Its victims include Ueli Steck, a renowned alpinist who fell 1km to his death in 2017.
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Named after the famed Polish alpinist Voytek Kurtyka, this steep, narrow gully was coated in water ice.
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Alex Lowe was a world-renowned alpinist -- many regarded him as the world's best climber at the time.
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Frost died on the same day as another alpinist and former climbing partner, Jeff Lowe, who was 19506.
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He died on the same day as another alpinist and former climbing partner, Tom Frost, who was 21979.
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Op-Ed Contributor NORTH CONWAY, N.H. — The Swiss alpinist Ueli Steck was probably the best mountain climber in the world.
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Writing in Alpinist magazine, Alex Lowther described Honnold's paralyzing fear during a bold solo ascent of Half Dome later that year.
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The inscription was particularly apt from an alpinist who had surveyed the world from its highest vantage point, on Everest, and survived.
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The earliest version is probably the MARWA screw, manufactured Mariner Wastl in 1958, according to an ice screw history published in the Alpinist.
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Hungarian alpinist Ferenc Lengyel walks around in the Manaslu Base Camp, at around 4,900 meters above the sea level, in Nepal on Sept. 15.
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Junko Tabei, a Japanese alpinist who became the first woman to scale Mount Everest and to ascend the highest summit of every continent, died on Oct.
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The expedition was the fifth time that Mr. Arnold, 35, an alpinist from Rotterdam, had tried to reach the summit, and on Friday he finally made it.
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In 1992, the French alpinist Pierre Béghin fell to his death, leaving his partner Jean-Christophe Lafaille to descend the face alone in a harrowing multiday ordeal.
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A surface module (SM) would land near the south pole of Enceladus and then deploy a descent module (DM) that would act much like a human alpinist.
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" In an e-mail to VICE Sports, Alpinist editor Katie Ives writes, "I think even many experienced, longtime climbers see Alex Honnold's accomplishments as something that's almost beyond the edge of comprehension.
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Capitol Hill may only stand 88 feet above sea level, but trekking to the highest court in the land necessitates a political alpinist, so the nominee doesn't plunge into a Senate crevasse.
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Steve House, an American alpinist who knew Mr. Steck for about 15 years, said on Sunday that his friend had become a giant in the sport thanks to his focus on self-improvement.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — An accomplished Japanese alpinist and motivational speaker, who lost nine fingers to frostbite on a previous attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest, died on the world's highest peak on Monday, after he slipped and fell.
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Later, I'd picked up a book about Ötzi, and found myself drawn in by the heroic pathos of this ur-Alpinist, whose preserved body and effects individuated him with eerie clarity through the vast tract of time since he died.
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At once a blend of Poland's catholic sensibilities, cosmological ignorance, and Jerzy's natural observations from his time spent in the mountains (he was an avid alpinist), his lunar trilogy is a fantastic odyssey to a moon where fire burns green, liquid oceans harbor untold varieties of fish, and strange moon fowl run wild on the lunar terrain.
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Anne, Le Massif, and Stoneham.) QUEBEC Baie-Saint-Paul Le Germain Charlevoix Jacques- Cartier National Park Le Massif de Charlevoix Le Massif Chalets Montmorency St. Lawrence R. Mont-Sainte-Anne Stoneham Mountain Resort Château Mont- Sainte-Anne La Souche Stoneham Île d'Orléans Manoir du Lac Delage CANADA Quebec City (detail below) Cabane A Sucre Leclerc 244.95 miles Canada Quebec Trois-Rivières Montreal Ontario Me. Vt. N.Y. Auberge Saint-Antoine Old city Restaurant Le Continental Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Quebec City By The New York Times I must confess here that I consider myself an alpinist in the New Orleans tradition: I ski the blues.
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Yūichirō Miura (November, 2007) is a Japanese skier and alpinist.
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Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803 – 1888) was an English writer, alpinist and cricketer.
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Alpinist is a quarterly American magazine focused on mountain literature and mountaineering ascents worldwide.
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Renzo Videsott (10 September 1904 – 4 January 1974) was an Italian alpinist and conservationist.
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Hereford Brooke George (1838–1910) was an English barrister, academic and historian, also known as an alpinist.
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They were followed by female Russian alpinist Maria Preobrazhenskaya, who made the climb nine times starting in 1900.
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Bishop, p.104:"the first recorded Alpinist, the first to climb a mountain because it is there." and Burckhardt's insistence on Petrarch's sensitivity to nature have been often repeated since.E.g. Kimmelman, who sees Petrarch's letter as early environmental writing. There are also numerous references to Petrarch as an "alpinist",E.g.
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Ohannés Gurekian (, ; August 24, 1902 in Constantinople - March 1, 1984 in Asolo) was an Armenian architect, engineer, and alpinist.
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Michael Kennedy is an American rock climber, alpinist, photographer, writer and editor. From 1974 to 1998 he was the editor of Climbing magazine, an American climbing magazine. In March 2009, he took the position of Editor-in- Chief of Alpinist magazine. His son Hayden Kennedy, also a renowned climber, died in October 2017.
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Robert J. Lendlmayer von Lendenfeld (1858-1913) was an Austrian zoologist, alpinist, and traveler. He was also a notable spongiologist.
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Appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, MSNBC and OLN. He is an author of articles for Alpinist Magazine, Transworld Snowboarding Magazine, Snowboarder, Mountain Zone.com, Men's Journal Magazine and American Alpine Journal. His photography work has been published in Men's Journal Magazine, Outside Magazine, National Geographic Adventure Magazine, American Alpine Journal, and Alpinist Magazine.
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Johannes Frischauf (17 September 1837 in Vienna – 7 January 1924 in Graz) was an Austrian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geodesist and alpinist.
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Mark Wilford (born January 27, 1959, Boulder, Colorado) is an American rock climber and alpinist known for his bold, traditional style.
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John Birkbeck (6 July 1817 - 31 July 1890)Foster 1890, Birkbeck Pedigree p.95 was a Yorkshireman, banker, alpinist, and pioneer potholer.
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Mira "Marko" Debelak-Deržaj was a Slovenian alpinist, skier, and journalist, born December 26, 1904 in Sarajevo, and died September 27, 1948, Ljubljana.
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Luis Trenker (born Alois Franz Trenker, 4 October 1892 – 13 April 1990) was a South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, alpinist, and bobsledder.
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The use of chalk then spread internationally throughout the climbing world. At the same time he introduced controlled dynamics, recommending it as a technique of choice, as well as one of necessity. According to Alpinist magazine, "his introduction of chalk and dynamic movement marked the beginning of modern climbing in America."Editors,Alpinist Magazine #12, 2005 Gill's climbing style showed the influence of formal gymnastics.
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Mike Mortimer (born 15 October 1950) is a Canadian alpinist. He was president of the Alpine Club of Canada and the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA).
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He was a competent alpinist, with at least half of his ascents being made guideless.In Memoriam: Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal Vol.27, May 1960, pp.81-86.
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Emmanuel Boileau de Castelnau, ca. 1880 Henri Emmanuel Boileau, baron de Castelnau (1857-1923) was a French alpinist who took part in the first ascent of the Meije.
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But the alpinist who decides to climb a mountain peak or rock face direttissima may only depart slightly from the vertical line to the summit during his ascent.
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A bivouac was built at the site in 1924 on the initiative of the English alpinist Stuart Jenkins, and the current building was built at the same location in 1946.
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In 2010, Mike and Swiss mountain guide/alpinist Köbi Reichen reach the summit of Broad Peak (8047 m) without the use of additional oxygen in the Karakoram mountain range in Pakistan.
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Their bodies were retrieved by helicopter.Bergsteiger Edi Koblmüller tödlich verunglückt ooe. ORF.at April 17, 2015Linzer Profibergsteiger Koblmüller erfroren, ORF.at April 17, 2015Unglück am Kasbek: Alpinist Edi Koblmüller und Bergkameradin erfroren, kronenzeitung.
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Retrieved February 11th, 2020 2017 - Rim Wall, Canadian Rockies - Pinko (5.10). First Free Solo Ascent 2017 - Ha Ling Peak, Mount Lawrence Grassi - Cheesmond Express (5.10), Premature Ejaculation (5.10+), Northeast Face (5.7) Free Solos 2016 - Mount Robson, Canadian Rockies – Infinite Patience (VI 5.9 M5 WI5, 2200m). First Solo Ascent Ives, Katie "Off Route and Out of Time - The Sharp End, Alpinist 56" The Alpinist. Retrieved February 2020 2016 - Mount Tuzo, Canadian Rockies – Northeast Face (M7+ WI6+R, 1,110 metres).
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Grace E. "Betty" Lotowycz ( born Grace Elizabeth Ashwell, May 11, 1916 – died April 8, 2016) was an American botanist, a pioneering woman alpinist, and Women Airforce Service Pilot in World War II.
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He has reported from Kurdistan, the Himalayas and the Siberian Arctic. He realized his passion as an alpinist while a technician and teacher for the development aid organization "Öko Himal" in Nepal.
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Their son Ludwig Norman Neruda was a famous alpinist. As conductor, he is remembered for premiering Franz Berwald's fourth symphony on 9 April 1878.Woodstra, Chris; Brennan, Gerald; Schrott, Allen (2005). . CMP Media.
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Examples of Burlington's work in still photography survive as well as illustrations in period trade journals, papers, and books. His noted 1914 volume How to Become an Alpinist features 63 of his photographs.
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The height of the bigger water flow is even (around) . Waterfalls in this wildness attract mountain-climbers, tourists and fishermen, and the vertical rocky wall under the river's falls is suitable for alpinist exercises.
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E. S. Kennedy should not be confused with T. S. Kennedy of Leeds, an alpinist who made several first ascents during the same period (e.g. Dent Blanche (1862), Moine ridge of the Aiguille Verte (1865)).
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He shared memories of some of his climbs in a volume he published in London in 1914, How to Become An Alpinist.Burlingham, Frederick, How To Become An Alpinist. London: T. Werner Laurie, [1914, pp. 52, 92.
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Phil Powers (born 20 February 1961) is an American alpinist, author and educator. He is famous for his first ascent of the Washburn Face of Denali, as well as his significant leadership roles within the climbing industry.
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Paul Preuss Paul Preuss (spelled Preuß in German; pronounced Proyce) (19 August 1886 – 3 October 1913) was an Austrian alpinist who achieved recognition for his bold solo ascents and for his advocacy of an ethically "pure" alpinism.
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Alpinist was founded in 2002 and was originally published out of Jackson, Wyoming. It was resurrected in 2009, and is now based in Jeffersonville, Vermont. The magazine often focuses on "fast and light" ascents and advocates a rigorous clean- climbing style (not leaving gear behind). Alpinist won the Maggie Award for Best Overall Design/Consumer Category from the Western Publication Association (WPA) for its Autumn issue (Issue 8) in 2005, and the Maggie Award for the Best Quarterly/Consumer Division in April 2004 for its Winter 2003–2004 issue (Issue 5).
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The route first climbed by Barmasse extends over 1200 metres, 500m of which are in a frozen couloir with the rest of the route on the vertical and overhanging face of Picco Muzio. This achievement evokes the feat accomplished in 1965 by the great alpinist Walter Bonatti – the only person to have solo climbed a new route on the Matterhorn before Barmasse. On completing this achievement, Bonatti bid farewell to his career as an extreme alpinist. In 2012 Barmasse made a film about the Exploring the Alps project, called Not so far.
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The film stars Estonian actress Laine Mägi as Anne, an older woman who travels to Paris to care for an elderly Estonian émigré named Frida (played by French actress Jeanne Moreau), only to discover that she is not wanted.Amrion Une Estonienne à Paris Retrieved 21 January 2017. In 2015, Lass had a starring role as Anne in the Urmas Eero Liiv directed thriller Must alpinist for Kopli Kinokompanii. The film is based on a 1989 incident involving director Urmas Eero LiivHollywood Reporter Ghost Mountaineer ('Must alpinist'): Film Review. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
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Stanhope Speer, Physician and Alpinist: In 1853, First to Describe Mountain Sickness? High Altitude Medicine & Biology 16 (4): 358-362. In 1844 he was the first man to climb the Mittelhorn, the highest summit of the Wetterhorn in Switzerland.
