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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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Google Brings Street View To Mount Everest Region
Most of us will never travel to the Khumbu region of Nepal, which is home to Mount Everest, but thanks to Google’s Street View, you can now get a better idea of what this part of the world looks like (and some Far Cry 4 players will find it looks quite familiar to them).
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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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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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World's Best Hikes: Summit Hikes - National Geographic
While there are plenty of wondrous mountaintops on the planet, for this list we chose our favorite peaks based on both the walk up and the larger history of the place.
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Meru (2015)
Opening in theaters August 14th. In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and an irresistible calling for some of the world's toughest climbers.
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The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body
Mount Everest is home to more than 200 bodies. Rachel Nuwer investigates the sad and little-known story behind its most prominent resident, ‘Green Boots’.
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Setting a Multi-Pitch Anchor
A description of how to set a multi-pitch anchor, and discussion of the important factors in multi-pitch belay anchors.
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What Was Photographer Jimmy Chin’s Scariest Climb?
It’s not very often that a world-class climber and photographer agrees to answer any question asked—live! But that’s just what happened last week on our Nat Geo Adventure Facebook page …
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Why K2 Brings Out the Best and Worst in Those Who Climb It
Mountaineers risk avalanches, storms, conflicts, and a curse when they attempt to summit the peak.
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Nepal climbers face ruin after quake, blockade hits Everest industry
Phurba Tashi Sherpa, the most accomplished high-altitude climber in history, holds a bucket and crowbar as he claws through the rubble of his home seven months after Nepal's earthquake shattered the country... By Andrew MacAskill.
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Nobody Reached the Top of Mount Everest in 2015
For the first time since 1974, nobody climbed to the top of Mount Everest last year. In spite of being the subject of a major movie, the world's tallest peak remained untouched by human beings, as a series of tragedies and avalanches led to the mountain being effectively shut off. Commercial organisations were stopped from bringing expeditions to the mountain, in the aftermath of the horrific earthquake that killed thousands in Nepal in April 2015.
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Tougher than Everest? How Hkakabo Razi broke Nat Geo’s climbers, and their gear
An expedition team set out to explore Hkakabo Razi. What they found was a treacherous journey that challenged their bodies and gear.
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Sherpa: Norbu Tenzing on the Everest ‘circus’ and the inevitability of another disaster
Film-maker Jennifer Peedom and the son of history’s most famous Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, on how his people are stuck between a rock and a hard place. By Luke Buckmaster.
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Dave Morton Is Quitting Everest. Maybe. (It's Complicated)
After two years of unimaginable tragedy, everyone from outfitters and Sherpas to would-be climbers and the Nepalese government is questioning the future of commercial mountaineering. And then there’s David Morton, a veteran guide who spent the past year asking: What happens when you try to leave the world’s most lucrative mountain forever? By Abe Streep.
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Avalanche fears over unauthorised Everest helicopter flights
Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say. Sherpas have expressed concerns that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches. Tourist flights are not allowed to places above Base Camp which is at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17,600ft). But helicopter companies say they only overfly sights like the Khumbu Icefall and their flights are allowed.
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Woman Trying to Prove ‘Vegans Can Do Anything’ Dies on Mount Everest
An Australian woman who set out to climb Mount Everest to prove that “vegans can do anything” died Saturday after developing altitude sickness. Maria Strydom, 34, had reached the final camp from the summit before she and her husband, Robert Gropel, both began suffering from high-altitude pulmonary edema, which caused fluid to build up in Strydom’s brain, the Washington Post reports.
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What happens to your body on Mount Everest
"Human beings aren't built to function at the cruising altitude of a 747," the voice in the trailer for the film "Everest" warns. "Our bodies will be literally dying." It's Rob Hall, played by actor Jason Clarke, as he prepares to lead an expedition up the world's highest peak. The film, also starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin, is based on a 1996 climb, when eight people died during a blizzard. This particular journey is well known: Its horrifying details were chronicled in Jon Krakaue
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How to Use the Internet on the Summit of Everest
A journey to Everest base camp to see how technology is changing the world’s highest peak. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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The Paradox of Doping in Mountain Climbing
We’re usually comfortable deciding whether or not an athlete is doping. Lance Armstrong was definitely doping by using erythropoietin. Tennis player Novak Djokovic, on the other hand, was definitely not doping when he slept in an egg-shaped barometric chamber. We tell one from the other by a kind of cultural gestalt, sorting out those who dope and those who don’t. Then we take that one step farther and reason: Those who don’t, compete cleanly—those that do, cheat. But what if a substance is both performance-enhancing and a benefit to an athlete’s health? What if that substance is oxygen?
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