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On 03/11/2024 French climber Caroline Ciavaldini repeated ‘Greenspit (8b/+) in Valle dell’Orco, Italy. On Tuesday 29th of October, Austrian climber Barbara Zangerl repeated 'Magic Line' (5.14c /8c+) in Yosemite Valley, California. 25-year-old Yannick Flohé has repeated Janus (9a+) at Angerstein in the Frankenjura, Germany.
Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler, 40 years ago ...
Mount Everest, first climbed without supplementary oxygen by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler on 8 May 1978. At around 1:15 pm on May 8, 1978, precisely 40 years ago today, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler reached the summit of Everest without the use of supplementary oxygen. Up there on the 8848 meter high summit they took some pictures ...
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On 03/11/2024 French climber Caroline Ciavaldini repeated ‘Greenspit (8b/+) in Valle dell’Orco, Italy. 06/11/2024 - Climbing. Sweeping climbing bans announced at Arapiles in Australia. Parks Victoria and the Victorian Government in Australia have announced huge increases in areas banned to rock climbing.
The Last Mountain: the story of Tom Ballard - PlanetMountain.com
Apr 24, 2020 · In February 2019 30-year-old Tom Ballard and 42-year-old Daniele Nardi perished while attempting to scale Nanga Parbat in winter. Ballard was the son of world-famous mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, reputed to be one of the greatest female climbers of all times who died on K2 in 1995. Their compelling lives are explored in the BBC's The Last ...
Forcella Laghet, Marmolada - Cima Uomo, Dolomites
Forcella Laghet. This is an interesting and not particularly demanding circular route. The ascent through the Val di Tasca is simple, and followed by a long, sunny descent back towards San Pellegrino. Spring snow conditions render this itinerary unforgettable. Reach Passo San Pellegrino (1907m) from Valle Agordina by turning off at Cencenighe.
Remembering Jerzy Kukuczka, the legendary Polish mountaineer
With Artur Hajzer, 13/10/1988. Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald. 30 years today: on 24 October 1989, Polish mountaineer Jerzy Kukuczka died while attempting Lhotse. Kukuczka was the second man to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders after Reinhold Messner and an absolute legend of high altitude Himalayan mountaineering.
Marc-André Leclerc and Ryan Johnson officially presumed dead in …
1 / 1. Marc-André Leclerc presumed deceased in Alaska together with Ryan Johnson after having climbed a new route up the Main Tower of the Mendenhall Towers. Marc-André Leclerc. An expedition to Alaska has ended in the worst possible way for 25-year-old Canadian Marc-André Leclerc and 34-year-old Ryan Johnson, two highly experienced ...
Alpinismo, arrampicata, notizie di montagna su PlanetMountain.com
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Welcome to the new planetmountain website
Sep 11, 2023 · After months and months of development, Planetmountain unveils today its new website featuring a responsive, mobile-friendly layout, a new site navigation and a more pleasent user experience. The project of an online magazine was born in 1996, when the internet - in Italy at least - was in its embryonic stages and the photos we published couldn ...
Nirmal Purja and the film 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
In 2019 36-year-old Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal 'Nims' Purja took the climbing world by storm with his ascents of all 14 eightthousanders in the world in less than 7 months.The historic achievement, carried out with supplementary oxygen and including three dangerous high altitude rescues, was at the limit of what is possibile and as of 29 …