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Mountaineering Legend Reinhold Messner Has 2 World Records Taken Away

Legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner has had two of his Guinness Book of World Records taken away after a reclassification claims that he never reached the true summit of Annapurna. For decades, Messner has been credited with being the first person to climb all 14 8,000m+ (26,000ft+) peaks. He did this without supplementary oxygen, earning him another title, and has climbed […]
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27 Dead Recovered After Avalanche Struck Student Climbing Group in Himalayan Mountains, India | 2 Still Missing

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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 27 climbers after an avalanche struck the Indian Himalayan mountains. Two are still missing as search and rescue operations enter their seventh day. “We have retrieved 27 bodies so far — 25 of them were trainees and two bodies are those of instructors.” – an official from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, a government agency, […]
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19 Dead Recovered After Avalanche Struck Student Climbing Group in Himalayan Mountains, India | 10 Still Missing

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Rescuers have recovered the bodies of 19 climbers after an avalanche struck the Indian Himalayan mountains. Bad weather has hampered the search for ten still missing. “Nineteen bodies have been recovered. Ten people are still missing.” – state disaster agency spokesperson Ridhim Aggarwal told AFP One of the students rescued, Sunil Lalwani, credited the instructors for preventing more fatalities. “We […]
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Boy Wonder? 18-year-old Scottish Phenom Climbs 8,000-Meter Lhotse, Sets New World Record, and Places Remaining 13 Himalayan “Eight Thousanders” As Next On His List

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New World Record Climb What does it take to climb an 8,000 meter (26,247 ft.) peak in the Himalayas? Just ask 18-year-old Scottish climber Alasdair McKenzie. He’ll tell you. He just set a new Guinness World Record as the youngest person ever to climb Lhotse, the 4th highest mountain in the world. If this wasn’t incredible enough, he paired the […]
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Woman Breaks Speed Record For Summiting All 14 of the World’s 8,000m Peaks

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A Norwegian woman is on target to break the speed record for ascending all 14 of the world’s mountains above 8,000m (26,000-feet).   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Kristin Harila (@kristin.harila) Kristin Harila, 36, most recently summited 27,766-foot Makalu in the same week that she conquered 29,035-foot Mount Everest and 27,940-foot Lhotse. That takes her to six […]
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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 […]
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HAPE – Understanding the Most Serious Form Of Altitude Sickness

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With several US and European ski resorts reaching altitudes above 10,000 feet, altitude sickness is not an unknown factor to the readers here at Snowbrains. It is, however, less commonly known that a serious form of altitude sickness, known as High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema, can strike even at moderate high-altitudes from about 8,000 feet (or 2,440m) and does not just afflict […]
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