"Climbers have begun to move from the base camp to higher camps for the summit," Shrestha told Reuters from Base Camp.
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It doesn't take more than an hour and a half between Kande and the first base camp, Australian Base Camp, but it was the stage I found the most challenging.
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Visitors will be able to tweet, chat, email and share from the Lukla-Everest Base Camp and the Annapurna Base Camp with the help of free Wi-Fi offered by Nepal.
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The lowlanders took samples, including blood and muscle biopsies, at three different times: in London, for the baseline measurement; upon arrival to base camp; and after two months working at base camp.
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One Mount Everest base camp is now closed to tourists.
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In fact, 40,000 people visited the base camp in 2015.
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It's less if you just go to the base camp.
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It is just over an hour from Australian Base Camp.
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And now you're on your way to… Everest Base Camp?
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Each climber underwent a medical checkup before leaving base camp.
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The next morning, all four returned to the base camp.
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Then fly to Pakistan and trek quickly to base camp.
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Shahid Sardar, a representative of military-owned Askari Aviation, told Reuters that Revol was spotted near Nanga Parbat's Base Camp 22016, while the Polish rescue team had been dropped off at Base Camp 1.
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His partner sat at the base camp for a week, grieving.
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While there, he photographed this porter leaving the Everest base camp.
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Soldiers relaxed in their tent at Base Camp Donna in Texas.
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CreditCreditTamir Kalifa for The New York Times BASE CAMP DONNA, Tex.
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We were monitoring the weather minute by minute back at base camp.
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The Chinese base camp, located in Tibet, was accessible by car. 4.
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The base camp was your hub where people were coming and going.
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It took place just above base camp in the Khumbu Ice Fall.
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The hermitage at base camp, the glasses of brandy— That's the past.
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I stayed at Midgard Base Camp, a hotel geared toward outdoor adventure.
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In 2015 alone, Tibet welcomed over 40,000 visitors to the base camp.
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The rest of their party had returned to base camp, Haidri confirmed.
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This year, the training was hosted on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
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"Look, we're at the base camp of Mt. Everest," Governor Brown said.
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Kulusuk is also base camp for NASA's OMG (Oceans Melting Greenland) program.
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Over 5,63 kilograms of that is human waste at the base camp.
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The base camp is located at 19,685 feet (6,000 meters) above sea level.
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Artist's depiction of the "Ancient Beringians" and their Upward Sun River base camp.
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Better to wait at base camp to ensure the whole team is present.
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Once you're at base camp, I just need to see a repeat performance.
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This image depicts Mount Tutse, as seen from above base camp on Makalu .
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Since then its base camp has been attacked by armed groups four times.
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Book a room at the Midgard Base Camp, available from $48 a night
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These are the views we had before arriving at the last base camp
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With all of the gear accounted for, our group embarks to Base Camp.
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Cover: The entrance to Marine Corps base Camp Pendleton is seen Tuesday, Sept.
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He boarded a helicopter after reaching base camp and flew back to Kathmandu.
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"The last toilet at Everest base camp is a pit latrine," Zaharin continues.
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Many spent weeks at base camp just waiting without guarantee they'll actually reach it.
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A porter walks with a massive load towards Everest Base Camp near Lobuche, Nepal.
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According to reports, the weather started to worsen before the team reached base camp.
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The county fairgrounds in Santa Rosa once again morphed into a disaster base camp.
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With Mars Base Camp, Lockheed Martin is offering—and independently developing—a concrete solution.
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You can think of Cadillac House as the base camp for the brand's vision.
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On the Nepalese side, the base camp requires a 2-week hike to access.
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I thought I was going to have to turn around at Australian Base Camp.
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Shelke also said that no one had seen the couple beyond the base camp.
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A leadership program a few miles south of the base camp is not affected.
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Base Camp, which sits 17,600 feet above sea level, can regularly reach subzero temperatures.
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It was really dark, and I turned around to go back to base camp.
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Just getting to Everest Base Camp, Nepal/China, requires tracking 81 miles round trip.
