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4 Climbers Found Dead on Everest Yesterday | 10 Dead on Everest This Season The bodies of four deceased climbers were found in a tent at Camp IV (highest camp located at South Col, located at 8,000 m/26,247 ft) on Mt. Everest on Tuesday night by Sherpa rescuers, according to authorities and Mingma Sherpa. Ten climbers have died on Everest this season already. Everest averages around 6 deaths per climbing season. These Sherpa rescuers were at […] Industry News CragBrains | May 24, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: “Trouble on Everest” | The Story of the Sherpa Everest isn’t what it used to be. Brawls, crowding, inexperienced climbers, and the exploitation of the Sherpa. A brawl on Everest? Director Jennifer Peedom set out to uncover tension in the 2014 Everest climbing season from the Sherpas’ point of view and instead captured a tragedy when an avalanche struck, killing 16 Sherpas. Sherpa tells the story of how the […] Movie Trailer SnowBrains | October 24, 2015 0 Comments
Only Person to Attempt Mt. Everest This Year Abandons 2nd Attempt According to the BBC, the Japanese climber, Nobukazu Kuriki, who has lost 9 fingers attempting to climb Everest 5 times, has abandoned his second attempt at summiting 29,028-foot Mt. Everest this fall. Nobukazu is the only person to attempt Everest since the earthquake that caused the avalanche that killed 18 people in Everest Base Camp and over 9,000 people in […] Industry News Miles Clark | October 8, 2015 1 Comment
The Only Person Climbing Everest This Year Abandons Attempt The only person to attempt to summit 29,028-foot Mt. Everest this year was Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki. Nobu has already lost 9 fingers attempting to climb Everest 4 different times. “I tried hard taking all my energy, but it took too much time to move in deep deep snow.” “I realised if I kept going, I wouldn’t be able to come back alive.” […] Industry News SnowBrains | September 28, 2015 3 Comments
Mt. Everest Reopens to Climbers for 1st Time Since Deadly Earthquake Nepal’s tourism ministry granted a Mount Everest climbing permit to Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki on Sunday. This was the first climbing permit issued since the terrible earthquake that killed nearly 9,000 people this past April that killed 18 people at Everest base camp and was the worst disaster in Everest history. “The main purpose of my Industry News SnowBrains | August 25, 2015 1 Comment
Officials Were Right About 2nd Mt. Everest Earthquake| 7.3-M Earthquake in Nepal Today Officials in China and the USA were right about a second large earthquake hitting Nepal during the Mt. Everest climbing season this year. Today, a 7.3-magnitude hit Nepal killing at least 40 people and injuring over 1,000 injured. This new earthquake was centered 50 miles east of Katmandu and not far from Mt. Everest and very likely would have spelled disaster for climbers on Mt. Everest. Luckily, no one was on Mt. Everest during today’s 7.3 […] SnowBrains | May 12, 2015 0 Comments
Mt. Everest Will Not Be Climbed for First Time Since 1974 Mount Everest will not be climbed this year for the first time since 1974. Following Nepal’s 7.8-magnitude earthquake on April 25th that killed 18 at the south Everest base camp and over 7,000 in Nepal, China closed the north side of the mountain to climbing. Nepal has not yet officially closed the south side of the mountain to climbing (mostly because they likely want to keep the $11,000 climbing permits issued to 357 climbers this year) but the Icefall Doctor’s, a group of Sherpa who fix the lines to cross the trecherous Khumbu Icefall (between base camp and Camp I), has […] Industry News SnowBrains | May 5, 2015 3 Comments
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