The intense physiological difficulties attending the attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, were described to members of the Royal Geographical Society by Major ...
The photograph shows seven members of the expedition trekking upwards on the north face of Mount Everest. It was taken by Noel Odell, the expedition's photographer, who was the last person to see ...
AT a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on November 6, Mr. Hugh Ruttledge described the Mount Everest Expedition of 1933, of which he was leader. The party left for the 350-mile march ...
Metcalfe, a 50-year-old doctor from Colorado, recently became the first American woman to ascend all 14 mountains above 8,000 ...
On this day in 1886, the German-Swiss mountaineer Gunter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was born. We detail his astonishing successes in ...
On her first climb above 8,000 meters – Mount Everest in 2017 – the typical expedition member was «a man in his mid-40s, in the throes of a midlife crisis.» This is no longer the case.
Lhakpa Sherpa, world record holder for most Mount Everest summits by a woman, has a story marked by both triumph and ...
The expedition built on successes from the 2019 Mount Everest Expedition. Since 2010, Santiago and central Chile have faced below average precipitation and the longest drought in modern ...
In 1934, a Polish expedition successfully tackled a more perilous route ... Aconcagua / Paulo Ricardo Fagundes - iStock by Getty Images John Waechter reached the summit of Mt. Everest (29,029 ft.) on ...
Perry came to the Nevada State Climate Office based at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Geography after work as ...
a veteran of six expeditions climbing Mount Everest, died at his home in Nantes, France, when he was trying to replace a light bulb and fell from the ladder, striking his head. The earliest ...
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