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At K2 base camp, the air has half the oxygen found at sea level.
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At Birdy Base Camp, young visitors can investigate nests, eggs, feathers and other objects.
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MOUNT EVEREST BASE CAMP, CHINA: The Chinese government closed its side of the Everest base camp this year to anyone without a climbing permit due to the huge amounts of rubbish piling up at the site, according to the Lonely Planet travel website.
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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, California — Multiple units on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton have started to introduce the new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle to their Marines by teaching them the basic operations of one of the Marine Corps' newest ground vehicles.
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It's a more pure experience if you wait to post-process it in base camp.
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At base camp in Sonoma, many said they were aware of these expanding chemical dangers.
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He would bring his saxophone to set and serenade everyone at base camp during breaks.
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More than 26,483 pounds of human excrement is dumped at Mount Everest's Base Camp annually.
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The rescue effort began on Saturday when the climbers failed to return to base camp.
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The parking lot of Panama City Mall serves as their base camp and logistical headquarters.
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On May 17, 2009, Jesse Easterling stumbled into a medical tent at Everest Base Camp.
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By placing a 3G base station about 150 meters below base camp, NCell had brought voice and data coverage to locals in the Khumbu valley, those working at base camp, and the roughly 40,000 tourists who go trekking in the Everest region every year.
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The entire group was supposed to reach its base camp on May 26, according to Jogdande.
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Veteran climber David Morton spoke to CNN from base camp on the Tibetan side of Everest.
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The two women had made the trek to base camp with the "mountain men" they loved.
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After a six-day trek, the team reached Nanda Devi East base camp on May 18.
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Everest Base Camp is around 17,600 feet, which is plenty high enough to sicken unadjusted visitors.
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He was airlifted to the Everest Base Camp last year after the earthquake and subsequent avalanche.
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You can also gather Pokémon into teams of three for battle, and customise your base camp.
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"For me, I'd gotten him to where he was at Everest, at base camp," Rasheed said.
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The 35-year-old actress soon heads to Nepal to climb to Mt. Everest's base camp.
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Eighteen people reportedly died at base camp during that incident, according to local news site AL.com.
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South Korea's President Moon Jae-in has invited Trump to visit the military base, Camp Humphreys.
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The Mount Everest base camp became overrun with tourists and was forced to close in February.
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It's Russian roulette and it's the only way to get from base camp to camp one.
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To hike to Everest Base Camp is a bucket list adventure for many travelers, including myself.
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The thin air and frigid temperatures of Base Camp put it beyond both capability and desire.
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At these groups like Brown Girls Climb or Melanin Base Camp, I don't have to explain.
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Roughly 30 rockets were fired from a homemade mobile launcher miles outside the base, Camp Taji.
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Our unit's responsibility was to protect the Tay Ninh Base Camp, and especially the ammunition dump.
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Evidence, including bedding, showed that the people who lived there used it as a base camp.
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Trump is the Everest of delusion and depravity; Clinton ascended only a bit beyond base camp.
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The Mars Base Camp proposal would also fit within the NASA budget, Lockheed Martin officials said.
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Juan Vasquezninco provides security during small boat raid training at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.
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The magnitude-7.8 temblor caused an avalanche, which killed 18 people at the Everest base camp.
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Earlier in 2010, Nepal's private telecom operator Ncell had launched 3G services in the Everest base camp.
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The elevation at Everest Base Camp is 17,590 feet, an altitude that decreases oxygen by about 50%.
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The fourth climber from the team, Sunita Hazra, was rescued and is undergoing treatment at base camp.
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A fourth climber from the team, Sunita Hazra, was rescued and was undergoing treatment at base camp.
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Allen Gula and Orion Haas were a two days' journey east of their destination, Everest Base Camp.
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Veteran climber David Morton spoke to CNN from base camp on the Tibetan side of Mt. Everest.
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On Monday, she posted a new photo at Base Camp that showed her practicing ice fall climbs.
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He and his group survived the incident and descended to base camp, where a helicopter rescued them.
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Below at 5300 metres, many more were waiting to acclimatise to the thin air in base camp.
