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. Whatโs [โฆ] Climbing Lucy Ferneyhough | February 7, 2020 0 Comments
HAPE: The Killer We Still Donโt Understand What is HAPE, you ask? HAPE stands for High Altitude Pulmonary Edema and we still donโt really know who will develop it or why. HAPE is caused by a lack of oxygen and it is the leading killer at high altitudes. HAPE usually develops after 2 to 3 days spent at altitudes above 8,000 ft. The first sign is breathlessness [โฆ] Brains Gabrielle Gasser | February 1, 2020 0 Comments
Brain Post: 17 Interesting Facts About Mount Everest Everest climbing season is here. Summits are about to be had. Lives are about to be changed foreverโฆ for better or for worse. MOUNT EVEREST FACTS 1. Everest grows 4mm higher every year due to geologic uplift. 2. 1 in 10 successful summits ends in death. 3. Over 4,000 people have attempted to climb Everest. 4. George Everest, Surveyor General of [โฆ] Brains SnowBrains | May 3, 2019 101 Comments
Everest Left With Piles Of Garbage This Season Nepal has climbers pick up trash on Everest. Image: NBC News Mount Everest has been left with piles upon piles of garbage at Camp II in itโs short 2018 season, including human waste, tents, and other discarded gear. The mountain gets between 70,000 and 100,000 visitors each year. Trash left on Everest 2018 season. Image: Planet Ski More than 700 climbers [โฆ] Featured Article Jenah MacGrain | June 6, 2018 1 Comment
Nepal Begins Huge National Cleanup Campaign to Remove the Tons of Trash Littering Mount Everest With the increasing popularity of climbers looking to climb Mount Everest each and every spring climbing season, trash has become a serious problem. Often, climbers leave items like empty oxygen bottles, discarded food cans and torn tents in an attempt to save weight, and in turn conserve energy at the oxygen-starved altitude. But like any trash, it soon piles up, [โฆ] Climbing Steven Agar | March 21, 2018 0 Comments
Documentary: Pioneers Of Skiing The Himalaya in Winter | Beyond Skiing Everest Skiing Everest sounds insanely difficult. These men are pioneers of skiing the Himalaya in the winter. Let their extreme passion inspire you. โMike Marolt, Steve Marolt and Jim Gile have over 25 years of expeditions to some 40 of the highest peaks in the world, without Sherpa, oxygen, drugs and all the BS. They have gone to places so cold [โฆ] Movie Trailer LadyBrains | August 23, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson Skis Tuckermanโs Ravine, NH Current Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson has a long list of accomplishments on his resumรฉ. Some include political involvement such as his two terms as Governor in New Mexico, his home state, while others are of a more classic โAmerican Dreamโ type like the handyman business he started in order to fund his college career, which grew into a large construction company [โฆ] Dylan Cautela | October 21, 2016 0 Comments
Slovakian Climbers Caught In Everest Avalanche And Rescue By Sherpas According to the Himalayan Times, two Slovakian climbers were rescued 16 hours after an avalanche trapped them 7,200 meters up on Mount Everest. The avalanche occurred on a steep, icy slope that is used as a route to climb the Worldโs highest mountain. The two Slovakian climbers, Vladimรญr ล trba and Zoltรกn Pรกl, were rescued by four Sherpas, Mingma Gabu, Lakpa [โฆ] Avalanche Chris Wallner | May 11, 2016 1 Comment
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