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The Park Service Wants to Ban All Rock Climbing in Designated Wilderness
If the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service proposals pass, fixed anchors in wilderness will be considered illegal unless granted special permission
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Extreme relaxation cliff chair.
Take a seat and let your eyes feast upon the stunning views unfolding underneath your dangling feet.
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Meet the First Dog to Climb Mt. Everest
Say hello to Rupee, the formerly homeless pup who was found starving in a dump in India. His owner, Joanne Lefson, rescued him and helped nurse him back to health, feeding him a high protein diet of boiled eggs and rice, the Daily Mail reports. Now, Rupee is strong, healthy and capable of climbing mountains. He’s become the first canine on record to climb Mount Everest after trekking for 10 days with Lefson to base camp, 17,000 feet above sea level.
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Mount Everest litter targeted by Nepalese authorities
Climbers scaling Mount Everest will have to bring back 8kg (17.6lb) of rubbish under rules designed to clean up the world's highest peak. The rule, one of several new measures for mountaineering in Nepal, will apply to climbers ascending beyond Everest's base camp from April, said tourism ministry official Madhusudan Burlakoti.
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2 dead, several missing after avalanche on Mount Everest
Two Sherpa guides were killed and seven others were missing Friday after a high-altitude avalanche on Mt. Everest, officials said. A group of about 50 people, mostly Nepali Sherpas, were hit by the avalanche at more than 20,000 feet, according to Tilak Ram Pandey, with the mountaineering department of the tourism ministry.
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Nepal guides killed as avalanche hits Everest
At least 12 Nepalese guides preparing routes up Mount Everest for commercial climbers have been killed by an avalanche in the deadliest mountaineering accident ever on the world's highest peak, officials and rescuers have said. The men were among a large party of Sherpas carrying tents, food and ropes who headed out in bright sunshine in an early morning expedition on Friday ahead of the main climbing season starting later this month, according to the AFP news agency.
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Everest Base Camp
In March 2014, I trekked for two weeks in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal to Mount Everest Base Camp. It was the hardest thing I've ever done while traveling, and ultimately the most rewarding.
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The Business of Everest: What It Pays to Risk It All
In the wake of Friday’s devastating accident, in which an avalanche killed 16 Nepali guides 19,000 feet up the southern face of Mount Everest, dozens of Sherpas and sherpas are packing their tents and leaving Everest Base Camp. Government officials are trying to persuade some of the guides to stay on, but most have called off the season to mourn their brethren and figure out how to restructure their profitable but deadly industry.
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The Year Climate Change Closed Everest
The deadly avalanche on Everest earlier this month wasn't technically an avalanche. It was an "ice release"—a collapse of a glacial mass known as a serac. Rather than getting swept up by a rush of powdery snow across a slope, the victims fell under the blunt force of house-sized ice blocks tumbling through the Khumbu Icefall, an unavoidable obstacle on the most popular route up Everest. The worst accident in the mountain's history has effectively ended the 2014 climbing season.
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Nepal probes if Chinese woman used helicopter on Everest climb
Nepal said on Tuesday it was investigating whether a Chinese woman, this season's sole climber of Mount Everest from the Nepalese side, used a helicopter to reach a high camp after a deadly avalanche last month washed away part of the route.
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Empire of Rock
Southern China holds the world's largets concentration of the eroded topography called karst. For more than 600 million years, this region was covered by a sea and accumulated miles-thick layers of sediments, including limestone. Uplift and erosion of the geological formation created todays massive caverns. Explorers use a laser scanner to see China’s giant caverns as never before.
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Black Year: Everest’s Deadliest Season
The true story of the mountain's most horrific day, the Sherpas who paid the price, and the aftershocks that will change the mountain forever
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'French Spiderman' scales huge Russian skyscraper
Daredevil Alain Robert, who is known as 'The French Spiderman,' due to his extreme climbs, has taken on the tallest Russian building outside of Moscow.
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Trekkers Die in Nepal Blizzards
At least 12 people have been killed and many more are missing in blizzards in the Himalayas in Nepal, officials say.
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Nepal blizzard death toll rises to 39, more than 370 rescued
The death toll in a blizzard that engulfed trekkers on Nepal's popular Annapurna trail in the Himalayas has risen to 39, police and army sources said on Saturday.
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Guy climbs down a giant industrial crane with Go Pro camera attached to helmet
Wearing nothing but a backpack and a helmet this guy climbs down what appears to be a very tall industrial crane.
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Climbers Complete Historic Yosemite Climb
Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson are the first to free climb the Dawn Wall.
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Daredevil Duo is the First to Scale Niagara Falls
Two Canadian climbers completed the impossible: scaling Niagara’s 51m-high, nearly frozen falls.
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Everest climbing route to be changed
The route used by mountaineers to scale Mount Everest is to be changed amid fears of an increased avalanche risk. Nepal will change the path next month after a deadly collapse in 2014 killed 16 Sherpa guides - the worst single loss of life in expedition history. The current route up the mountain has been in use since the 1990s. Mountaineers will now take a more central route after Base Camp, avoiding the left side of the Khumbu Icefall, where last year's accident occurred.
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The Insiders
A short film about indoor climbing featuring Paul Robinson, Sasha DiGiulian, Vasya Vorotnikov, and Ashima Shiraishi. Presented by Central Rock Gym in Worcester, MA, Rockwerx, prAna, Teknik, and e-grips. "There's an infinite number of movements that can be done in the climbing gym..."
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