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A memorial was built at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and dedicated on Oct.
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The Mount Everest base camp accumulated so much trash from tourists that it had to be closed.
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These are the stairs I had to climb to reach the first base camp on the course
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The Plaisted expedition of 2000 had failed by then, but the men were still at base camp.
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They were at the base camp located at 3,500 meters (11,482) at the time of the storm.
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The elevation at this remote settlement, located on the trail to Everest Base Camp, is 2600,230 feet.
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The meal won't be at the top of the mountain, to be clear, but at base camp.
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I figured this was my getting-off point, my base camp for the desert trip I'd sought.
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We toured the base camp, the control center and Otto, one of two German-built antenna movers.
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The agency's "Eco Expeditions" have since collected over 20.2 tons of garbage accumulated above Everest's base camp.
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Its base camp is known for its spectacular beauty and thousands of trekkers go there every year.
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The lobby is designed like a "base camp," with tent-like benches for meetings before venturing upstairs.
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After bad weather set in that day, he told her, he walked ahead to the base camp.
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Sherpas' measurements hardly changed once they reached the base camp, suggesting they were born with such biological traits.
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So too did Min Bahadur Sherchan, a Nepalese who, on May 6th, died at the Everest base camp.
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Nath's climbing companion Paul, 44, died Sunday at Base Camp II from altitude sickness, according to Wangchu Sherpa.
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Time is spent split between a base camp where your new friends roam freely, and exploring the island.
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Posts on the Facebook page said there would be breakfast and mimosas Saturday morning at the base camp.
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The boys in Defeated Sanity won't be making it to the Mount Everest Base Camp this time, unfortunately.
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Ballinger and Richards set out to Snapchat their adventure up Everest in April when they reached base camp.
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Motherboard's Daniel Oberhaus did the climb, tweeted from base camp, and learned how E-verest came to be.
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As a response, the Chinese government decided to shut down the base camp to tourists in February 2019.
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The earthquake occurred during the peak climbing season, and massive avalanches killed 18 people at the base camp.
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But he says mini digesters at Kathmandu University successfully converted human waste from base camp to methane gas.
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Now, he's super fit and part of the Calton Athletic team going to Everest base camp this November.
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Unlike most dining experience, the Base Camp leg of this culinary tour will last a whopping 14 days.
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Two years later she established Melanin Base Camp, an online community for people of color in adventure sports.
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Hours later and 15 miles away, rain was in the forecast as night fell upon Base Camp Donna.
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Lockheed Martin officials said their vision for Mars Base Camp did not depend on their design's being selected.
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Kami had begun his descent and is expected to reach base camp by the weekend, Shrestha told Reuters.
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The EcoLoo co-founder still has one mountain to conquer: getting her toilet installed at Everest base camp.
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Apple earned $48 billion last year, mostly from iPhone sales, so this looks like base camp for the company.
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After a mess dinner, we spend a chilly night in the dormitories on the US military base, Camp Walker.
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At the time, he spoke from Everest base camp about the risks associated with climbing at such high altitudes.
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Mandy Moore just checked a massive goal off her bucket list: making it to base camp on Mt. Everest.
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Reaching Everest Base Camp is one of several major hiking milestones that Moore has hit in the last year.
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On weekends away from base camp, you'll eat from cans of beans with sticks you find on the ground.
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The people in base camp anxiously chewed their nails and fidgeted while waiting for their "weather window" to open.
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Then, last April, a series of earthquakes killed nearly 25,413 people, including at least 241 at South Base Camp.
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Ted Gover, Ph.D. is Instructor of Political Science at Central Texas College, U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.
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The Chinese government announced in February that only tourists with climbing permits could access its Mount Everest base camp.
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"We really focused on our heritage and what you see is really part base camp, part archives," Parker said.
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Four of the climbers of the larger team went to climb Nanda Devi East and returned to base camp.
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My journey to Base Camp began with a very short but gut-wrenching flight from Kathmandu to Lukla, Nepal.
