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Row over Everest climb permits
Hundreds of climbers forced to abandon expeditions on Mount Everest last year are waiting to hear whether they will be allowed to try again in 2015.
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World record speed climber makes wall look almost horizontal
5 seconds to the top...
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Two Mummified Bodies Spotted on Mexico's Highest Peak
A team of Mexican climbers searching for a frozen body on the country's highest mountain stumbled on a second mummified cadaver during their expedition on Thursday.
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Alex Honnold - El Sendero Luminoso
On January 15, 2014, Alex Honnold free-soloed El Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path) in El Portrero Chico, Mexico in a little over 3 hours. The climb rises 2,500 feet to the summit of El Toro. It could be the most difficult rope-less climb in history.
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Sean McColl Pulls Off Ludicrous Move In Canadian Bouldering Final
There was an extreme amount of Canadian climbing pride on display yesterday when the country's best climbers (as well as one or two American interlopers) converged on the Bloc Shop climbing wall in Montreal where they duked it out for the national title.
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Mount Everest: What is it like to reach the top of the world?
To start a series of special reports from Mount Everest, BBC News spoke to three people about their first time reaching the world's highest point.
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Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold makes the first free solos of the largest walls in North America. He scales 2,000 feet with only shoes and chalk bag—no rope, no safety, and no room for error.
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The White Spider - Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer's classic, The White Spider, details the first ascent of the Eiger's infamous north face, and its central role in the genesis and controversy of extreme sports.
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Adventurous Mountaineers Scale the Alps for Incredible Photos
Although these stunning images might look like the work of Photoshop magic, photographer Robert Bösch captured these campaign photos for the Swiss mountaineering brand Mammut by carefully coordinating an entire team of mountaineers on the snowy Alps.
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22 month old toddler on a climbing wall
Start them young...
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Steph Davis: Crazy, Beautiful Thing
Breathtaking base jumping and climbing
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New Recipe for Conquering Everest: Rethinking Methods, Route
A veteran guide focuses on pre-climb training and the Tibetan side of the mountain.
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Hee Yong Park: ice and mixed climbing on the Argentiere Glacier
On February 6-7, 2015, he won the second to last World Cup climbing stage in Champagny-en-Vanoise (French Alps).
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Climbers trapped on Mount Everest ‘are getting desperate’
Helicopter teams began evacuating critically injured climbers at Mount Everest’s base camp on Sunday morning, but the effort came to an abrupt halt when a significant new aftershock triggered more avalanches and fears of additional casualties at the world’s highest peak. Dozens of climbers remain trapped on the side of the mountain at two camps that sit above where the avalanche fell, climbers said in tweets and posts on social media.
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New unofficial Speed Climbing World Record (5.57 seconds)
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Nepal earthquake: Mount Everest climbs 'almost impossible'
Climbing Mount Everest this season is "almost impossible" because the routes have been damaged by avalanches triggered by last month's earthquake, officials in Nepal say. They warn that it will take time for the routes to be remade. The government has not announced an official decision. At least 19 people were killed in the avalanches. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake is now known to have killed more than 7,000 people and injured more than 10,000.
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Teens climb the Shenzhen Centre a whopping 660 meters of vertical insanity
For more than a year ago we’ve climbed Shanghai Tower certainly not expecting the resonance and the amount of feedback we’ve got. And so, that amount of feedback led us to an idea of making a tradition of roof toping new skyscrapers all around the world. Today’s hero of attention is a new financial center still under construction and is situated in Shenzhen, China. Right now its height is about 660 meters and that makes it the second tallest tower in the world. Right after Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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Climbing Table Mountain With South Africa's Alex Honnold
We’ve done a lot of coverage of Alex Honnold over the past few years and it’s easy to forget that there are plenty of other free soloists operating out there. One who you probably won’t have heard of is South African Matt Bush, who’s been quietly soloing some of the hardest routes in his native Country for many years.
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Top 3 Solo Climbs Of 2014
Now we come to think about it, running our solo episode on a day notorious for hangovers might not have been the best idea. However if you think you can stomach it, we've got one hell of a show for you.
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A Lost Climber's Pack Emerges 30 Years After an Avalanche
In 1986, two climbers died on Mount Baker in Washington state. Nearly 30 years later, the mountain gave something back.
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