from The Adventure Blog
Earlier this week, Italian mountaineer HansKammerlander became the first person to climb the "Second Seven Summits," which are the mountains that are the second highest on each of the seven continents. Kammerlander complete his quest in Antarctica, where he reached the top of the 4851 meter (15,916 ft) Mt. Tyree. According to the Adventure Journal , Hans is just the eighth person to nab that summit in the past 15 years. Kammerlander climbed his first "second-seven" back in 2001, when he successfully topped
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from The BMC News
Two Italians from the famous Ragni di Lecco have completed their four-year quest to establish a new 17-pitch route on Switzerland's famous limestone escarpment, the Wendenstock.
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from Stevie Haston
Walter is the last Grivel to work with Iron, actually he is iron, and always has been made of iron. So I have known him for a long time but Walter goes back a few years before me and used to work with the forge and the hammer. We were talking the other day about my first pair of crampons, that I had in 1973 and the chances are that he made them. It was he or his mate, working side by side sometimes. Anyway when I said they were a very good pair very stiff, he claimed responsibility, Walter is like me in
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from The Adventure Blog
Long distance runner Alex Bellini has set out on one heck of a run. A month ago, the Italian set out from Los Angeles on a road run that will take him more than 4900km (3045 miles) to New York. He hopes to run 70 stages, each 70km (43.5 miles) in length, to complete the run in just 70 days. Alex is currently 32 days into the run and is making his way across Oklahoma. If you're at all aware of the current weather conditions here in the U.S., you know that at the moment that region is getting hit with a ...
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from Stevie Haston
The Coumayeur Trailers club of runners organise only a few races a year, but they are humdingers. As their name suggests they are based around Courmayeur and the Valdigne takes its name from the upper Aosta valley in Northen Italy were I am based at the moment. Last year the Trailers ran a short Valdigne of 49 and a long of 87 kilometres, with the appropriate amount of up and down. This year the short is 25, a medium of 55 with 3670 up and down, and a long of 100km with 5000 + of up and down. I tried a bit
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from Stevie Haston
Stopping at a local pushbike shop to satisfy my love of fondling tubes and suchlike on a fancy swank velocipede, I was struck more than ever by the magic of bikes. It didn’t help of course that these bikes were Lapierre, sponsor for the last French team in the Tour. Lapierre bikes are works of art, I can’t afford one, but the guy doesn’t mind me coming in and dribbling over them. Anyway after this reverie of pleasantness it was out, and go climbing! But as a last delay I stopped off to put a few ...
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from The Mountain Blogspot
The N Face of Les Droites with the Ginat line "Unlike the Bonatti pillar, the Walker or even the Freney, it seems improbable that the North Face of Les Droites will ever be donwgraded, or become popular and lose its character. It will always remain remote and untamed." Gaston Rebuffat. If Rebuffat turned ever so slightly in his grave upon Ueli Stecksummiting in about 4 minutes, then he'd have been thrashing about given the 20 people on the route the day before us. With the stellar climbing conditions we'd
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from The Adventure Blog
It looks like things are really starting to get interesting on Everest, as a new forecast has a weather window opening later this week that should allow the first good access to the summit of the mountain. It seem that the climbers will be looking to take advantage of it as well, with plans to begin the ascent tomorrow. In his latest dispatch , Eric Larsen lays out his summit plans that begin with a climb to Camp 2 tomorrow, before moving on to Camp 3 on Wednesday. If the weather holds, and everyone is ...
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from Savage Climbing
Language: There are four national languages in Switzerland: German, French, Italian, and Rumantsch. In Ticino, the Southern-most region of Switzerland, Italian is spoken. In Italian if a C is followed by an I or an E, it is pronounced like CH. Also, Es and Is are pronounced different than in English. For example, Ticino is [...]
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from The Alpinist - newswire
In the May 2, 2010 NewsWire , Alpinist reported that three Germans had reached the west summit (2145m) of Monte Sarmiento, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Our story also said that the Germans believed they had made the first ascent of Sarmiento's north face. However, further research suggests that a 1986 Ragni di Lecco Italian party--the first climbers to reach Sarmiento's west summit--had also ascended the north face. Now, if only we knew who they were. Normally with a discovery of this nature, Alpinist.com ...
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