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Elandria Williams is an organizer at the Highlander Center in Tennessee, a historic base camp for agitators and activists.
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Kevin J. Killea, the commanding general for Marine Corps Installations West – Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, in a statement.
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After returning to base camp, Lowe turned around and completed a solo first ascent up Ama Dablam's south face.
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While you'll undoubtedly spend a lot of time alone with your thoughts, the climber compared base camp to summer camp!
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The groups—who were matched for age, sex, and general fitness level—then trekked from Katmandu to Everest Base Camp.
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The Hondo Base Camp Chair has been a mainstay in Yeti's line-up, delivering comfort and stability to the campsite.
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They hope to get down to Base Camp II tomorrow if weather clears and from there get a helicopter out.
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Well aware of the hazards of climbing Everest, Dr. Luanne Freer founded the Everest Base Camp Medical Clinic in 2003.
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Indian national Subash Paul died at Base Camp II -- at an elevation of about 226,163 feet -- Sunday from altitude sickness.
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Wu and his team rented an overland-rig all-terrain vehicle for their trip to their base camp in Chile.
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After shooting the eclipse, the crew returned to their base camp in the hills above the town of La Higuera.
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Walt Pederson, the mechanic, started to tinker with a snowmobile only to discover he'd forgotten his tools at base camp.
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Chambers is a senior systems engineer at the aerospace and defense giant, helping to lead the Mars Base Camp project.
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Some of us have climbed to Everest Base Camp; some of us just bought our first pairs of hiking boots.
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I leave base camp behind and begin my slow, labored ascent; the fluid, open concept of intimacy spurs me onward.
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Apple earned $48 billion last year, mostly from iPhone sales, so this looks like the base camp for the company.
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Mr. Davy arrived in Nepal on March 17, and received a $55 permit to climb to the Everest Base Camp.
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As coincidence would have it, George Mason University is today the core academic base camp of the Koch political operation.
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Ted Gover, Ph.D. is an instructor of political science at Central Texas College, U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.
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There's erotic potential anywhere humans are stranded or sequestered: the Downton Abbey estate, a remote scientific base camp, Gilligan's Island.
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The next time I powered it on would be in base camp, standing in the shadow of the world's highest peak.
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This is because the summit has direct line of sight connection with stations on the ground, whereas base camp does not.
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The entire group was supposed to reach its base camp on May 26, according to Uttarakhand District Magistrate, Vijay Kumar Jogdande.
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On Tuesday, U.S. president Donald Trump stopped by military base Camp Humphreys for lunch, during his official visit to South Korea.
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A May 17 press release from ASKfm, published after the group returned to base camp, did not mention the Sherpa's status.
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A government official at the base camp, Gyanendra Shrestha, says Kami Rita reached the summit on Wednesday and is safely descending.
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A year later, Nima Doma Sherpa's husband was killed along with 15 other Sherpas in an avalanche near the base camp.
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Matt [Cooper], the cook, he went down [to Lico] because he had been basically on base camp the whole time cooking.
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Min Bahadur Sherchan died of a heart attack at base camp on Saturday afternoon, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA).
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Since that first day, Hamidaddin was helicoptered back to base camp at Barneo, and the prognosis for her frostbite was good.
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Whatever the reason, Chhurim had made her double ascent from Everest Base Camp inside a week -- faster than Jamsenpa's 2011 achievement.
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Rudd and O'Brady had been racing the entire time, having left base camp together to start their journey on Nov. 3.
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Toby grabbed the camera and began filming the massive debris cloud as it swept down the icefall and towards base camp.
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"The base camp that I was living on at Everest was 1,000 feet higher than the summit of Denali," he said.
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In Independence, California, population 669, hikers keep the "Full" sign lit for weeks at the Mt. Williamson Motel and Base Camp.
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But even just getting to the base camp requires an 81-mile journey round trip, which can take around 12 days.
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Many climbers from higher up the mountain began making their way down to Base Camp, at 17,600 feet above sea level.
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Two weeks after his redeployment to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California he got on a plane to see her.
