Tour Everest Through Your VR Headset Photo: Jonathan Griffith The Oculus Virtual Reality headset made by Facebook is now offering a three-part virtual tour of Mount Everest. The filming was done by Jonathan Griffith, a close friend of world-famous mountaineer Ueli Steck. Ueli died a year before the filmmaking expedition in 2017 on the West Ridge of the mountain preparing to reach the summit of Mt Everest […] Brains Dan Scheibelein | April 3, 2020 0 Comments
EXCLUSIVE: SnowBrains Learns of Multi-Billion Dollar Venture for Ski Resort Atop Mount Everest SnowBrains has received world exclusive secret documents of a Middle East conglomeration planning to create a ski mega-resort on Mount Everest, including chairlifts, a gondola, a world-class restaurant, and cafeteria at the summit. A number of rich businessmen are involved in the multi-billion dollar venture, which they optimistically plan to have operational by the summer of 2021, although the recent coronavirus […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 1, 2020 3 Comments
Mount Everest Climbing Season CANCELED to Prevent Coronavirus Spread Mount Everest has closed for the rest of the climbing season due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nepal’s government confirmed yesterday that the world’s tallest mountain will be shut to expeditions between March 14 and April 30. The decision comes a day after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic. Everest is now closed from the north side (Tibet) […] Climbing CragBrains | March 13, 2020 0 Comments
Climbers Attempt To Summit Mount Everest In Winter For First Time in 27 Years A team of five climbers from Spain and Germany are currently embarking on a feat that has not been accomplished since 1997; summitting Mount Everest during the winter. The traditional season when athletes flock to Nepal to attempt the journey is in April or May when the cold and wind subside but the summer monsoons have not yet started. What’s […] Climbing Lucy Ferneyhough | February 7, 2020 0 Comments
Nepal to Insist that Trekking Companies Recover Clients’ Dead Bodies from Mount Everest Tougher rules being implemented by Nepal are making trekking companies responsible for retrieving the bodies of climbers who die while climbing Mount Everest, reports The Times. It is estimated there are at least 100 bodies on Everest right now. Recent warmer weather has been causing the snow and ice to melt at a quicker rate, revealing bodies that have lain […] Climbing CragBrains | December 18, 2019 2 Comments
Andrzej Bargiel Abandons Attempt to Ski Down Everest Due to Unsafe Apartment-Sized Hanging Ice Block A hanging chunk of ice the size of an apartment block has forced Polish daredevil Andrzej Bargiel to abandon his bid to ski down Mount Everest, he announced on his Facebook on Monday. The 31-year-old, who last year skied down K2, was making a rare attempt to summit the world’s tallest mountain and then ski down without supplemental oxygen. But a […] Industry News CragBrains | October 1, 2019 0 Comments
The World’s 5 Tallest Peaks and How Dangerous They Are To Climb Climbing big mountains is dangerous stuff. For most people, that’s just common sense (for others it’s not). Which of the world’s 5 tallest peaks is the deadliest? K2 is the second highest peak on Earth but stands as the most dangerous to climb. An insane 23% of people who attempt K2 never make it back alive. That’s almost one in […] Climbing Mike Lavery | September 13, 2019 1 Comment
Andrzej Bargiel Plans to Ski Everest Without Supplemental Oxygen Polish ski mountaineer, Andrzej Bargiel, recently revealed his plan to ski Everest in an interview with his sponsor Red Bull. Mount Everest has been skied before, but Bargiel wants to do it “without unfastening the skis and no additional oxygen.” Last year Bargiel became the first person to ski down the world’s second-highest mountain, K2. He accomplished this without supplemental oxygen […] Industry News Taliana Potts | August 16, 2019 0 Comments
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