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Silvia Vidal (b. December 17, 1970) is a professional Spanish big wall climber, explorer and alpinist from Barcelona, Spain. She is particularly known for her big wall soloing accomplishments in remote mountain regions of Pakistan, India, Patagonia and Alaska.
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She is the mother of alpinist Finn Christian Jagge. She won ten national tennis championships in double, and one in mixed double. In 1962 she became Norwegian champion in all four alpine disciplines (slalom, giant slalom, downhill and alpine combined).
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It has been reprinted numerous times and also has been reproduced on coffee mugs and other objects. Brossé also designed bookplates, including one in 1912 for the alpinist Spitalieri.Le Chevalier Victor Spitalieri de Cessole, un bibliophile, philanthrope et alpiniste, p. 29.
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Felix König, born around 1880, was a scientist and alpinist from Graz in Austria. He had acquired some experience of the Arctic in Greenland, and in 1911 he was invited to join Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–13.
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The slopes of Gartnerkofel is the only place where the endemic angiosperm Wulfenia carinthiaca plant grows in the wild. It was first discovered in 1799 by alpinist and botanist Franz Xaver von Wulfen and is now a popular garden plant.
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Alison Hargreaves and Jeff Lowe climbing Kangtega, 1 May 1986 Jeff Lowe (September 13, 1950 - August 24, 2018)Jeff Lowe, Best Alpinist of a Generation, Dies at 67 was a famed American alpinist from Ogden, Utah who was known for his visionary climbs and first ascents established in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps and Himalayas. He was a proponent of the "Alpine style" philosophy of climbing, where small teams travel fast with minimal gear. Lowe made over 1000 first ascents. Lowe was a co-founder of Lowe Alpine along with his brothers Greg Lowe and Mike Lowe.
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Portrait by Stanisław Wyspiański, 1905 Jerzy Żuławski (; 14 July 1874 - 9 August 1915) was a Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator, alpinist and nationalist whose best-known work is the science-fiction epic, Trylogia Księżycowa (The Lunar Trilogy), written between 1901 and 1911.
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Thames and Hudson, 1961, p. 221. Other regions notable for grass climbing include: the gorges of the Himalayas,Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal, Vol 32, Issues 171-174, 1980, p. 206. Scotland, Poland's Tatra Mountains,Alpinist, Issues 1-4, LLC, 2002, p. 68. and Lofoten.
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Dosio CAI, 4. Siogren Sweden, 5. Lory CAF, 6–8 Goetel, Klemensiewicz, Szatkowski Poland UIAA honorary member medal Charles Egmond d’Arcis (1887 – 7 December 1971) was a Swiss journalist and alpinist. He was the first president of the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA).
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Auer was born in Zams, Tyrol, on 18 February 1984, and lived in the Ötztal area of Tyrol. In 2017, he published an autobiography entitled Südwand, in which he describes his problems with anorexia. He considered the Italian alpinist Reinhold Messner to be a role model.
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Internet Archive. Retrieved May 8, 2020. In addition to being a basic guide on mountaineering, the book also features a chapter that introduces readers to the "galaxy" of women climbers in the sport and to their accomplishments in that period.How to Become an Alpinist, pp. 91-99.
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Reed is married to Nicola. The couple live in London and Wiltshire and have six children. His hobbies are said to include running, riding and driving horses, football and mountaineering. He has participated in two of Reed's annual Alpine Leadership Challenges led by the alpinist Stefan Gatt.
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Paul Helbronner (24 April 1871 – 18 October 1938) was a French topographer, alpinist and geodesist who pioneered cartography of the French Alps.Officiers topographes et Topographes-alpinistes dans les Alpes françaises, 1890-1940, Nicolas Guilhot Pointe Helbronner in the Mont Blanc massif is named in his honor.
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John Bragg is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for first ascents of difficult rock climbs in the Shawangunks and Colorado, and taking high grade rock skills to Patagonia, to make the first ascent of Torre Egger in 1976 with Jim Donini and Jay Wilson.
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The abbé Joseph-Marie Henry parish priest of Valpelline from 1903 to 1947, was a botanist, alpinist, historian and author of the Histoire populaire religieuse et civile de la vallée d'Aoste. The works of Mario Glassier, a dialect poet born in 1931 in Oyace, include L'etéila di bon berdzé.
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Rudi Schmid (2 May 1922 – 20 October 2007) was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing in hepatology. Schmid was born on 2 May 1922 to physician parents. He was born and raised in Glarus, which inspired his interest in mountain climbing. Schmid became a skilled alpinist and skier.
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He was born in Miercurea Ciuc (Csíkszereda), a town in Transylvania, Romania. He started mountain climbing in 1981 and climbed several Transylvanian mountains. He moved to Hungary in 1988 with his mother and brother, and became a Hungarian citizen in 1992. From 1989 he worked as an industrial alpinist.
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Pot is a novel by Slovenian author and climber (1952-1983). It was first published in Ljubljana, then part of Yugoslavia, in 1981. The book narrates, in a novelized way, Zaplotnik's life and experiences as an alpinist in postwar Slovenia, culminating in the ascension of both Makalu and Everest.
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Iñaki Ochoa de Olza (May 29, 1967 in Pamplona, Navarre - May 23, 2008 in Annapurna, Nepal) was a Spanish mountaineer, alpinist and climber. Ochoa de Olza took part in more than thirty separate climbing expeditions in the Himalayas over the course of his career, and he was involved in more than 200 expeditions as a guide. His records included climbing 12 of the world's 14 tallest mountains (repeating one of them, Cho Oyu) without the aid of oxygen. Ochoa went on record as saying that he did not believe in using oxygen to climb mountains, claiming "if you use oxygen, you are not an alpinist; you are more of an astronaut or a scuba diver.".
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SOIUSA code is the code used in the International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps (ISMSA or SOIUSA), a proposal by Italian Alpinist, Sergio Marazzi, to re-categorize the mountains and mountain ranges of the Alps. The proposal has been aired since 2005 but has yet to receive official recognition.
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An experienced alpinist, Jodko- Narkiewicz also climbed mountains in Africa and Spitsbergen.Jerzy Gembicki, Zbigniew Mitzner, Wzdłuż dalekiego brzegu: wybór reportaży z lat międzywojennych (1966), p. 737 online at books.google.comNiedoszły lot balonu nad Tatrami , page at r.ifj.edu.pl, accessed 13 November 2010 (in Polish) In 1929 he climbed the Iceland glacier Langjökull.
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The Garda Mountains have very few glaciers and ski resorts. The Alpinist centre of the range is the town of Arco. In the vicinity of Arco there are countless sport climbing areas. Lake Garda and its surrounding mountains are a popular destination for water sportsmen, mountain bikers, hikers and climbers.
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Marc-André Leclerc (October 10, 1992 – March 5, 2018) was a Canadian rock climber and alpinist. Known for his solo ascents of numerous mountains in various parts of the world, he completed the first winter solo ascents of the Torre Egger in Patagonia, and the Emperor Face of Mount Robson.
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Jim Donini (born July 23, 1943) is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for a long history of cutting-edge climbs in Alaska and Patagonia. He was president of the American Alpine Club from 2006 to 2009, and a 1999 recipient of the AAC's Robert and Miriam Underhill Award.
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The four peaks were first climbed on 12 July 1873 by Prague Alpinist, Victor Hecht, and mountain guide, Johann Außerhofer along the west side from the Clara Hut and over the Umbalgletscher glacier. At that time Hecht only distinguished four summits.Eduard Richter: Die Erschliessung der Ostalpen, Vol. III, Berlin, 1894, p.
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Krzysztof Łoziński (born 16 July 1948) is a Polish writer, publicist, alpinist, teacher and anti-communist opposition activist in Polish People's Republic. Krzysztof Łoziński was born in Warsaw on 16 July 1948. The son of Danuta, a doctor, and Jerzy, an architect. In 1967 he graduated from Liceum Ogólnokształcące im.
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Dean Spaulding Potter (April 14, 1972 – May 16, 2015) was an American free climber, alpinist, BASE jumper, and highliner. He was noted for hard first ascents, free solo ascents, speed ascents, and enchainments in Yosemite National Park and Patagonia and his death in a wingsuit flying accident in Yosemite National Park.
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Guram Tikanadze (; (September 12, 1932 – August 27, 1963) was a Georgian alpinist and photographer. He studied at the Tbilisi 1st Public School. Tikanadze was a geologist, he graduated from the Tbilisi State University, the faculty of Geography and Geology. Between 1956 and 1959 he worked at the Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography.
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Other Mujahideen joined the Northern Alliance to oppose the Taliban rule. After the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in New York City and Washington D.C., the American and ISAF campaign against Al Qaeda and their Taliban allies made the Hindu Kush once again a militarised conflict zone.A Short March to the Hindu Kush, Alpinist 18.
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Ian McNaught-Davis (30 August 1929 – 10 February 2014) was a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television series The Computer Programme, Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s. He was also a mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare Inc.
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Vitaly Mikhaylovich Abalakov () ( in Krasnoyarsk - 26 May 1986 in MoscowGreat Russian Encyclopedia (2006), Moscow: Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Enciklopediya Publisher, vol. 1, p. 9) was a Soviet chemical engineer, mountaineer and inventor. Brother of Yevgeniy Abalakov, another famous alpinist, he made the first Soviet ascent of Lenin Peak in 1934 and two more ascents of this mountain.
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He was also an accomplished still photographer and book author, publishing in 1914 How to Become an Alpinist, which is illustrated with his photographs. Burlingham initially produced films while working in London for the British and Colonial Kinematograph Company, but he later developed his films independently and released them under contract with licensed distributors.
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Benoît Chamoux (19 February 1961 - 6 October 1995) was a French Alpinist, who claimed to have summited 13 of the Eight-thousanders in the Himalayas. Three of these climbs are disputed and are not formally recorded (Makalu in 1995, Cho Oyu in 1990 and Shishapangma in 1990). His official recorded number of ascents is 10.
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Leopold Vietoris (; ; 4 June 1891 – 9 April 2002) was an Austrian mathematician and a World War I veteran. He was born in Radkersburg and died in Innsbruck. He was known for his contributions to topology—notably the Mayer–Vietoris sequence—and other fields of mathematics, his interest in mathematical history and for being a keen alpinist.
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Hans Kraus (November 28, 1905 in Austria-Hungary – March 6, 1996, in New York City) was a physician, physical therapist, mountaineer and alpinist. A pioneer of modern rock climbing, he was also one of the fathers of sports medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation and was elected to the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in 1974.
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Rollo Davidson (b. Bristol, 8 October 1944, d. Piz Bernina, 29 July 1970) was a probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis, and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists.
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Simone Moro (born 27 October 1967 in Bergamo) is an Italian alpinist. He made the first winter ascent of four of the eight-thousanders: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011, and Nanga Parbat in 2016., He also ascended Everest four times in 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010. Moro is also an experienced helicopter pilot.
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The hut was named after the Alpinist, Fritz Pflaum, who was born in 1871. He was a keen nature lover and sportsman and loved the Wilder Kaiser. On 25 August 1908 he died during a difficult mountain tour on the Mönch.Stephen, Sir Leslie; Freshfield, Douglas William; Conway, Sir William Martin; Butler, Arthur John and Yeld, George.
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Heinrich Harrer, an expert alpinist, was a member of the SS Alpine unit. The unit practised on Eiger mountain in Switzerland in 1938. When the group returned to Germany, Adolf Hitler met with them.This SS unit also climbed Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus and raised a Swastika flag on the summit in 1942 during the Eastern Front Campaign.
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Janusz Onyszkiewicz was born in Lwów (then Poland, now Lviv, Ukraine).Dziennik Polski, "Ankieta Eurokandyta – Janusz Onyszkiewicz", 20 May 2009, He graduated in mathematics from Warsaw University. He became a famous mathematician and an alpinist in the 1970s along with his wife Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz. In the 1980s, he became the spokesman for the anti-communist Solidarity movement.