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As for El Capitan, every climber from Everest base camp to the Brooklyn Boulders gym recognizes it as the indispensable cliff.
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Though he had no permit, he climbed up through the Khumbu Icefall, a dangerous pass toward Everest from the base camp.
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Agency official Sherpa said all summiteers were on their way to base camp and expected to return to Kathmandu this week.
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Agency official Sherpa said all summiteers were on their way to base camp and expected to return to Kathmandu this week.
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The base, Camp Lemonnier, holds about 220006,2202 U.S. troops and serves as a launch point for operations in Somalia and Yemen.
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Over the past week, hundreds of lawyers had rotated though the group's base camp: the Central Diner restaurant in Terminal 4.
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The base, Camp Lemonnier, holds about 4,000 U.S. troops and serves as a launch point for operations in Somalia and Yemen.
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"It can get rough," a 2nd lieutenant told Insider during a recent visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.
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In 2000, six people died, a typical number, including a cook in Base Camp and an Indian man near the summit.
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You may know me as someone who hoped to visit Everest Base Camp until they told me I couldn't drive there.
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Everest Base Camp, Nepal (CNN)Our helicopter lands in Lukla, a small town best known for being the gateway to Mount Everest.
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"A signal receiver would be installed at the base camp -- at a nearest point possible to the summit of Everest," Shrestha explained.
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In 2014, 16 Sherpa guides were killed by an avalanche above base camp, resulting in nearly all climbers to abandon their attempts.
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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was badly damaged after Hurricane Florence struck the region in September 2018, for example.
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In contrast, Everest's base camp (which, to be clear, is not the peak of Everest) was a positively balmy negative 2 degrees.
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All of the faeces from base camp would then be converted into two by-products: fertiliser and methane gas, possibly for cooking.
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But he doesn't even reach base camp on the slopes of Trump, whose campaign is one bottomless, boundless soliloquy of self-congratulation.
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Before attempting a May summit, Kedrowski recommends arriving at base camp toward the beginning of April to acclimatize for a few weeks.
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But the specimen was duly acquired, popped in a plastic bag, labelled and carried back to base camp for processing and identification.
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Because he spent all this money on climbing gear, Davy made the 100-mile trek from base camp to Kathmandu by foot.
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Ultimately, the success of the Mars Base Camp vision depends on whether NASA decides to actually incorporate it into its Mars mission.
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Here at dusk on a cool September evening, vans began dropping off the 120 extras from a base camp several miles away.
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He served on the House Armed Services Committee and represented Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.
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An 85-year-old Nepali man died at base camp this month while trying to set a record for the oldest climber.
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In 2013, gunmen dressed as police officers shot 10 foreign mountaineers and a local guide at Nanga Parbat's 4,200-metre base camp.
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With the distance from base camp growing, a refueling station was established halfway to the pole, using a beacon devised by Powellek.
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Within hours of the avalanche, base camp was reduced to a war zone; helicopters swarmed overhead transporting the bodies of dead Sherpas.
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By the time they got back to base camp, their lunch was almost ready, so they convened in the large dining tent.
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The earthquake struck around noon and triggered a massive avalanche at base camp that swept away all of the doctors' personal tents.
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Marines from 1st Marine Division hike through a simulated chemical attack at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California on January 12, 2019.
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The Indian Army posted photos of 32-inch footprints near a base camp in Nepal, saying they belonged to the mythical snowman.
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None of those teams will cause anyone any sleepless nights at the English base camp in Repino, just north of St. Petersburg.
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"Weather is not good at the moment; there is a lot of wind," Mr. Shrestha said by phone from the base camp.
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Bases used by the United States include Camp Arifjan, Camp Buehring, Ali Al Salem Air Field and the naval base Camp Patriot.
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Tenji Sherpa, Mr. Steck's trekking partner, was at Everest Base Camp when the accident happened, because he had frostbite on his hand.
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At least 160 are believed to have been killed on Friday at the sprawling base, Camp Shaheen, northern Afghanistan's largest army installation.
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It says that the Nanda Devi team had reached their second base camp at 4,870 meters, their home for the next week.
