from The Alpinist - newswire
Keywords:
Staeheli,
Niederer,
Cutler,
wind,
camp,
19,500 feet,
helicopter,
feet,
Mountain Trip,
high camp
One climber has died on the West Buttress of Denali and another four are injured after a series of accidents high on the mountain. All of the climbers have been removed from the mountain, but the exact details of the accident are still being determined. On May 11 a six-man team from Mountain Trip began their final push for the summit of Denali (20,320'), North America's highest peak, via the West Buttress route. The team consisted of Tony Diskin, Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Beat Niederer and Lawrence Cutler, with
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from The Adventure Blog
Philippe Crozon , a 42-year old Frenchman who had his arms and legs amputated more than 15 years ago, swam across the English Channel this past weekend with the aid of special prosthetics. The challenging swim was expected to take as much as 24-hours to complete, but he managed to finish up in just 13 1/2 hours instead. Philippe began his journey on Saturday at the British town of Folkerstone and ended at Wissant on the French side of the Channel. He covered 21 miles of open water in between, and was ...
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from Weekend Sherpa - Get outdoors in the Bay Area
The northern migration of gray whales is blowing up. Catch them in action along the San Mateo and Santa Cruz coast on any of these three whale-watching excursions. Good cetaceans! Whoa Watching Theres whale watching and then theres whoa watching. Get up close to the largest animals on Earth from the seat of a kayak. Bob around the ocean as 50-foot whales cruise by, their massive dark silhouettes growing more clear until pshoooblowhole! Dave Johnston of Venture Quest can make the magic happen; for the past
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from Life in the Vertical
I recent treated myself to a GPS, whilst it is something that as a qualified Mountaineering Instructor it is something that I have lived without and navigated successfully without since 1997. Times change and seeing that the retail price of GPS's is down to around £80 for some Garmin models, their use is on the increase, and I am often asked to teach people how to use them effectively. Now having used a few models before I choose the Garmin GPS 60 because until other GPS where the navigation through the
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