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The German-Soviet War postponed awarding him this honorary title until 1949\. :: (See A.D. Aleksandrov in the mountains (an alpinist biography), Savvon S.M., [1], p.182–183) During his rectorship, Aleksandrov also advanced the mountaineering sport activities in the university, actively participating in the climbs. The fiftieth birthday was celebrated by Aleksandrov in the mountains with his friends.
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Josip Klasancije Schlosser pl. Klekovski (1801–1882) was a Croatian physician, alpinist and botanist. Together with Ljudevit Farkaš Vukotinović, he was an author of Flora croatica (1869), the main work for the knowledge of plants in Croatia. He was the most prominent 19th century botanist and explorer of Risnjak mountain, and wrote numerous publications about Risnjak's flora.
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Lunag Ri was first climbed in October 25, 2018 by the Austrian alpinist and climber David Lama. Lama ascended the mountain without any partner. Lama and the US- American climber Conrad Anker had failed to make the summit at two previous attempts in November 2015 and fall 2016. During the second attempt Anker had suffered a heart attack.
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Andrzej Zawada (born Maria Andrzej Zawada; 16 July 1928 – 21 August 2000) was a Polish mountaineer, pioneer of winter Himalayism. Zawada was an organiser and leader in numerous high-mountains expeditions. Author of movies and photographs from expeditions, co-author of Alpinist books. Honorary member of the British Alpine Club, French Groupe de Haute Montagne and American The Explorers Club.
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During his artistic and professional career, Poliński has also taken part in numerous charity events, such as the Grand Finale fundraiser of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. In January 2009, Poliński also co initiated and participated in a charity concert for a Polish alpinist Paweł Kulinicz. The event was held in an art center Fabryka Trzciny in Warsaw, Poland.
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Kennedy was a regular contributor for Alpinist and Rock and Ice magazines. On October 7, 2017, while skiing on Imp Peak in Montana's Southern Madison Range, Kennedy and his partner Inge Perkins were caught in an avalanche. Surviving the avalanche, Kennedy attempted to rescue the buried Perkins but failed to locate her avalanche beacon. Later the following day, Kennedy committed suicide.
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It is a favourite viewpoint, due to its position and accessibility. Its first documented ascent was by the German alpinist Theodor Petersen, accompanied by two locals, on 14 July 1870, although it appeared to have been previously climbed by surveyors in the 1850s. The nearest settlements are Galtür, 14 km to the north, and Guarda, 9 km to the south.
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In the '70s, in Poland, the UIAA scale was in use, when climbing limestone rocks near Cracow, where Polish sport climbing was developed. Grade-I route was considered a walk, while Grade-VI was described as "hardest". As climbing level was growing, the scale seemed more and more inadequate. Famous climber and alpinist Wojciech Kurtyka proposed an extension to the scale.
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Brette Harrington (born 1992) is an American professional rock climber and alpinist based in Lake Tahoe, California and British Columbia, Canada. She is best known for the first free solo of 2,500-foot Chiaro di Luna (5.11a) in Patagonia, for her development of new alpine climbing routes and as the star of Brette, a Reel Rock Film Tour short film.
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Its temperature ranges between 18 and 19 °C. Flammarion is free of vegetation, but rather rare species that prefer the acidic conditions grow on its shores, such as ', ' and ', an endemic species of rush.Philippe Joseph, Écosystèmes forestiers des Caraïbes, Karthala, 2009, The crater was named by the famous alpinist Mr. Camille Thionville, chef du service de l'Enregistrement et des Domaines.
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Ernst Cassirer: The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, tr. Hans Nachod, p.28:"The colorful description of this enterprise has startled many readers who have been amazed to see a man of his epoch venturing to climb a mountain for a view like a modern alpinist" although Mont Ventoux is not a hard climb, and is not usually considered part of the Alps.Bishop, p.
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Plett - Schmidseder edited by Walther Killy In August 1871, with Alpinist Johann Stüdl, he was the first to ascend to the summit of the Schlieferspitze (3289 m).Venedigergruppe: e. Führer für Täler, Hütten u. Berge by Willi End, Hubert Peterka Monument of Richter on Richterhöhe in Salzburg He is best remembered for his glaciological and limnological research of the eastern Alpine region.
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However, the film differs in many key ways from the original incident.Eesti Päevaleht "Must alpinist" näitab, et ka Eesti põnevusfilm võib olla põnev 25 November 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2018.kultuur.err.ee Eesti kino top 7: Läänerindel muutusteta 12 December 2015. In 2017, he appeared in two films; the Priit Pääsuke-directed drama Keti lõpp and the Andres Puustusmaa-directed comedy Rohelised kassid.
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Dafydd Caradog Davis MBE is a Welsh mountain bike trail builder, known for the creation of several major UK mountain biking resorts such as Coed-y-Brenin. Davis received an MBE in the 2004 Queen's Birthday Honours list for 'services to forestry'. Davis is an all-round mountain athlete. He has represented his country as a fell runner and is an accomplished rock climber and alpinist.
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The caldera is about 40 km long and 25 km at its widest point. The range was named Cordillera de Potosí by the German alpinist Henry Hoek in 1903. He collected information about the range like the local names and published several papers about it. The inhabitants of the area, however, use the names Khari Khari for the northern part and Anta Q'awa for the southern one.
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King Albert climbing in the Dolomites in 1932. Albert I commemorative coin Bust of Albert I in Ottignies. A passionate alpinist, King Albert I died in a mountaineering accident while climbing alone on the Roche du Vieux Bon Dieu at Marche-les-Dames, in the Ardennes region of Belgium near Namur. His death shocked the world and he was deeply mourned, both in Belgium and abroad.
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René Desmaison in 2005 René Desmaison (April 14, 1930, Bourdeilles, Dordogne - September 28, 2007) was a veteran French mountaineer, climber and alpinist. Desmaison had climbed more than 1,000 mountains since the 1950s. He made the first ascent of 114 previously unclimbed mountains throughout the Andes, Alps and Himalayas in his 40-year climbing career. He is also credited with creating several new winter routes in the Alps.
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Josef Schintlmeister Josef Schintlmeister (16 June 1908, Radstadt – 14 August 1971, Hinterglemm) was an Austrian-German nuclear physicist and alpinist from Radstadt. During World War II, he worked on the German nuclear energy project, also known as the Uranium Club. After World War II, he was sent Russia to work on the Soviet atomic bomb project. After he returned to Vienna, he took positions in East Germany.
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The Bachmann hitch (sometimes misspelled 'Bachman') is a friction hitch, named after the austrian alpinist Franz Bachmann. It is useful when the friction hitch needs to be reset quickly/often or made to be self-tending as in crevasse and self-rescue. (See Prusik knot) The Bachmann hitch requires the use of a carabiner. It does not matter if the carabiner is locking or not.
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Mountain of Destiny () is a 1924 German silent drama film written and directed by Arnold Fanck and starring Hannes Schneider, Frida Richard, Erna Morena, and Luis Trenker. The film is about an alpinist who falls to his death while climbing a dangerous peak. His son later succeeds where his father had failed. The film was released in the United Kingdom with the title The Mountaineers.
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Thomas Pauly writes in his short biography of Workman that "early on Fanny chafed at the constraints of her privilege". A small number of her stories from this time survive, describing her interest in adventure. In one, "A Vacation Episode", she describes a beautiful and aristocratic English girl who is contemptuous of society. She runs away to Grindelwald, becoming an excellent alpinist and marrying an American.
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Over 7 days in August 2005, two Slovak climbers, Gabo Cmarik and Jozef Kopold, climbed a new route, which they termed Assalam Alaikum, to the right of the Wharton/Cordes line on the south face of Great Trango. The climb comprised around 90 pitches, up to 5.11d A2. They used a lightweight style similar to that of Wharton and Cordes.Cmarik/Kopold route on alpinist.
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Tom Ballard (born 16 October 1988; died 24 February 9 March 2019) was a British rock climber and alpinist, who was the first mountaineer to climb the six major alpine north faces solo in a single winter season. In February 2019, Ballard disappeared during bad weather on an expedition to Nanga Parbat, Pakistan. His body was discovered on the mountain's Mummery Spur on 9 March 2019.
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And a great gentleman. French alpinist Pierre Mazeaud declared: Il y a de la spiritualité chez cet être-là. Pour moi, Walter est sans doute un héros de légende mais c’est avant tout un homme de vérité qui a tout simplement du cœur (There is spirituality in that person. For me, Walter is undoubtedly a legendary hero but it is above all a man of truth who has a big heart).
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Ochoa de Olza died in 2008 while attempting to climb the Nepalese mountain, Annapurna. Ochoa was trying to climb to the peak of Annapurna with his climbing partner, Romanian alpinist Horia Colibășanu. They were forced to halt their climb near the summit of the mountain because of dangerous weather conditions at the peak. Ochoa had also suffered severe frostbite to his hands, which also forced the duo to halt the climb.
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The summit of Mount Everest is in the death zone. The death zone in mountaineering, (originally the lethal zone) was first conceived in 1953 by Edouard Wyss-Dunant, a Swiss physician and alpinist. It refers to altitudes above a certain point where the amount of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span. This point is generally tagged as , less than 356 millibars of atmospheric pressure).
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Zsigmondy's parents were Hungarians: Adolf Zsigmondy, born in Pozsony, and Irma von Szakmáry, born in Martonvásár. Zsigmondy was an excellent alpinist, known for the risky nature of many of his climbs. He began mountaineering as a teenager, climbing the Reisseck in Austria in a round trip of 26 hours with his brother, Otto Zsigmondy. By the late 1870s the two brothers were climbing without guides in the Zillertal Alps.
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Since 2001, from his numerous expeditions, he brought a large number of publications in the French press (including Paris-Match, Sport, Vertical, Montagnes Magazine and Climbing) and International (including Aktuell, View, Pareti, Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Escalar, Muntana, Alp and Klatring). His photos have also regularly fuelled means of communication (catalogues, posters, press advertising and websites) of various companies (including Petzl, Beal, Expé, Vertical, Lafuma and Migoo) and institutions (City Grenoble).
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In 1963 she married a fellow botanist and alpinist , 11 years her older. She graduated the following year with masters of Biology. After gaining her degree Komarkova and her three friends made a female group called Šlápoty ("The Footmarks") to walk from Czechoslovakia to Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics. Their feat was followed by the Czech media, and they averaged 25 miles a day for almost a year.
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The glacier is named after Jim Dennistoun, a New Zealand alpinist who was in charge of the mules on board the Terra Nova on her way to Antarctica. The entire extent of the glacier was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1960–63. The name Fowlie Glacier, which in fact refers to a tributary glacier, has sometimes been inadvertently misapplied to this feature.
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Doychin Vasilev Doychin Vasilev (, born 12 June 1944 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian alpinist and cinematographer who has climbed five Himalayan 8,000 m peaks: Dhaulagiri (in 1995), Mount Everest (1997), Makalu (1998), and Shishapangma and Cho Oyu (1999). President of Alpine Club Vihren, Sofia. Participant in the Bulgarian Antarctic expedition Tangra 2004/05, noted by Discovery Channel as a timeline event in Antarctic exploration.14 November 2004: Tangra.
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In his free time, he also composed music, sang in concerts, and was an active mountaineer. In 1894 he founded the Kiel section of the Association of German and Austrian Alpinists, which he personally supported with gifts. In his Munich period, he became a close friend of the alpinist guide Christian Klucker, with whom he made mountaineering hikes for many years thereafter. Theodor Curtius died in Heidelberg on 8 February 1928.
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Ludwig Gramminger, also known as "Wiggerl" Gramminger (June 11, 1906 – August 28, 1997) was a German Alpinist and one of the pioneers of modern mountain rescue techniques. He was born in Munich. In 1925 he joined the Alpine mountain rescue service. A skilled climber, he pioneered the use of stretch rail and the use of steel rope to lower one of the rescuers to the base of the wall.
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In 1904 he became an assistant at the observatory in Uccle. In 1909 he was promoted to astronomer adjoint. From 1912 he was a lecturer on astronomy and geodesy at the University of Ghent and in 1919 he became a full professor and director of the geographical station of the University of Ghent. He was an alpinist and died in a mountain accident in the French Alps in Le Bourg d'Oisans.