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The price for a connection was also admirable: For about $7, I was able to purchase a 100MB connection card at base camp.
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Although I was impressed with the quality and reliability of the Wi-Fi available at base camp, the system isn't immune to failure.
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But 12 days later, on May 25, only four of the group returned to base camp, said Uttarakhand's Senior District Official, R.D. Paliwal.
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After the eight-person group failed to return to base camp on May 26, the authorities were alerted on May 31, Jogdande said.
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It can track small transmitters attached to the animal, weighing only about one gram, that send a radio signal back to base camp.
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Since the 2016 climbing season opened on Everest, about 300 people have scaled, according to data from Everest Base Camp as of Saturday.
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I collected a sample and showed it to Ara [Monadjem] at base camp, who told me it was a small species of rat.
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Nepali climbing guide Dhruba Bista fell ill on the mountain and was transported by helicopter to the base camp, where he died Friday.
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The area encompasses Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti -- home to the U.S. naval expeditionary base Camp Lemonnier -- as well as Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia.
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For every 100 people who conquer Everest, four never return to base camp; more than 200 bodies lie amid the ice and rock.
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Donald's tragic death marks the twelfth fatal incident to occur in the mountain range this season, base camp officials told The Himalayan Times.
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I'm a doctoral researcher in tourism studies who was stationed for six weeks between April and May 2019 at the Everest Base Camp.
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As if it was walky-talkied from the base camp of my desires, I found myself wanting exactly what I thought I didn't.
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From Amsterdam's floating flower market to the base camp at Mount Everest, these spots are closed to visitors, or have simply shut down.
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Only 300 climbing permits are granted throughout the year, so for all intents and purposes, it's almost impossible to reach base camp now.
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I hope that when we get to base camp, we won't have the same menu in our heads as when we set out.
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I traveled with a translator to base camp to find out what made them come back after two consecutive seasons marred by tragedy.
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Every year, thousands of people snake along steep trails to reach South Base Camp, which sits more than 17,000 feet above sea level.
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"Beetle" was built around a cast of misfits at a military base, Camp Swampy, and Army humor, as Mort often said, writes itself.
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Mountaineers from the Indian Army spotted the 32-inch footprints near the Makalu Base Camp in Nepal, the army said Monday on Twitter.
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There are about 1,000 troops stationed at Base Camp Donna, and about 1,300 in the Rio Grande Valley region of South Texas, Maj.
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We had hiked up and set a base camp at Campamento Los Torres, gone to bed early, then awoke at 4:45 a.m.
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A Slovenian adventurer, Karnicar needed less than five hours to ski 28,2000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest to its base camp.
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A Slovenian adventurer, Karnicar needed less than five hours to ski 28,2000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest to its base camp.
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Though the summit was tantalizingly close — just 400 feet — the party turned back and returned to base camp after 26 days of climbing.
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From Kathmandu, Nepal's bustling capital, mountaineers take a short flight to Lukla, then trek about 2000 days to Everest Base Camp (21,217 feet).
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On May 22, the Moran Mountain group posted on Facebook saying the team had reached their second base camp at 15,977 feet (313,870 meters).
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After establishing base camp, the team attacked the mountain "siege" style, slowly pitching a small series of camps higher and higher up the mountain.
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On the Tibetan side of Mount Everest, tourists were able to take a car to a base camp, making it a popular tourist destination.
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LeBron James sent a taco truck to the base camp of first responders fighting the California wildfiresPhotos show the raging destruction of California's wildfires
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They could also be used to deliver supplies to astronauts who have embarked away from a Mars base camp to explore the surrounding landscape.
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In February, the Chinese government announced that the world's tallest mountain above sea level was closing its base camp to all non-climbing tourists.
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Jogdande previously told CNN that after the eight climbers failed to return to base camp on May 26, authorities were alerted on May 31.
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There, John Moriarty, a 28-year-old working in research, asked if he could come along to help with logistics at the base camp.
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Washington (CNN)Hurricane Florence ravaged Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina in September, leaving behind an estimated $3.6 billion worth of wreckage.
