragBrains | September 2, 2022
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Mont-Blanc Mountain Hut in Italy Crashes From its Altitude of 12,057 Feet

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The Alberico Borgna mountain hut crashed this week from an altitude of 12,057 ft (3,675m) down the south-west side of the Italian side of the Mont-Blanc massif. The hut was located right on the French-Italian border between Tour Ronde and Mont Maudit. The hut could be reached in about 2.5 hours from Punta Helbronner at 3,466m, which is serviced by […]

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Julia Schneemann | August 29, 2022
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The Amount of Garbage Littered on K2 is Obscene

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K2 has been popular this climbing season. That may be an understatement as a record number of climbers have been attempting to summit the mountain. To put it in perspective, last month there was a record 145 climbers who summited in just one day. That is double the amount that usually summits in an entire season. Before this year, only […]

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Brent Thomas | August 29, 2022
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[VIDEO] Stunning Rare Drone Footage of Mount Everest

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CragBrains | August 26, 2022
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Young Climber Survives 80 ft. Fall in Yosemite National Forest, CA

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Climbing With Friends 21-year-old Anna Parsons is an outdoor enthusiast and was enjoying what she loves to do most on August 1, 2022. She had no idea what would happen that fateful day. She just arrived in the U.S. two days earlier with her friend and classmate, Jack Evans. They were marine science students from New Zealand on their way […]

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Ryan Kime | August 23, 2022
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