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British climber Doug Scott wrote in his 1974 book Big Walls that Bonatti was perhaps the finest alpinist there has ever been, while in 2010 Reinhold Messner described him as one of the greatest climbers of all time and a marvellous person. The legendary Chris Bonington said about Bonatti: He was a complex person and a sensitive one too. K2 always preyed on his mind. But he was also a man of great integrity.
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MEC is Canada's largest supplier of outdoor equipment. Following its founding in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1971, MEC expanded across Canada and grew to operate stores in 20 cities. Once catering to mountaineers and climbers, MEC now targets a broader, more urban clientele and is largely focused on clothing, cycling and yoga supplies. This is evidenced by changes in its marketing imagery, which historically focused on high level climbing and alpinist imagery.
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She is not a member of any mountain organization and she does not perceive herself as an alpinist. She started her mountaineering adventure in 2000 by climbing Rysy from the Slovak side. The next climbings were as follows: Gerlach 2650 m – June 2000; Triglav 2864 m – September 2001; Mont Blanc 4810 m – August 2002 ; Elbrus 5642 m – unsuccessful summit trial in August 2003; Lenin's Peak 7210 m by the normal route – June 2004.
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The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970. The film was produced by Canadian film maker F. R. "Budge" Crawley. Miura skied 2,000 m (6,600 ft) in two minutes and 20 seconds and fell 400 m (1,320 ft) down the steep Lhotse face from the Yellow Band just below the South Col. He used a large parachute to slow his descent.
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Alberto Zerain Berasategi (20 August 1961 – 24 June 2017) was a Spanish mountaineer. He is best known as a solo alpinist and the first person to summit K2 during the 2008 K2 Disaster on 1 August. Zerain summited the mountain solo from Camp III and successfully descended before the series of events that led to the deaths of 11 climbers on 2 August 2008. In his lifetime, he climbed at least 7 eight-thousanders.
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He is surprisingly a strong drinker. Later, he adds an immortality trait to the main character of the manga he drew, but the editor-in-chief points out that there is too much crammed into the manga. ; :A 42 year old mountaineer who entered the conversation when Obara wondered if Ōtsuki enjoyed his current job. He has been an aspiring alpinist since he was 30 years old and is trying to climb Mt. Everest.
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Alain Le Ray (3 October 1910 – 4 June 2007) was a French general and Resistance leader. Le Ray, a keen alpinist, was a lieutenant in the French mountain infantry when wounded and captured by the Germans in June 1940. After a first escape attempt from a prison camp in occupied Poland, he was transferred to Oflag IV-C. In April 1941, he became the first prisoner ever to escape from the Colditz Castle.
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Cesare Maestri Cesare Maestri (born 2 October 1929) is an Italian mountaineer and writer. He was born in Trento in the Italian province of Trentino. He began climbing in the Dolomites, where he repeated many famous routes, often climbing them solo and free,Alpinist Magazine on Cesare Maestri and put up many new routes of the hardest difficulty, for which he was nicknamed the "Spider of the Dolomites". He became an alpine guide in 1952.
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Later, he also completed the Challenge for the Seven Third Summits.British Mountaineering Council: Christian Stangl completes the Triple Seven Summits (english)skyrunning.at: Three records for Austrian Alpinist Christian Stangl (english)climbing.com: Stangl Completes Triple Seven Summits by Dougald MacDonald, Climbing (USA) 8/28/13 In 2012 the Italian mountaineer Hans Kammerlander claimed to be the first person to complete the Seven Second Summits, but doubts were raised about his ascent of Mount Logan.
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Gota Miura, freestyle skier and alpinist, is one of his sons. Yuichiro was exposed to snow sports from the time he was a child, and placed in his first skiing competition during his 2nd grade year in elementary school. He moved south with his family but found that he missed the snow and winter sports, prompting him to enroll in Hokkaido University. There, he continued to pursue skiing as a professional sport.
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For instance "cat" in mainstream Ossolano is "gat", but in Mozziese is "sciandrun" (the "cinder-one", due to domesticated mountain cats' habit to roll up in front of the fire in mountain huts). Ossolano belongs to the larger family of Insubric languages to which Milanese belongs. Perhaps the most famous poet in the Ossolan language is Giovanni Leoni (affectionately known as "Ul Torototela", the bard), merchant, sea farer and alpinist who still inspires the locals.
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Mt. Whymper seen from Highway 93 Mount Whymper, 2,844 m, is a mountain located in the Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, Canada, in the Vermilion Pass area in Kootenay National Park. The mountain is named for its first conqueror, the English alpinist, explorer, writer and engraver Edward Whymper. In 1901, Whymper and his four guides (Joseph Bossoney, Christian Kaufmann, Christian Klucker, and Joseph Pollinger) first climbed Mount Whymper. It was renamed to honour him.
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Charles Hedrich is a French sportsman, alpinist, rower and skipper; born 3 March 1958 in Lyon.Charles Hedrich to Skipper Le Cigare Rouge August 2010, charterworld.com. Retrieved March 2011 He is known for his achievements on all terrains of the world: Ocean (Vendée Globe, ...), climbing (Everest, ...), pole (North pole, ...), desert (Dakar moto, ...), and forest (Amazon, ...). He also participates in international competitions : Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, Pierre Menta, Enduro du Touquet, 100 km de Millau, IronMan, etc.
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Patrick Vallençant (June 9, 1946 in Lyon – March 28, 1989) was a French alpinist/skier and pioneer in ski mountaineering. He was a pioneer in ski mountaineering and leader of the French school of ski mountaineers. His motto was: "si tu tombes, tu meurs", translated as "you fall, you die". In addition to numerous first descents, he was responsible for the creation of the "Pedal- Jump Turn" and co-founded the Degré 7 ski apparel company.
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Mount Everest guides assist climbers on what are called "guided" climbs, and guided ascent can cost double an unguided one.The Cost$ of Climbing Everest, 2010 Many climbers in more recent times are unguided but can get some support from a Sherpa, which, though more similar to an Alpinist porter, is much cheaper and also called a guide. The term guide can mean something along the lines of an assistant all the way to a World-famous mountaineer.
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Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (16 February 1854 – 19 August 1926) was a Scottish historian who specialised in the history of Venice and Italy. Born in Nice, he grew up in Midlothian, Scotland, was educated in England at Clifton College and Oxford, and spent most of his life in Venice, publishing several books about the city. He also wrote for the Cambridge Modern History, was the biographer of John Addington Symonds, and was a poet and alpinist.
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In the autumn of 1982, at the age of 28, MacIntyre was killed by a single stone while setting up a new route on Annapurna's South Face with French alpinist René Ghilini. In light of his contribution to British climbing, particularly advances in the 'light and fast' style of alpinism, the 'Alex MacIntyre Memorial Hut' was set up in the West Highlands where it is managed by the British Mountaineering Council and the Mountaineering Council of Scotland.
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For this purpose large ringed pitons are put in place with minimal intervals of 25 meters. In 1936 a via ferrata, the so-called Via delle BocchetteVia ferrata (section Via delle Bochette: the Classic Via Ferrata) was traced along he foot of the mountain passing over the Bocchetta del Campanile BassoThis part of the itinerary was dedicated in 1936 to the Jewish Italian financier and alpinist Otto Gottstein. see Castiglioni, page 177. and the Bocchetta del Campanile Alto.
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The Selvaggio Blu (Wild Blue) is a trekking route in the territory of the district of Baunei (Sardinia). It was conceived in 1987 by Mario Verin, (photographer and alpinist) and Peppino Cicalò (architect), President of the Nuoro section of the Italian Alpine Club. The itinerary extends for over 40 kilometers (approximately 25 miles) from the touristic port of Santa Maria Navarrese (Baunei) to the beach of Cala Sisine (Baunei). It takes on average 4 days to complete.
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Although Whymper was an accomplished alpinist, artist, lecturer, and writer, his social snobbery, belittling attitude, and excessive consumption of alcohol continued to spark clashes with the guides as well as the outfitters, Wild Bill Peyto and Jack Sinclair. During his excursions, Whymper so frequently ordered cases of whiskey and beer that his drinking became legendary; in stark contrast to the abstinence that the Swiss guides had agreed to in their CPR contracts, Whymper excesses became the object of criticism.
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Edouard Wyss-Dunant (17 April 1897 – 30 April 1983) was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad.K2: the 1939 tragedy Andrew J. Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam - 1992 "Edward Wyss-Dunant (1897-1983), a radiologist and physiologist, was a resident of Geneva who climbed mostly in the Oberland." He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity and was the author of several mountaineering books.
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Flutura Ibrahimi better known as Uta Ibrahimi (born November 27, 1983, Gjilan) is an Albanian alpinist from Kosovo. She is the first Albanian woman to climb Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. After Mount Everest (May 22, 2017), she has climbed Manasulu (8,163m), Cho-Oyu (8201m), Lhotse (8516m) and Gasherburum (8080m), thus making her officially the first woman from the Balkans to summit 5X8000 meters peaks. Following her success, Uta Ibrahimi has been featured by many local and international media.
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Hearfield Glacier () is a tributary glacier which flows east-southeast along the south side of the Cartographers Range and enters Trafalgar Glacier just east of Aldridge Peak, in the Victory Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the northern party of the New Zealand Federated Mountain Clubs Antarctic Expedition, 1962–63, for B. Hearfield, a leading New Zealand alpinist and a member of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1957–58, which also worked in the Tucker Glacier area.
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The summit was first reached by the pioneering German alpinist Joseph Anton Specht in 1862. Specht was a founder member of the German Alpine Club. It is now a very popular destination due to it being the highest mountain of the Stubai Alps and because of the view from the summit, which takes in all the major peaks of the Stubai Alps, the Ötztal Alps, the Zillertal Alps and the Ortler Alps. The normal route is along the east ridge.
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Klemens von Klemperer had a privileged childhood. He was born in Berlin, one of four children of Herbert and Frieda (née Kuffner) von Klemperer. His father was the president of Berliner Maschinenbau-AG (BMAG), a company that supplied locomotives as well as submarines and torpedoes to the military establishment. He was a grandson of Gustav Klemperer von Klemenau, a prominent banker who rose to become the chairman of the Dresdner Bank, and great nephew of Moriz von Kuffner, Viennese brewer and pioneering alpinist.
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Karl Arnold variously Carl Johann Moritz Arnold or Johann Karl Moritz Arnold (March 12, 1853, Uffenheim - June 24, 1929, Hanover) was a German chemist and mountaineer. He served as Director and briefly as Vice-Chancellor of the Institute of Chemistry at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover. His published works on organic chemistry were of importance to veterinarians, medical students and pharmacists. He was also an accomplished alpinist and chairman of the Hanover section of the German-Austrian Alpine Association.
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From La Bérarde, another alpinist centre in the Écrins Massif, the Col de la Temple offers a high, but comparatively easy crossing into the Vallouise for experienced glacier walkers. The climbing path runs over the southern branch of the Glacier Noir and then makes for the junction of both glacial arms before crossing the northern branch to the lateral moraine on the opposite side. The Refuge Temple-Écrins in the Haut Vénéon may be used as a base.Via Glacier Noir at www.summitpost.org.
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Borgne Valley in Ferpècle Ferpècle is a dispersed settlement in the upper Val d'Hérens in Valais, Switzerland, upstream of Les Haudères, at between about 1,700 m and 1,800 m elevation, spanning a distance of about 5 km along the Borgne de Ferpècle stream. Like Les Haudères, it is part of Evolène municipality. Individual settlements of Ferpécle are Seppec, Pra Floric, Renoillin and Salay. Ferpècle serves as starting-point for a number of alpinist excursions, including Ferpècle Glacier and Mont Miné Glacier.
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Cerro Torre in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, South America In 2009 David Lama announced his intention to free climb Cerro Torre via the Compressor Route, which means only natural rock and ice formations are used for the ascent of the mountain. Bolts and rope only serve as protection in case of a fall. Nobody had done this before, all previous ascents had used climbing aids of one kind or another. Alpinist legend Reinhold Messner even called the undertaking “crazy and impossible”.