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The two adventurers departed Punta Arenas, Chile, on Halloween and then the Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions (ALE) base camp at Union Glacier on Nov. 3.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — A few years ago, Kami Rita Sherpa, a veteran climber and guide, met with a gruesome sight at Mount Everest Base Camp.
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A few hours before Mr. Musk's talk on Friday, Lockheed Martin provided an update of its own Mars mission vision, called Mars Base Camp.
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He made another attempt in 2015, but an earthquake killed nearly 9,000 people, including 18 in an avalanche that hit the mountain's base camp.
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These men will hike through knee-deep snow to a base camp at 18,645 feet, surpassing all but one mountain in the United States.
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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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In future operations, legs of this tunnel complex would even be discovered directly under the 21968th Infantry Division's huge base camp at Cu Chi.
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He has climbing experience, but even the most accomplished climbers spend months preparing and weeks acclimating at Base Camp before pushing toward the summit.
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"It's a serious issue," said Mira Acharya, a tourism ministry official, adding that army personnel might be deployed to base camp to monitor teams.
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Most mountaineers, who spend about two months at base camp during a season, will buy their Everest data in bulk and pay around $50/GB.
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A highlight is a private helicopter ride over Gokyo Valley, an alpine valley, landing just above the Mount Everest Base Camp for breakfast and views.
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An airlift took him to Union Glacier base camp, reports the BBC, where he was diagnosed with bacterial peritonitis, an infection of the abdominal lining.
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Four of the climbers went to climb Nanda Devi East and returned to base camp, while the other eight went to climb the unnamed peak.
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"We saw lots of examples of people being short-roped in the icefall and dragged up ... and that is just after base camp," he said.
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Come by National Geographic's Further Base Camp (née Vulcan Gas Company, at 418 E 6th Street) on Tuesday, March 14th at 12:30PM local time.
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Lockheed Martin shared more information about its Mars Base Camp (MBC) architecture and operation plans at this year's International Astronautical Congress, as reported by Space.
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The two mountaineers arrived at their base camp in April and have slowly made their way up and down the mountain acclimatizing to the altitude.
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In addition to cooking and customizing a base camp, players will also be able to tailor their squad's stats using power stones and other items.
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We had the satellite camp on Mount Lico, we had the satellite camp on Mount Socone, and then we had the base camp in between.
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The Deccan Herald's report on the "discovery" from April 9 at Makalu Base Camp in Nepal includes a statement from a senior Indian Army official.
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The relief center will be the first one in Namche Bazaar, the gateway to Everest Base Camp and a destination for REI travelers since 1987.
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"We actually sort of failed to Snap from the top of the world," Richards told Mashable Thursday during a phone interview from Everest base camp.
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"Sherpas associated with the American climber are expected to reach the Base Camp this afternoon," Murari Sharma, managing director of Everest Parivar Treks told CNN.
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A doctoral researcher in tourism studies stationed himself for six weeks at the Everest Base Camp and interviewed everyone who passed through the 'death zone.
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The men spent 13 days hiking up to a base camp and then another 22 days at an altitude around 3 miles above sea level.
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"To the summit," he said, raising a pint at Cafe Danphe Bar, a popular gathering spot here along the trek to Everest's South Base Camp.
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While touring the base camp, Mattis and Nielsen saw the living conditions of the troops and were given a briefing on the camp's laundry service.
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Scaling Everest typically requires a 10-day trek to base camp, six weeks of acclimatizing, and a seven- to nine-day trip to the top.
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Michael grows cranky when, as he is trying to defecate in the outdoors, a counselor upbraids him for moving too far from the base camp.
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To speed their progress, Aufderheide volunteered to return to base camp to help with logistics; making it to the pole had never been his ambition.
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Jerry Pitzl, the navigator, had been at base camp, but now he was flown out to join the ice party and keep them on course.
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It was still unseasonably cold at base camp but the stiff winds had loosened, and for the first time in a week I felt healthy.
