from Climber's Blog
Black Diamond grassroots athlete Doug Chabot teamed up with Bruce Miller and Steve Su for a expedition to the unclimbed peaks of northern Pakistan’s Hunza region in August. Below is Chabot’s report and photos about the team’s first ascent on Hisp...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
The rock was limestone and mostly not so good quality, but the mountains were steep and beautiful.-Bas van der Smeede From July 9 - August 14, Dutch climbers Bas van der Smeede, Saskia Groen, Bas Visscher and Vincent van Beek pioneered six previously unnamed and unclimbed peaks in an expedition to Kyrgyzstan's Pamir-Alai Mountains. Just north of the Chinese border, the team discovered steep 4,000 - 5,000 meter peaks in the Oibala range. "As far as we could find," said Smeede, "the area has never been ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
On May 5, Russian climbers Alexander Ruchkin and Mikhail Mikhailov succeeded over the course of four days in making first ascent of the Greenland's Shark's Tooth (1555m), via the northwest ridge, a shield of jutting granite located in southeastern Ren Land on the Edward Bailey Glacier. They graded their twenty-one pitch ascent Russian Grade 6A: 6A, 6c A2, 1200m. While the Russian's were the first to climb this peak, they were not the first to explore the remote Edward Bailey Glacier. In 2007 a party of ...
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from The Adventure Blog
Climbers looking for a few sponsorship dollars for their next big climb may want to apply online for the the second annual Copp-Dash Inspire Award . The prize will be awarded to help support small teams that are taking on unclimbed peaks in remote regions of the planet. The challenges will likely require a high skill level to complete, with an emphasis on going in a fast and light style. Those applying should also demonstrate a plan topersonally document and share their ascents through a multimedia blend
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from INCLINED
The American Alpine Club’s Mountain Fellowship Committee recently announced eight selections for Fall 2010. The biannual award, begun in 1966, encourages climbers under the age of 25 to explore uncharted territory; award winners usually target unfrequented ranges, unclimbed peaks, or difficult new routes. While grants are not large enough to finance a trip entirely, the [...]
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from The Alpinist - newswire
M ore than a hundred previously restricted peaks in India's Jammu and Kashmir regions will open to climbing this upcoming season. As reported in the December 29, 2009 NewsWire , the India Mountaineering Federation and India's Ministry of Tourism had proposed the measure last year; now with approval from India's Ministry of Defense and Ministry of Home Affairs, the measure will go into effect this summer, opening at least 104 mountains. Affected summits range from 3000 to 7800 meters, or 9,842 to 25,590 ...
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from The Adventure Blog
The National Geographic Adventure Blog continues to keep us up to date on all manner of stories from the outdoor world. Today, they have a story about a team of climbers that have recently climbed a remote peak in China, and made the first ski descent of the mountain . The climbing team, which consisted of Kasha Rigby, Ingrid Backstrom, Guila Monega, and Jimmy Chin, made their way to Western China to challenge the 20,000 foot Reddomaine, a summit that falls in the Minya Konka massif. The mountain itself
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from The Alpinist - newswire
This August, four Dutch climbers established basecamp on the Ren Land peninsula of Greenland with hopes of climbing new routes, particularly an alpine-style ascent of The Cenotaph and a big-wall ascent of Shark Tooth, both unclimbed. Though impassable rivers kept them from Shark Tooth, the team established numerous lines throughout the region and nabbed what they believe to be three virgin summits: The Cenotaph, McDonnell Peak and Small Lion. Ren Land is located on Greenland's east coast just north of ...
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from www.arareko.net
Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura recently returned from another trip to the Nyainqentanglha East and Kangri Garpo West regions of Tibet, where he has been documenting unclimbed peaks and glaciers for nearly two decades. Nakamura spent five weeks in October and November traveling 4800 kilometers south and west of Qamdo, the launching point for his expedition. The massive clockwise loop allowed him to access and photograph four untouched valleys: Dangchu in Kangri Garpo West, then three more to the ...
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from The Alpinist - newswire
Japanese explorer Tamotsu Nakamura recently returned from another trip to the Nyainqentanglha East and Kangri Garpo West regions of Tibet, where he has been documenting unclimbed peaks and glaciers for nearly two decades. Nakamura spent five weeks in October and November traveling 4800 kilometers south and west of Qamdo, the launching point for his expedition. The massive clockwise loop allowed him to access and photograph four untouched valleys: Dangchu in Kangri Garpo West, then three more to the ...
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