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Captain Richard Vahsel The expedition attracted a large number of applications. Among the scientists selected were a young geographer, Heinrich Seelheim, as Filchner's deputy; Carl Wilhelm Brennecke, one of Germany's leading oceanographers; the astronomer Erich Przybyllok; and an Austrian biologist and experienced alpinist, Felix König. Filchner wanted Jorgensen, Deutschlands former commander, as captain, but was pressurised by the German naval authorities to appoint a German to the post. Their choice was Richard Vahsel, who had served as second officer on the Gauss expedition.
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Mount Paatusoq, also known as 'Mount Patuersoq', Alun Richardson, Rucksack Guide - Mountaineering in Remote Areas of the World, p. 125 is the highest mountain in the Kujalleq municipality, SE Greenland. It is the highest peak in the King Frederick VI Coast area of far southeastern Greenland. Long considered the highest unclimbed peak in remote southern Greenland, it was climbed by the 1962 Austro-German Greenland Expedition (Österreichische Deutsche Grönland Expedition 1962) led by Austrian alpinist Toni Dürnberger from April to July 1962.
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Cassin's 100th birthday fell on 2 January 2009. A retrospective book, entitled Riccardo Cassin: Cento volti di un grande alpinista ("Riccardo Cassin: One Hundred Faces of a Great Alpinist"), was produced to mark the occasion, containing one hundred testimonials from people associated with Cassin, including Edouard Frendo, Georges Livanos, John F. Kennedy, Reinhold Messner, Carlo Mauri, Walter Bonatti, Gianni Brera and Candido Cannavò. Cassin died in Piano dei Resinelli, Lecco, on 6 August 2009, aged 100.Death of Riccardo Cassin kairn.
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Born in 1857, George Morse was the son of Charles Morse of Aylsham, Norfolk, a partner in the brewery of Steward, Patteson Fitch & Co., and a great grandson of John Morse, who had been Mayor of Norwich for 1781.Patrick T. R. Palgrave-Moore, The Mayors and Lord Mayors of Norwich, 1936–1974 (1978), p. 35 Charles Morse was also an alpinist and had joined the Alpine Club in 1863.T. L. Kesteven, 'George Henry Morse' (obituary) in the Alpine Journal, vol.
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Both Jones and his wife were killed in an accident on their honeymoon in Switzerland, while climbing the Aiguille Rouge de Peuterey 2941m a subpeak of Aiguille Noire de Peuterey on 15 August 1912; their guide, Julius Truffer, slipped and fell on Jones, and all three dropped nearly 1,000 feet to the Fresnay Glacier. Alpinist Paul Preuss witnessed the accident. They were buried at Courmayeur. The north summit of the Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey was named La Pointe Jones in his honour.
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Karl Unterkircher (27 August 1970 – 15 July 2008) was an Italian mountaineer. He is mostly known for opening new mountain routes. Unterkircher was born in Sëlva. In 2004, he was the first alpinist to climb the two highest peaks on Earth (Mount Everest and K2) without oxygen in the same year (within 63 days) he made the second ascent of Mount Genyen, China, (first ascent by Japanese in 1987) and the first ascent of the North face of Gasherbrum II (together with Daniele Bernasconi and Michele Compagnoni).
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Pierre Allain (7 January 1904 – 19 December 2000) was a French alpinist who began climbing in the 1920s. In the 1930s he was joined by several others at Fontainebleau, where his group of "'Bleausards" developed a love of bouldering that went beyond simple training for the Alps. The famous Allain Angle (V2 - V3), done in 1934, is a testament to their dedication and to the resulting elevation of standards. In Allain's 1949 book, Alpinisme et Competition, he expresses his appreciation of this simple and understated climbing specialty.
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The receptions he gave at home on Mondays were described by Frederick Rolfe, known as Baron Corvo. An alpinist, Brown climbed peaks in Switzerland, the Carnic Alps and the Tyrol, and was a member of the Alpine Club of Venice. He published Venetian Studies (1887), a historical miscellany, followed by a more comprehensive history, Venice, an Historical Sketch (1893), later abbreviated as The Venetian Republic (1902), and his The Venetian Printing Press (1891) came out of unpublished material he found in his researches at the Frari.
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Miye Matsukata was born in Tokyo; her parents had both lived in the United States before her birth. Her paternal grandfather was Matsukata Masayoshi, Prime Minister of Japan from 1891 to 1892 and from 1896 to 1898; her sisters were Haru M. Reischauer, a writer and wife of the diplomat and scholar Edwin O. Reischauer, and Tané Matsukata, founder of the Nishimachi International School. An uncle, Kōjirō Matsukata, was a major collector of Western art in Tokyo. Another uncle, Saburō Matsukata, was a Japanese alpinist.
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In 1895, shortly after returning to London following a tour in South Africa with Lady Hallé, Charles Hallé died suddenly. He was internationally acclaimed, and his death was considered a great loss, especially to the British public. The British government gifted Lady Hallé a Palazzo in Asolo, Italy, where she moved to live with her son, Ludvig, who was an alpinist. Yet again, a sudden and tragic death would affect Neruda: Ludvig died in a tragic accident in 1898 while climbing in the Dolomites.
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Dr. Lyubomir Ivanov (team leader), senior research associate, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; chairman, Antarctic Place-names Commission; author of the 1995 Bulgarian Antarctic Toponymic Guidelines introducing in particular the present official system for the Romanization of Bulgarian; participant in four Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns, and author of the first Bulgarian Antarctic topographic maps. Doychin Vasilev, Bulgarian alpinist who has climbed five Himalayan 8,000 m peaks: Dhaulagiri (in 1995), Mount Everest (1997), Makalu (1998), and Shishapangma and Cho Oyu (1999).
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Miura went to Tasman Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook (August 1966) with Yōichi Masuzoe (at the Central Government Building No.5 on November, 2007) Miura is a Japanese alpinist who in 2003, at age 70, became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. This record was later broken by himself. Miura had two heart surgeries for cardiac arrhythmia, in 2006 and 2007. On May 23, 2013 Miura again became the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 80.
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Preuss was a well-rounded alpinist, not only mastering rock but making first ascents on snow and ice as well. He also pursued ski mountaineering, ski traverses (accomplishing firsts in both these areas) and snowshoeing. When stuck studying in Munich, he would often go “buildering” on the Propylaea, with his companion on the lookout for such objective hazards as the local constabulary. Though he would often solo and would usually avoid climbing or skiing in overly-trafficked areas, he was not anti-social by any means.
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In 1857, a first attempt was made by Christian Almer, Christian Kaufmann, Ulrich Kaufmann guiding the Austrian alpinist Sigismund Porges. They did manage the first ascent of neighboring Mönch instead. Porges, however, successfully made the second ascend of the Eiger in July 1861 with the guides Christian Michel, Hans and Peter Baumann.Daniel Anker and Rainer Rettner, Chronology of the Eiger from 1252 to 2013 The first ascent was made by the western flank on August 11, 1858 by Charles Barrington with guides Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
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The Marco e Rosa Hut was constructed in 1913 on the instigation of alpinist Alfredo Corti. The costs were met by Italian philanthropist and naturalist, and because of this gesture, the hut was named after him and his wife, Rosa De Marchi. De Marchi had climbed the Bernina along with a guide, but had been caught in a heavy storm. The hut was a built on a 300m rock promontory, and was a simple structure, capable of sheltering 32 people, but lacked cooking facilities.
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Memorial of Dimitar Ilievski - Murato on Pelister near the dormitory "Kopanki". Dimitar Ilievski - Murato () (1953 in Bitola - May 10, 1989 in Mount Everest) was an alpinist from SR Macedonia representing SFR Yugoslavia, the first Macedonian ever to climb the highest peak of the world, Mount Everest. He died on the descent of Mt. Everest. Murato, as he was known in his native town Bitola, reached the top of Mount Everest on May 10, 1989 as part of a larger Yugoslavian expedition, of which only few alpinists succeeded to reach the peak.
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The Simonyspitzen are two mountain summits in the Venediger Group of the Austrian Central Alps. They lie within the High Tauern National Park on the border between the Austrian states of East Tyrol and Salzburg. They were given their name at a meeting of the Austrian Alpine Club on 15 March 1865 at the request of cartographer, Franz Keil who wanted to honour the geographer and Alpine researcher, Friedrich Simony. The peaks were first climbed on 28 July 1871 by Stuttgarter alpinist, Theodor Harpprecht and mountain guide, Josef Schnell.
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Up to today, there is no internationally accepted classification of the Alps. Beside the common AVE arrangement, the Swiss Alpine Club subdivides the Swiss Alps (including the East Alpine parts) along cantonal boundaries, while Austrian hydrography uses a slightly different orographic system. In Italy and France the segmentation is usually based on the 1926 Partizione delle Alpi. In 2005, a new proposal was made by the Italian Alpinist, Sergio Marazzi, to merge the competing systems of the Alpine states into the Suddivisione Orografica Internazionale Unificata del Sistema Alpino (SOIUSA), but this has not gained acceptance.
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Don Bowie (December 9, 1969) is a professional high altitude climber from Alberta, Canada. Bowie’s climbing endeavors have taken him to the remotest regions of Nepal, Pakistan, Tibet, Africa, South America, Mexico, USA, and the high-arctic of Canada. In addition to being a world class alpinist, he is an expert ski-mountaineer, avid mountain biker, long distance trail-runner, and develops various projects portraying his climbing exploits as writer, filmmaker, and photographer. Bowie now lives in Bishop, California, where he serves as an active member of the Inyo County Sheriff Search and Rescue Team.
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His father, John Creagh Ryle, a doctor and alpinist, was a general practitioner in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, where Ryle was born. His mother, Melody Ryle, née Jackson, was a stalwart of the local Family Planning Association and a noted amateur botanist and gardener. Ryle is a grandson of the pioneer of social medicine John Alfred Ryle, a nephew of the astronomer Sir Martin Ryle, a great-nephew of the philosopher Gilbert Ryle, and a great-great grandson of John Charles Ryle, evangelical Bishop of Liverpool in the last decades of the nineteenth century.
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Darack has written articles for a number of different magazines, including Air & Space / Smithsonian, Weatherwise Magazine (for which he is a contributing editor), Alpinist Magazine, Leatherneck Magazine, The Marine Corps Gazette, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, Climbing Magazine, Rock & Ice Magazine, Nature Photographer Magazine, Alaska Geographic, Sea Kayaker Magazine, and others. Topics about which he writes include military, science, weather, travel, geography, mountaineering, adventure, and aviation, among others. Darack's articles have been referenced and discussed by a range of media throughout the world, including Stern, The Daily Telegraph, Yahoo News, and others.
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Grove became an experienced alpinist in the late 1850s and joined the Alpine Club of London soon after it was formed in 1857, later serving as its President from 1884 to 1886.A. L. Mumm, The Alpine Club Register (London, 3 vols, 1923–28) He was one of the best British climbers of his day and is remembered for opposing guideless climbing during the 1870s. An article on the founders of the Alpine Club in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him a "gentleman traveller of independent means".Founders of the Alpine Club (act.
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Charles Henri Durier Charles Henri Durier (15 December 1830 in Paris - 6 May 1899) was a French geographer and alpinist. During his career, he worked as an administrator in the Ministry of Justice, having the title of divisional chief at the time of his retirement. He was instrumental in the creation of the French Alpine Club (1874), serving as its president from 1895 to 1898. He was the author of a well-received book on Mont Blanc ("Le Mont Blanc", 1877), and of various short stories, novels and travelogues.
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Professor Pilar was the first rector of the University of Zagreb with background in natural science, and also the first Croat to be the professor at the Department for Mathematics. He served as a dean in two mandates, as a rector of the university in the academic year 1884/1885, and as a prorector the following year. In 1874 he founded with his associates Croatian Alpinist Association, and in 1885 Croatian Association for Natural Science. As a versatile geologist, Pilar studied waters and set the foundations of karst hydrology.
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The Alpine Botanical Garden “Saussurea” (, ) (7000 m²) is an alpine botanical garden located at Pavillon du Mont Fréty, first station for the Skyway Monte Bianco cable car, in Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy. It describes itself as Europe's highest botanical garden, at 2173 metres above sea level, and is open daily in the warmer months. The garden opened in 1987, and named after the flower Saussurea alpina which honours pioneering alpinist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799). It is managed by the State Forestry Corps and the Autonomous Region Aosta Valley.
