Climbing and Playing in the Crowded Skies With the rise in popularity of high alpine sports, there is a trend across the globe of overcrowding in the mountains. Improvements in equipment, professional training, guide services, financial resources, and an overall increased global interest, it’s no surprise that some of the major headlines this season in the Northern Hemisphere and sure to be this season in the Southern […] Climbing Jonathan Thomson | August 16, 2019 0 Comments
Nepal to Implement Strict Rules for Everest Permits to Prevent Another Deadly Season Climbers wanting to take on Mount Everest will be required to have already scaled 6,500-meters (21,325 feet) peaks, undergone proper training, possess a certificate of good health and have insurance that would cover rescue costs if required under new proposals by a government panel seeking to improve safety on the world’s highest peak. Related: Andrzej Bargiel Plans to Ski Everest […] Climbing CragBrains | August 16, 2019 0 Comments
Former Gurkha Close to Being First Ever to Climb the 14 Tallest Mountains in Under a Year After completing Phase I and Phase II of his 14 mountain mission, Nirmal ‘Nims’ Purja has just 3 mountains left before breaking the most impressive record in mountaineering. Nims is a former Gurkha soldier, a group of British-hired Nepalese soldiers who have a reputation of fearlessness. He certainly embodies this reputation as he nears his goal of smashing the existing […] Climbing Joseph Phillips | August 1, 2019 0 Comments
Epic Resorts $199 Everest Add-On Satire Piece Fooled Many… Even Google Earlier this week Vail Resorts got the ski industry talking by adding 17 new resorts to their portfolio with the acquisition of Peak Resorts. For many, the rise of these conglomerates gobbling up ski areas to add value to their multi-resort passes will be the death of skiing as we know it. In acknowledgment of this, TGR published a satire piece […] Friday Fun SnowBrains | July 26, 2019 0 Comments
Acute Mountain Sickness | Know The Effects And Risks That Altitude Can Have In Your Body. A Polish woman went unconscious and then passed away last month in the middle of a mountaineering expedition in Manaslu, Nepal. Earlier this year, many climbers attempting to summit Mount Everest lost consciousness and perished on the way to the top. Similar situations happen every year in mountains all around the world. The reason? High Altitude Sickness or Acute Mountain […] Industry News Micho | July 17, 2019 0 Comments
You Can Now See Live Weather Data From the Top of Mount Everest Thanks to a group of scientists that installed weather stations on Everest last month, we can now see the conditions on the world’s highest mountain in real time. The team led by the National Geographic Society and Tribhuvan University installed two weather monitoring stations at 27,657 feet and 26,066 feet, as well as three other stations across the mountain. Related: Scientists […] Weather WeatherBrains | July 2, 2019 2 Comments
Friday Fun: John Oliver Examines Just Why Climbing Everest has Become So Dangerously Popular… [arve url="https://youtu.be/Bchx0mS7XOY"] SnowBrains | June 28, 2019 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Woman Sets New Everest Climbing World Record | 2-Weeks Round Trip from California Berkeley, CA resident Roxanne Vogel became the first person to summit Mount Everest and return home in only two weeks, completing a normally two-month expedition in a fraction of the time, reports the Daily Californian. The 33-year-old San Diego native, a nutrition and performance research manager at GU Energy Labs, set the new world record by departing California on May […] Climbing CragBrains | June 17, 2019 0 Comments
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