from The Adventure Blog
The winter season will certainly be an interesting one this year. Not only are the Russians taking on K2 , but now ExWeb is reporting that Lonnie Dupre will return to Denali, where he hopes to make the first solo winter ascent of that mountain in January. This will be round 2 for Dupre and Denali, with the mountain winning their first bout last year. Last year, Dupre traveled to Alaska in the coldest and darkest portion of winter just to attempt to scale the 6193 meter (20,320 ft) peak at the most ...
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from The Adventure Blog
While we're on the subject of Antarctica this morning, I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge another important date in the history of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Race. A couple of weeks back I wrote a piece about Amundsen setting off on his journey, and today marks the 100 year anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott beginning his fateful trek to the South Pole as well. When Scott set off from England to start his polar journey, he actually had no idea that he would end up in a race with Amundsen. In early
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from The Alpinist - newswire
The following News Flash is a preliminary report on a breaking story. Alpinist.com will post a follow-up when more information become available. -Ed According to a British Mountaineering Council report , Mick Fowler and BMC CEO Dave Turnbull have made the first ascent of Mugu Chuli (6310m) in western Nepal. In a brief message Turnbull told the BMC, "Success on Gojung (aka Mugu Chuli) 4 days up 3 days down + storm on top. Harder than expected and difficult descent." Mugu Chuli was first reported in 2008 by
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from Scottish Tooling Series
Since 2010 the STS has been organised on a non-profit basis by Pete Hill and Neil Silver two keen dry-tooling enthusiasts and competitors. The workload involved in organising the series is not insubstantial and with the intention of improving the series and achieving the aims of the community over the next couple of years we [...]
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from The Adventure Blog
When you want to build a house, you hire an architect. When you want to design an airplane, you get an aeronautical engineer. It only makes sense that if you want the best backpack possible for adventure racing, you go to the best adventure racer ever. With three Eco-Challenge wins, five Primal Quest titles, and four world championships to his name, Mike Kloser has an adventure racing resume that few can match. He has years of experience in races of various lengths and in various environments, and he has
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from The Alpinist - newswire
S lovenian climbers made the first ascent of a major summit in the Western Kokshaal-too of Kyrgyzstan this season. Pik Byeliy (5697m) was the highest unclimbed peak in the Western Kokshaal-too and has been the objective of many expeditions to the area over the past decade. The Western Kokshaal-too forms part of the Tien Shan range along the border of China and Kyrgyzstan. Americans Jerry Dodrill, Mike Libecki, Doug and Jed Workman made the first major attempt at Peak Byeliy in 2000 from the southwest ridge
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from Climber's Blog
A couple of months ago I started a project that has grown into a much bigger gorillathan anything I have done beforeon the blog.A month ago I made my intentions public to do a side by side comparison of the newest high tech shells/jackets t...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
C ati Llado and Tomeu Rubi from Mallorca, Spain added to the long list of first ascents in Kyrgyzstan by climbing two new peaks, Rakhmat (5144m) and Tueshuenboeduem (5081m). The climbers left the heat of Spain for the appeal of the Djangart valley with its many unclimbed peaks on July 13 with the intention of spending twenty-one days climbing in the valley. The Djangart's remote location and rugged terrain make the access difficult. After spending three days in a twenty-five-year-old car suffering from ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Two Australian Adventurers,James Castrission and Justin Jones, have announced their intentions to ski unsupported to the South Pole and then return to their starting point along the Antarctic coast later this year in an effort to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous Amundsen-Scott race to the Pole. The duo plan to begin their expedition, which they've dubbed Crossing The Ice , this October. They estimate that it will take upwards of three months for them to cover the 2200km (1367 miles) on foot,
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from The Adventure Blog
After weeks of preparations, acclimatization, and patiently waiting, it appears to be go time on K2, where several teams are preparing to head up today and begin a summit push. If they are successful, it'll be the first time that anyone has stood on top of that mountain since the tragic 2008 season, when 11 people perished on August 1st, which just so happens to also be today's date. Fabrizio Zangrili has finally updated his blog for the first time in a month, and he notes that his team will begin moving
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