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He trained as a shoe and boot maker at his father's firm which he later ran. By the late 1920s he had become an accomplished climber and alpinist, and he started to design, manufacture and supply mountaineering boots to his own design. His boots proved popular and he was commissioned to supply boots for the 1933 Everest expedition led by Hugh Ruttledge.Unsworth, Walt, Everest: The Mountaineering History, The Mountaineers, 2000 In 1935 he moved the business, now known as Robert Lawrie Ltd, to London, eventually working out of premises in his home in Seymour Street.
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A stained glass window at Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire Whymper was the eldest son of Elizabeth Whitworth Claridge and Josiah Wood Whymper, a celebrated wood-engraver and artist. His younger brother Edward Whymper was a renowned alpinist who made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. In his youth, Whymper was a talented artist working to produce engravings for publication and having his landscapes on exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 1859 to 1861. He travelled to Victoria, British Columbia in 1862 and to the Cariboo in the following year.
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High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7000 Metre Peaks by Jill Neate, After unsuccessful attempts to climb the mountain in 1934, 1937, and 1946 the first ascent of Nun was in 1953 by a French-Swiss- Indian-Sherpa team led by Bernard Pierre and Pierre Vittoz, via the west ridge. The summit pair comprised Vittoz, a Moravian missionary to the Tibetans and an experienced alpinist, and Claude Kogan, a pioneering female mountaineer.Pierre Vittoz, Ascent of the Nun, in The Mountain World: 1954 (Marcel Kurz, ed.), George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., London, 1954.
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Viesturs was a cinematographer for the film Trio for One (2003), which told the story of French alpinist Jean-Christophe Lafaille's mission to climb Dhaulagiri, Nanga Parbat, and Broad Peak in a period of two months. He acts as a design consultant for manufacturers of outdoor equipment, and is a representative of his adopted hometown's football team, the Seattle Seahawks. He is a member of the board of directors for Big City Mountaineers, an urban youth organization that offers wilderness experiences. Viesturs has also found a niche as a corporate motivational speaker.
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Dry tooling without crampons The evolution of modern dry tooling started in the 1990s with British alpinist Stevie Haston in Italy establishing routes such as Welcome to the Machine, 009, and Empire Strikes Back (Grotta Haston, Cogne). In the United States and Canada, Jeff Lowe was influential in raising the standards, climbing routes such as Octopussy M8. A common theme of these early routes was that rock was climbed to reach free hanging ice falls—ice falls that do not touch the ground. Protection was also mostly traditional hand placed pegs, nuts and ice screws.
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In 2004, together with , Andrzej W. Pawluczuk and Piotr Rachtan, he established a fortnightly internet magazine "Kantrateksty" which he subsequently ran as chief editor until 2014. Łoziński is also an alpinist, with approximately 300 solo mountaineer over 60 new climbs in Tatry. He took part, on some occasions, as a member and was also the head of few expeditions to Hindu Kush and the Himalaya Mountains where they either ascended for the first time or established new routes. He led a martial arts school teaching Hung Ga Kung Fu style for 20 years.
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Gordon was born and raised in the Soviet Union in North Ossetia, in a family of engineers. Her father, Vladimir Pavlenko, was an avid alpinist. Masha moved to Moscow to study journalism at the Moscow State University in August 1991. She started her career as a reporter for The Washington Post in its Moscow bureau in 1992, and later studied in the United States; gaining a BA in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
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No.5, Dianthus silvestris, and Gnaphalium leontopodium, (Edelweiss), chromolithograph by Helga von Cramm, with hymn by F. R. Havergal, 1877. In the 19th century, the edelweiss became a symbol of the rugged purity of the Alpine region and of its native inhabitants. In Berthold Auerbach's novel Edelweiss (1861), the difficulty for an alpinist to acquire an edelweiss flower was exaggerated to the point of claiming: "the possession of one is a proof of unusual daring." This idea at the time was becoming part of the popular mythology of early alpinism.
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Kumbhakarna Jannu was first reconnoitered in 1957 by Guido Magnone, and first attempted in 1959 by a French team led by Jean Franco. It was first climbed in 1962 by a team led by the French alpinist Lionel Terray. Those reaching the summit were René Desmaison, Paul Keller, Robert Paragot and Gyalzen Mitchung Sherpa (April 27) and Lionel Terray, André Bertraud, Jean Bouvier, Pierre Leroux, Yves Pollet-Villard, Jean Ravier and Wangdi Sherpa (April 28).Liz Hawley, Himalayan DatabaseAndy Fanshawe and Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine Style, Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
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In 2016, Stableford directed The Calling: A Portrait of Life in the High Country, a short film featuring three Colorado residents—a rock climber, a rancher, and a spirits distiller—pursuing their professional dreams. The documentary was produced by Steve Tobenkin of LeTo Entertainment for Canon, and was a collaboration with Academy Award-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter. The film was presented by Canon at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In 2012, Stableford produced, directed and DP'd Shattered, a short film about renowned alpinist Steve House's search for meaning beyond climbing.
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Ludwik Chałubiński (2 August 1860, in Warsaw – 17 April 1933, in Zakopane) was a Polish Alpinist and engineer. Son of Tytus Chałubiński, Ludwik started climbing the Tatras already at the age of 14, initially with his father and then with his friends. In 1877 together with guides Wojciech Roj and Maciej Sieczka he made the first ascent of the Mięguszowiecki Szczyt Wielki. He was also the first to reach the summit of Młynarz (1885), the second to reach Baranie Rogi (1884) and the third on top of the Durny Szczyt (1881).
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Bust of Gaston Rébuffat in Marseilles, France Gaston Rébuffat (7 May 1921, Marseille - 31 May 1985, Paris) was a French alpinist, mountain guide, and author. He is well known as a member of the first expedition to summit Annapurna 1 in 1950 and the first man to climb all six of the great north faces of the Alps. In 1984, he was made an officer in the French Legion of Honour for his service as a mountaineering instructor for the French military. At the age of 64, Gaston Rébuffat died of cancer in Paris, France.
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Almost since the birth of the sport the local team has been amongst the best in Sweden. Dackarna Målilla, the original name of the team has lately changed names due to sponsorship deals. Luxo Stars and Team Svelux were two passing names until the original name once again was reinstated. The other two things which has put Målilla on the Swedish map is their bandy team Målilla Bandy which has had quite big success during the years and adventurer and mountaineer Janne Corax who is the only Swedish alpinist with first ascents in the Himalayas on the CV.
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In 1950 a number of ascents on nameless peaks were conducted led by Konstantin, where one of the peaks was given the name of "Peak of Eighteen" in honor of the first eighteen pioneers, bearing this name until 1952, renamed "Kokbulak Peak". The results of the expeditions were published in two articles called "Conquered Peaks" for 1951 and 1953, published in Moscow. For climbing the Talgar peak from the south side in 1951 (Talgar pass 5A grade) received the badge "Mountaineer of the USSR II stage". He worked as an instructor of mountaineering in the alpinist camp from 1946 to 1955.
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Qudrat Ali's mountain climbing career started in 1991 when he accompanied Paul Hudson to a peak in Shimshal, he learned the techniques of mountain climbing from him. He successfully climbed four 8000ers (Broad Peak (1999), Gasherbrum I(2004) and II(2000) and the Nanga Parbat(2001)) out of five in Pakistan. In later years he would join accomplished mountaineer Ralf Dujmovits and alpinist Simone Moro to climb different peaks in Pakistan. In 2001 he made a successful ascent of Nanga Parbat without supplemental oxygen, with Ralf Dujmovits, and Qudrat Ali was the main climber to rise every one of the fourteen crests.
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When a cornice collapses, it breaks in from the cornice to the top of the peak; even being on the snow on top of rock exposes the alpinist to hazard in this situation. The best practice in mountaineering is to stay far enough back from the edge Interview und Bilder zum Unglück so as not to be able to see the drop, as an approximate metric of exposure. In avalanche safety, cornices are a high avalanche danger as they often break and trigger larger avalanches that permeate several snow layers. Cornices are particularly vulnerable to collapse during periods of solar warming.
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King had to retire from the consular service to make their marriage official, and they traveled to England in 1925 on a Japanese ship, to avoid being separated. In 1926, possibly in response to the John Noel film The Epic of Everest (1924),Katie Ives, "Sharp End" Alpinist (August 4, 2015). Lhamo published We Tibetans: An Intimate Picture by a Woman of Tibet, of an Interesting and Distinctive People, a guide to Tibetan culture, religion, and folklore, in English, with an introduction by her British husband.Robert Barnett, "'Violated Specialness': Western Political Representations of Tibet" in Thierry Dodin and Heinz Raether, eds.
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Alpinist magazine described it in 2007 as "one of the most difficult, long free solos ever tackled", commenting that it could be described as a "speed ascent". He subsequently focused on mountains of over in the Himalaya and the Karakoram ranges, and is known for making several first ascents. These include that of the south face of Nilgiri South in the Annapurna Massif, Nepal, and of the west wall of Lupghar Sar (2018) and the south-west face of Kunyang Chhish East in the Karakorum Mountains, Pakistan. His first ascent of Lupghar Sar West was climbed solo.
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From the time of their departure until November 8, 2006, Fowler and Boskoff were in frequent contact with friends and other mountain climbers via email. One of Boskoff's final emails said that the pair would be "back in Internet contact in two weeks." On November 7, Fowler made his last known contact with the outside world in an email sent to Alpinist from Litang, China: > We're in the town of Litang for a few days, getting ready for one more trip > into the hills. We just got back from attempting a peak I tried in '96 doing > a film.
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A prominent ridge, the Stüdlgrat, named after the Prague Alpinist Johann Stüdl (1839–1925), runs from the Grossglockner away to the southwest. Together with its extension, the Luisengrat, it separates the West Face and the Teischnitzkees glacier at its foot from the South Face and its Ködnitzkees glacier. A couloir known as the Pillwaxrinne crosses the South Face below the Obere Glocknerscharte; most of the South Face lies east of this gully below the Kleinglockner. The east side of the Kleinglockner, the Glocknerleitl, is glaciated to just below the summit and is continued by the Kleinglocknerkees and Hofmannskees before reaching the Pasterze.
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The latter ascent, with a Swiss alpinist called Eberhard Phildius, was barely recognised in a later guidebook, as he had not climbed the rocks of the Comb on the left, but had instead followed snow and ice in the gully. Indeed, Raeburn's ascent was completely forgotten by 1937, when J. H. B. Bell made the second winter ascent, thinking it was the first. Of Phildius himself little is known; he was almost certainly present in Fort William to meet up with another SMC member, the Rev. A. E. Robertson, as Phildius was involved in the Youth Christian Movement.
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He led the International Himalaya Expedition (IHE) 1930 to Kangchenjunga, and another one, IHE 1934, to the Baltoro-region in the Karakorams, especially to explore the Gasherbrum-Group. This expedition made the first ascent of Sia Kangri and some of its sub-peaks and provided detailed information about the accessibility of the 8000ers Gasherbrum I and II. The first ascent of Gasherbrum I in 1958 was accomplished via the route proposed by Dyhrenfurth following the so-called IHE-spur and the SE-ridge. Dyrenfurth was a very influential alpinist, expedition leader and chronicler of mountaineering.Jon Krakauer (1997).
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On October 16, 2008 the magazine announced that it was closing operations due to financial problems. The magazine was re-launched on April 15, 2009, with Michael Kennedy as the new Editor-in-Chief, by Height of Land Publications, home of Telemark Skier and Backcountry magazines. In May 2012, Kennedy was replaced as editor-in-chief by longtime contributing editor Katie Ives. Over the years, notable Alpinist contributors have included David Roberts, Steve House, Marko Prezelj, Kyle Dempster, Steve Swenson, Ian Parnell, Hayden Kennedy, Pat Deavoll, Dean Potter, Nick Bullock, Andy Kirkpatrick, Marc-Andre Leclerc, Brette Harrington, Sibylle Hechtel, Tamotsu Nakamura, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell.
