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By Paavan MATHEMA Agence France-Presse KATHMANDU, June 9, 2023 (AFP) — Scaling Everest is always dangerous, but expedition organizers have warned that a combination of extreme weather, corner-cutting on safety, and inexperienced and “impatient” foreign climbers has resulted in one of the peak’s deadliest mountaineering seasons. As the last search and rescue teams hang up their boots and the tent city at base camp packs up for the year, expert climbers say several of the […]
by Julia ZAPPEI Agence France-Presse MAYRHOFEN, Austria (AFP) — He’s over 80, but the Austrian climber Peter Habeler — one half of the duo that was first to scale Everest without supplemental oxygen — is still fantastically fit and scaling mountain peaks, which he calls his “fountain of youth”. Many thought it impossible when he and Reinhold Messner of Italy — both Tyroleans — set out to conquer the world’s highest peak in 1978 without […]
Kathmandu, Nepal (AFP) by Paavan MATHEMA The body of top US ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was retrieved from the Himalayas by a search team on Wednesday, two days after she disappeared on the slopes of Nepal’s Manaslu peak. Nelson slipped and went missing while skiing down the world’s eighth-highest mountain after a successful summit with her partner Jim Morrison on Monday. Morrison led the search operations and had left Wednesday morning on a helicopter […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) — Three mountaineers died and 12 were injured after they fell while climbing Ecuador’s Carihuairazo volcano, rescue services said Saturday. “A 47-year-old woman and two men aged 45 and 50 died in this emergency,” ECU911 rescue services said in a statement. “Due to weather conditions and nightfall, it was not possible to evacuate the bodies.” The 12 injured, aged between 39 and 58, were transferred to hospitals in the towns of […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Two climbers from the United States and Switzerland have died on Mount Everest, becoming the first fatalities of this year’s season, expedition organisers in Nepal said Thursday. “Two climbers passed away on Wednesday,” Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks told AFP. The Swiss climber died near the summit after reaching the top and was suffering from exhaustion, said Chhang Dawa Sherpa from the same organisation. “We sent two additional Sherpas with […]
by Paavan MATHEMA KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Former Gurkha soldier Nirmal Purja remains on target to conquer the world’s 14 highest mountains in a record-breaking seven months despite death-defying queues on the biggest peak of them all. Waiting for more than seven hours last week to get to the top of Everest and then back to the safety of his camp — in a pile-up that he documented in a photo that has gone viral […]
(Eagle News) — Dahil sa pinsalang dulot ng naganap na forest fire sa bahagi ng Poblacion Village at Eddet Village sa Kabayan town sa lalawigan ng Benguet, pansamanatalang isinara sa mga turista ang Akiki trail na siyang pangunahing ruta patungong Mt. Pulag. Kasunod nito ay ang pagsasara rin sa Mt. Pulag upang magsagawa ng rehabilitasyon sa lugar para sa seguridad at kaligtasan ng publiko partikular na sa mga trekker. Sa ngayon ay hindi pa inilalabas […]
by Annabel Symington Agence France-Presse KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) — Poor regulation and overcrowding are pushing Everest climbers away from Nepal to China, which is investing millions to boost a rival path to the top of the world. Veteran climbing outfits, fed up with what they regard as a lax attitude to safety on Nepal’s southern flank of the 8,848-meter (29,029-foot) peak, are starting to shift operations to Everest’s north side in Tibet. “The south side […]
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) – Three climbers died on Everest over the weekend and another is missing, officials confirmed Monday, in one of the deadliest episodes on the peak since an avalanche swept through base camp killing 18 two years ago. More than a dozen climbers have also been rescued from the 8,848 metre (29,030 foot) mountain in the last three days after running into difficulties while attempting to summit, helicopter rescue operators told AFP. […]