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Title page from Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, 1859, edited by John Ball while president of the Alpine Club In 1858 Ball stood for County Limerick, but was defeated, and he then gave up politics and devoted himself to natural history. He was the first president of the Alpine Club (founded 1857), and it is for his work as an alpinist that he is chiefly remembered. His well-known Alpine Guide (London, 1863–1868) was the result of innumerable climbs and journeys and of careful observation recorded in a clear and often entertaining style. Among his accomplishments, he was the first to climb a major Dolomites peak (Monte Pelmo in 1857).
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The most popular cameo appearances were undoubtedly the 2004 appearances of the presidents of Real Sociedad and Athletic Club Bilbao, football teams (Jose Luis Astiazaran and Fernando Lamikiz). This had huge media attention, and both Goenkale and the two club presidents appeared in the national papers as well as on Spanish TV news. Among the last cameo appearances were those of TV clowns Txirri, Mirri and Txiribiton, world climbing champion Patxi Usobiaga, football player Iñigo Díaz de Cerio, former Miss Spain Natalia Zabala, alpinist Edurne Pasaban, bertsolari Andoni Egaña, best seller writer Karmele Jaio and the cast of the successful TV series Go!azen.
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Dennis Ross, U.S. President Bill Clinton's chief Middle East negotiator, blamed "cold feet" on the part of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak for the breakdown.Ross, Missing Peace, 589 Clinton also laid blame on Israel, as he said after the fact in his autobiography My Life.Clinton, My Life 883-88,903 Israeli soldiers of the Alpinist Unit are dispatched to Mount Hermon In June 2007, it was reported that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had sent a secret message to Syrian President Bashar Assad saying that Israel would concede the land in exchange for a comprehensive peace agreement and the severing of Syria's ties with Iran and militant groups in the region.
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Two hours by foot further on the Refuge des Écrins is situated high above the Glacier Blanc on a prominent rocky 'pulpit', at a height of , with expansive views of the area. The hut trail runs for the most part immediately above the glacier and should only be attempted by fully equipped high-altitude alpinists because of the danger of falling into a crevasse. The high alpine base with 119 beds is often overbooked during the peak season. From La Bérarde (), the alpinist centre in the Haut Vénéon, the Glacier Blanc may be reached over the Col des Écrins () at the end of the Val de Bonne Pierre.
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The Goûter hut can in summer time be reached in about five hours by a hike and a scramble from the station of the Nid d'Aigle, terminus of the Tramway du Mont Blanc (TMB) at 2372m altitude. From there a path trodden by the multitude of aspiring climbers leads to the edge of the Tête Rousse Glacier with its namesake refuge (3,167 m). From there the dangerous Grand Couloir has to be crossed, where the scramble on the ridge alongside the couloir begins, which is highly exposed to stonefall. The refuge is mainly used by alpinist parties to climb Mont Blanc by its modern normal route on the French side.
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The scientific team, in addition to Desio (who was 57 years old), comprised Paolo Graziosi (ethnographer), (geophysicist), (petrologist) and Francesco Lombardi (topographer). Muhammad Ata-Ullah was the Pakistani liaison officer. Riccardo Cassin, the pre-eminent Italian Alpinist, had been nominated by the CAI as climbing leader but after Desio's rigorous selection procedures he was rejected, supposedly on medical grounds but it was speculated that it was really to avoid Desio being outshone. The plan was for nearly of fixed nylon ropes to be placed up the complete length of the Abruzzi Ridge and some way beyond and, where possible, loads on sledges were to be winched along these ropes.
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The Austrian alpinist Adolf Diemberger wrote in a 1966 report that in mountaineering terms Newby and Carless's reconnaissance of the Central Hindu Kush was a "negligible effort", admitting however that they "almost climbed it". The climb was more warmly described in the same year as "The first serious attempt at mountaineering in that country [the Afghan Hindu Kush]" by the Polish mountaineer Boleslaw Chwascinski. In January 2012, an expedition under the auspices of the British Mountaineering Council, citing the "popular adventure book", attempted the first winter ascent of Mir Samir, but it was cut short by an equipment theft and "very deep snow conditions and route finding difficulties".
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Aleksandrov became attracted to alpinism under the influence of his advisor Boris Delaunay. In the summer of 1937, after defending his D.Sc., :…together with I. Chashnikov he makes a first climb to the Chotchi summit, and with K. Piskaryov performs a climb of Bu-Ul'gen via the western wall (one of the first wall climbs in the history of the Soviet alpinism). […] In 1940 he participates in a record-making traversal[…] He manages, almost by a miracle, to stop the fall of A. Gromov, who had fallen along with a snow shelf. It was with this traversal that Aleksandrov completed the alpinist sports master requirements.
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Felix König Felix König (born c.1880) was an Austrian scientist, alpinist and Antarctic explorer. He was a member of Wilhelm Filchner's Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–13, which failed in its attempt to determine the nature of the link, if any, between the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea, and thereby resolve the question as to whether the continent was a single landmass or a group of several elements. In the course of the expedition König, along with Filchner, was part of the group, that disproved the existence of the land known as New South Greenland, or "Morrell's Land", supposedly discovered in 1823 by the American sealer captain, Benjamin Morrell.
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Some issues of the Guide IGC Alongside its maps I.G.C. also published the Guide IGC, a serie of guide books signed by the alpinist Giulio Berutto, who was one of the autors of CAI reference books making up the Guida dei Monti d'Italia. Each of Berutto's guide book, consisting in one or two volumes, covers the area of one of the 1:50,000 IGC map with a wide range of hiking, climbing and mountain bike itineraries. Despite its author's death in November 2004, which stopped further issues of the serie, many of the Guide IGC are still considered a reference by hikers and alpine huts managers.
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The construction of the hut goes back to a proposal by the Munich alpinist, Ferdinand Kilger, in 1890. This was taken up in 1895 by the Coburg branch of the German Alpine Club, a branch which had been founded in 1879. In 1901 the first hut was finished and, in the years that followed, it was given a water connexion (the "drinking quality water" was drawn from the Grünsteinsee, a lake which has now dried out), an electrical generator and, in 1908, a telephone line. After the First World War the building was extended for the first time and, in 1962, the material ropeway was built.
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He also climbed extensively in the Mont Blanc massif with Marcel Kurz. Wyss-Dunant also participated in several expeditions further afield: in Mexico (1936), East Africa (1937), Greenland (1938), Tibesti (Chad) (1946) and in the Himalaya (1947 and 1952). The accounts of these exploits are recorded in his books: "Appels des Sommets", "Au dela des Cîmes", "Sur les Hauts Plateaux Mexicains", "Mes Ascensions en Afrique", "Mirages Groenlandais" and "Forets et Cîmes Himalayennes". The climax of his career as an alpinist was his selection by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Exploration as leader of the Geneva-based Swiss Expedition to Everest in the spring of 1952.
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From Pré de Madame Carle and its Refuge Cézanne hut, where the road from the village of Ailefroide in the Vallouise ends at a large car park, a popular alpine walking trail runs up to the Refuge du Glacier Blanc (), from where the glacier is visible. Around 100 metres lower down the trail passes the Ancien Refuge Tuckett, a small accommodation hut from the end of the 19th century. This primitive hut, that today is an exhibit, was built immediately next to a large stone slab that had hitherto acted as a camping place from which the area could be explored. The shelter was named the Hotel Tuckett, after the alpinist Francis Fox Tuckett.
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In May 2001 he tried to traverse Everest–Lhotse: during an attempt on the wall of Lhotse at 8000 metres he abandoned the climb to search, rescue and save English alpinist Tom Moores. Moro was a recipient of the Fair Play Pierre de Coubertin trophy from UNESCO, the Civilian Gold Medal from Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and the David A. Sowles Memorial Award from the American Alpine Club. Tom Moores recalls his meeting with Moro this way: In 2009, he bought a helicopter with his own money to carry out search and rescue operations in the Nepalese Himalayas for Nepalese people. He has piloted the helicopter several times to rescue alpinists, sherpas, trekkers and people in remote areas.
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George Henry Lowe III (born August 16, 1944) is an American rock climber and alpinist, noted for his history of alpine-style mountaineering on difficult and infrequently repeated routes and his development of traditional climbing routes in the Western United States. He pioneered winter ascents in the North American Rockies along with cousins Jeff Lowe (climber), Mike Lowe, and Greg Lowe. He is also known for his technically difficult ascents of mixed climbing faces in the Himalayas including the unclimbed North Ridge of Latok I (within 200m of the summit) and the first ascent of the East Face of Mount Everest (Kangshung Face), where the Lowe Buttress bears his name. Lowe is currently a resident of Colorado.
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Whymper was the father of eleven children including Edward Whymper (1840–1911), the alpinist, illustrator and wood-engraver, who made the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865 and engraved the illustrations for Howard Willoughby's Australian Pictures (1886). Other sons were Frederick Whymper (1838–1901), an artist and explorer, and Charles H. Whymper (1853–1941), who provided illustrations for books on travel, sport and natural history, including an edition of William Yarrell's A History of British Birds (1871–89) and the Birds of Egypt (1909). Toward the end of his life he lived in Haslemere in Surrey, where he died in 1903. Examples of Whymper's work may be seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Antonio "Toni" Ortelli (November 25, 1904 in Schio, Italy – March 3, 2000 in Schio) was an Italian alpinist, conductor and composer from the Veneto. Ortelli is well known in the southern Alps regions of Italy, Austria and Switzerland for being the composer of the famous Trentino folk song "La Montanara" (The Song of the Mountains). Ortelli, according to his own account, conceived the melody and lyrics in 1927 while being on an excursion in the mountains of the Pian della Mussa in the Val d'Ala (Piedmont) and listening to the song of a shepherd. Luigi Pigarelli, under the pseudonym Pierluigi Galli, has added other vocal parts to harmonize it as a choral piece for men's choir.
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Pointe Helbronner () is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the Graian Alps on the watershed between France and Italy. The peak, which used to be a mere geodetic reference point, was named after Paul Helbronner, a French polytechnicien, alpinist and geodesist who pioneered cartography of the French Alps. Pointe Helbronner is served on the Italian side by the Skyway Monte Bianco, a cable car from La Palud, a village north of the town of Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley. Pointe Helbronner is also served by the Vallee Blanche Aerial Tramway, which crosses from the peak to the nearby peak of Aiguille du Midi in France--a peak-to-peak distance of .
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The hut was built by the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) in 1965 as a project proposed and largely overseen by noted author and alpinist William Lowell Putnam III, who later became president of the American Alpine Club for several years and a long-term board member. In 1973 the hut was renovated and considerably enlarged, a project again largely funded and overseen by Putnam. Since then it has been twice renovated and partly rebuilt. The ACC has held its annual General Mountaineering Camp in the Fairy Meadow area four times since 1981, although the hut was not used for the GMC because it is too small to accommodate all the participants.
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In 1958 the family moved to Letchworth Garden City where he established a practice in osteopathy, naturopathy and medical herbalism. After Frank's demise, his eldest son Roger took over the clinic and ran it until his own retirement in January 2016. The Farmer had featured a supplement on organic horticulture and, in 1957, Newman Turner launched The Gardener, Small Livestock and Pet Owner as a monthly magazine with eminent horticulturist W. E. Shewell-Cooper, as associate editor, and Lawrence D. Hills a regular contributor. Lawrence Hills, a well known alpinist and horticultural writer, founded the Henry Doubleday Research Association (now Garden Organic) in 1954 and invited Newman Turner to become its first president, a position he held until his death.
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McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins; Studies in Medieval Life and Literature, p. 6, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 > For pleasure alone he climbed Mont Ventoux, which rises to more than six > thousand feet, beyond Vaucluse. It was no great feat, of course; but he was > the first recorded Alpinist of modern times, the first to climb a mountain > merely for the delight of looking from its top. (Or almost the first; for in > a high pasture he met an old shepherd, who said that fifty years before he > had attained the summit, and had got nothing from it save toil and > repentance and torn clothing.) Petrarch was dazed and stirred by the view of > the Alps, the mountains around Lyons, the Rhone, the Bay of Marseilles.
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Felix König Filchner had lost his enthusiasm for Antarctic exploration, but the Austrian Felix König, a biologist and alpinist who had accompanied Filchner on the German expedition, was anxious to make a repeat attempt on a Weddell Sea landing and to resume Filchner's aborted plans. With the help of wealthy backers in Austria, he bought Deutschland and changed her name once again, this time to Osterreich. When he announced his plans early in 1914, he found that they clashed with those of Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, by this time well advanced. Shackleton claimed priority because he had stated his initial intentions as far back as 1909; König claimed that as a co-discoverer of the Vahsel Bay location, and as Filchner's approved successor, he had the prior right to work in this area.
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Alexander Burgener Alexander Burgener (10 January 1845, Saas Fee – 8 July 1910, near the Berglihütte) was a Swiss mountain guide and the first ascentionist of many mountains and new routes in the western Alps during the silver age of alpinism. Together with Albert Mummery, he made the first ascent of the Zmuttgrat on the Matterhorn on 3 September 1879, and of the Grands Charmoz (1880) and the Aiguille du Grépon in the Mont Blanc Massif (5 August 1881). With another British alpinist, Clinton Thomas Dent, he made the first ascent of the Lenzspitze (August 1870) and the Grand Dru (12 September 1878), He was killed by an avalanche on 8 July 1910 near the Berglihütte in the Bernese Alps. Six other climbers died in the avalanche, including Burgener's son Adolf.
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After the failure of an attempt to form a cabinet in May 1881 he practically retired from public life, devoting himself to his studies and his linen factory. Quintino Sella died in 1884 and was buried at Oropa where a pyramid was erected by the engineer Carlo Maggia as his monument; the implied anti-clericalism of this choice of an ‘Egyptian’ style matched Sella’s rôle in the occupation of Rome. A passionate alpinist, he had found time during his political career to found the Club Alpino Italiano and a number of its mountain huts are named in his honour. He was also involved in the competition for the first ascent of the Matterhorn and he was portrayed in several related films such as The Mountain Calls and The Challenge.
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Having served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Britain, Greece, Crete, Egypt, Ceylon, Iraq and Jerusalem, Pugh was invited by fellow Harrovian W. J. Riddell, on the basis of his skiing and climbing expertise, to join the recently established School of Mountain Warfare at the Cedars resort in Lebanon, working for two years alongside A. D. M. Cox (an Oxford don and a considerable alpinist in his own right) and John Carryer. Pugh wrote papers for the School that were later used in the Army Training Manual, did much ski mountaineering, often ascending 3,000 to 4,000 feet, crossing 20 miles on trips that lasted up to 12 hours in self-contained units that could be self- sufficient for over a week, and training troops to oppose crack German mountain formations.
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In 1902 he transformed it into a joint stock company, with his cousins Wilhelm Kuffner and Karl Kuffner de Diószegh as partners. He was also president of the sugar refinery in Diószeg in Western Slovakia and of the Steinbruck brewery in Budapest; was among the largest owners of real estate in Vienna; owned significant collections of art including many works by Albrecht Dürer; and was a founding member of the Musikverein. From 1900 to 1919 he was an executive director of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien. In addition, Moriz was an enthusiastic and highly reputed alpinist who scaled most of the alpine summits of 4,000 m height and above, establishing new routes on the Eiger, Mont Blanc, Mont Pelvoux, Mont Maudit (on which the well-known Kuffner or Frontier ridge is named after him) and others.
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His father, R.C. Barooah, was the flight engineer on Air India Flight 101. In September 2013 a French alpinist found a metal box marked with the Air India logo at the site of the plane crash on Mont Blanc containing rubies, sapphires, and emeralds worth more than $300,000, which he handed in to the police to be returned to the rightful owners. As part of her research for her book Crash au Mont-Blanc, which tells the story of the two Air India crashes on the mountain, Françoise Rey found a record of a box of emeralds sent to a man named Issacharov in London, described by Lloyd's. In 2017 Daniel Roche, a Swiss climber who has searched the Bossons Glacier for wreckage from Air India Flights 245 and 101, found human remains and wreckage including a Boeing 707 aircraft engine.
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Thereafter they both became members of the Labour Party, Stephen particularly active in the League of Labour Lawyers and later the Haldane Society. In early 1939 he was sent to Lithuania to represent Jewish citizens subjected to Nazi oppression. Stephen was heavily involved in the events of 1948 leading to the split of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers from the Labour Party, over the question of communist membership.David Renton, And, next year, Haldane will be eighty years old..., Socialist Lawyer No. 50 (September 2008), pp. 14–16. Published by: Pluto Journals The third of four sons, Robin’s older brothers were Gilbert (1931-1963) a physicist and alpinist who died in a rockfall on Fox Glacier, New Zealand; and Alexander (1934-) who is a medieval historian. Hubert (1946-) is an architect living and working in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Notable Reed alumni include Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum (1936), businessman John Sperling (1948), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gary Snyder (1951), fantasy author David Eddings (1954), distance learning pioneer John Bear (1959), socialist and feminist activist and author Barbara Ehrenreich (1963), radio personality Dr. Demento (1963), programmer, software publisher, author, and philanthropist Peter Norton (1965), former U.S. Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig (1965), alpinist and biophysical chemist Arlene Blum (1966), chemist Mary Jo Ondrechen (1974), computer engineer Daniel Kottke (1976), and Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger (1991). Among those who attended but did not graduate from Reed are Academy Award-nominated actress Hope Lange, chef James Beard, and Apple co- founder and CEO Steve Jobs. Notable Reed faculty of the past and present include former U.S. Senator from Illinois Paul Douglas, and physicists Richard Crandall and David Griffiths.
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In her travels she covered the North American continent from Alaska to Panama, both coasts of South America and the interior of the southern portion, eastern, western, and southern Asia and northern Africa; and she made numerous visits to Europe. Her activity as an Alpinist began with eight ascents of first-class peaks in the Alps in 1909-10. Starting with the opportunity to climb the Matterhorn, Keen traveled to Zermatt in the summer of 1909, where she climbed the Zinal Rothorn, the Monte Rosa, the Weisshorn, and the Matterhorn. In the midsummer of 1911 her inadequately outfitted expedition, hastily organized for the ascent of Mount Blackburn (16, 140 feet) (4919 m) in Alaska, was unsuccessful, as the expedition wasted 4½ days trying to climb two different glaciers at the mountain base, compared with a total expected climb time of 12 days.
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Today there are more than 20 AKUT units and more than 1,000 volunteers all over Turkey, and until today 852 people have been rescued or moved to safe environments by AKUT. Nasuh Mahruki resigned from his duty as the chairman of the board on November 30, 2016 as a result of strong pressure from the Turkish government, after his speech on TV against the president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Nasuh Mahruki is also the co-founder of Common Purpose Association of Turkey and he is a member of UGSAD (National Security and Strategic Research Association), TMOK (National Olympic Commity of Turkey), SAD (Underwater Research Association) and Travellers Club of Turkey. His books published in Turkish are; “Diary of an Alpinist”, “First Turk on Everest”, “In Search of a Dream”, “Roads of Asia, Himalayas, and Beyond”; “Earth Diary”; “Motherland is Loved by Actions not by Empty Words”.
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Steck's was the first solo ascent of Annapurna, which won him his second Piolet d'Or. In the winter of 2014/15, Steck and linked up the three north faces of the Tre Cime di Lavaredo/Drei Zinnen in 16 hours. In the summer of 2015, he climbed all 82 summits in the Alps higher than 4000 meters in 62 days without the use of motorized travel.Ueli Steck schafft alle Alpen- Viertausender in 62 Tagen (in German)Susan Joy Paul, Ueli Steck Interview: Climbing all 82 4000-Meter Peaks in the Alps, Alpinist, 18 August 2015 Two days slower than the 60-day record, his time included a period when Steck had suspended the tour on July 22, after his climbing partner on the Aiguille de Rochefort, Martijn Seuren, had fallen to his death on this final peak to make him the first Dutch person to climb all 82 4000ers.
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Its summit was the highest summit attained for three years, until the first successful ascent of Mount Everest (although higher non-summit points - at least - had already been attained on Everest in the 1920s). The south face of Annapurna was first climbed in 1970 by Don Whillans and Dougal Haston also without using supplementary oxygen, members of a British expedition led by Chris Bonington that included the alpinist Ian Clough, who was killed by a falling serac during the descent. They were, however, beaten to the second ascent of Annapurna by a matter of days by a British Army expedition led by Colonel Henry Day. In 1978, the American Women's Himalayan Expedition, a team led by Arlene Blum, became the first United States team to climb Annapurna I. The first summit team, composed of Vera Komarkova and Irene Miller, and Sherpas Mingma Tsering and Chewang Ringjing, reached the top at 3:30 pm on 15 October 1978.
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First Ascent of the face "New Hard Big Alpine Rockies Climb by Marc-Andre Leclerc and Luka Lindic" Gripped: The Climbing Magazine. Retrieved February 2020 2015 - Mount Slesse, Cascade Range – Triple Link-up of East Pillar Direct (5.10+), Navigator Wall (5.10+), Northeast Buttress (5.9+), Free Solo in 12 hours, 4 minutes 2015 - Mount Slesse, Cascade Range – Northeast Buttress, Free Solo in winter, 2nd Winter Ascent, First Winter Free Ascent (5.9+) Franz, Derek "Good conditions result in new winter ascents of Slesse's Navigator Wall and satellite peaks" The Alpinist. Retrieved February 2020 2015 - Tomahawk/Exocet Link Up – Aguja Standhardt, Patagonia, – Onsight Free Solo (5.8) 2015 - Directa de la Mentira – Cerro Torre North Face, Patagonia, First Ascent (5.10) Carpenter, Hayden "Colin Haley and Marc-André Leclerc Put Up New Routes in Patagonia" Rock and Ice. Retrieved February 2020 2015 - Reverse Torre Traverse, Patagonia – First Ascent (5.10a) 2015 - East Pillar – Torre Egger, Patagonia, First Solo Winter Ascent (5.10b)Carpenter, Hayden "Marc-André Leclerc Solos Patagonia’s Torre Egger in Winter" Rock and Ice.
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During four years they climbed, generally at a very fast pace, a lot of prestigious routes. At barely 17, Destivelle had already climbed, leading, the Cousy-Desmaison Route (ED, 800m), north face of l'Olan (3564m), the Devies-Gervasutti Route (TD+, 1050m), northwest face of l'Ailefroide (3848m), and the American Direct (ED1: 5.10+ A0, 1100m), west face of le Petit Dru (3732m).Alpinist, "Faces: Catherine Destivelle", Issue 7, June 2004. Retrieved 17 September 2010 via Google cache. At the same time, Destivelle was studying physiotherapy at the Ecole de kinésithérapie de Paris, and she began to work as a physiotherapist from 1981 to 1985, losing touch with her climbing activities. It was only in 1985 that she started a full-time career in rock and mountain climbing, after coming back to rock climbing through some occasional stunts she was performing in the movie industry and for some TV programs, and after meeting Lothar Mauch during the shooting of E Pericoloso Sporgersi, who persuaded her to think again about her opposition to competition in rock climbing.
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Alongside Albert Mummery, Dent was one of the most prominent of the British climbers who attempted the few remaining unclimbed mountains in the Alps in the period known as the silver age of alpinism. As an alpinist, Dent was very different from Mummery: Dent's first ascents in the Alps include the Lenzspitze (4,294 m) in the Pennine Alps in August 1870, with Alexander Burgener and a porter, Franz Burgener (of whom Dent wrote 'his conversational powers were limited by an odd practice of carrying heavy parcels in his mouth'), and the Portjengrat (Pizzo d'Andollo, 3,654 m) above the valley of Saas-Fee in 1871. On 5 September 1872 the combined parties of Dent and guide Alexander Burgener, with George Augustus Passingham, and his guides Ferdinand Imseng and Franz Andermatten, made the first ascent of the south-east ridge of the Zinalrothorn (4,221 m); this is the current voie normale on the mountain.Dumler and Burkhardt, p. 136 The Aiguille du Dru He then turned his attention to the Aiguille du Dru (3,754 m), a steep granite peak in the Mont Blanc massif that had been ignored by the early generation of alpinists whose ambitions had been focused more on the higher mountains.
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