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In 9503, Islamist gunmen dressed as policemen stormed the 4,200-metre (13,780-foot) Nanga Parbat base camp, killing 10 foreign climbers and a Pakistani guide.
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According to the British Association of Mountain Guides, the original team of 12 split into two groups after reaching their base camp on May 18.
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Teams are trekking to the base camp to trace the missing climbers, but there is little information thus far about their plans, Mr. Jogdande added.
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The trail the team was taking to the top followed what is known as the Polish Traverse Route through the Vacas Valley to base camp.
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As it was at the bases in those early war zones, electricity at Base Camp Donna is scarce except to power lights and communications gear.
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He took a bus to Jiri, east of Kathmandu, and hiked about 50 or so miles to Everest Base Camp, a process that takes days.
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When we arrived at base camp Bearcat, outside Bien Hoa, northeast of Saigon, we found nothing but a wide-open space, sweltering hot and humid.
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"We'll know more after Mr. Yearwood's Sherpa returns to the base camp," said Murari Sharma, the managing director at Everest Parivar Treks, an expedition company.
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Banff serves as base camp for excursions into nearby Banff National Park with its 2,564 square miles available for adventures ranging from soft to extreme.
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"Base camp looks like a bomb went off," added Dan Richards of Global Rescue, a US-based emergency assistance group assisting in the retrieval effort.
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Help came in the form of a group of woman climbers who had also just summited and were on their way down to base camp.
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"The reason I love mountaineering is that it doesn't matter what you take," Jelle Veyt said as he relaxed in his tent at base camp.
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The event will be held at the Nat Geo Further Base Camp in downtown Austin — also known as the Vulcan Gas Company on 6th Street.
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Chuck Davis, head of intelligence for the militia, posted on Facebook that Hopkins, who he referred to as "the commander," had been arrested at base camp.
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Since the 2016 climbing season opened on Everest, at least 300 people have scaled the peak, according to data from Everest Base Camp as of Saturday.
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A team of Sherpas located Nath's body Friday morning but were unable to carry it to base camp because of weather conditions, Wangchu Sherpa told CNN.
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And on Sunday, 2503-year-old Subash Paul died at Base Camp II from altitude sickness, according to Wangchu Sherpa, managing director of Trekking Camp Nepal.
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Sometimes known as the caretaker of the group, their house has been unofficially declared the squad's base camp, and every hang, however casual, includes craft services.
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Instead of the DMZ, Trump will visit military base Camp Humphreys, which is set 40 miles south of Seoul, to highlight the U.S.-South Korean partnership.
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But in 1909, when Shackleton and his men turned around, they had no one but themselves to count on to get back to their base camp.
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In a recent dispatch from Base Camp, Alan Arnette, an American climbing specialist, said he could not recognize many of the names written across expedition tents.
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Then, in April 2015, a series of earthquakes in the country killed nearly 9,000 people, including at least 18 who were at the mountain's base camp.
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You can kayak and zip line in Costa Rica, hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, make the classic base camp trek at Everest, and more.
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The visit took Mattis near the Texas town of Donna, where U.S. troops have set up a base camp near a border crossing point with Mexico.
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I have very little expectation out of situations so long as there's no bad stuff going on as a base camp, I'm quite happy with that.
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Two to three weeks before expedition teams arrive at base camp to kick off the climbing season, the icefall doctors begin making forays into the glacier.
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Rescuers said Saturday that they had located the bodies of eight climbers near Mount Gurja's base camp, which sits more than 11,000 feet above sea level.
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To ensure proper acclimatization, they spend days hiking to places like Everest Base Camp, where the air is thin and trekkers often experience mild altitude sickness.
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Gimmelwald, the mountain village that served as my base camp — and one of Rick Steves' "great discoveries," according to The Times — is wholly inaccessible by car.
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Last month, when he hiked into base camp at Everest at an altitude of more than 17,000 feet, Mr. Dohring said he was overcome with awe.
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A porter stationed at the base camp in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand said the climbers failed to return on May 26, prompting the search.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Mattis plans to meet with soldiers at Base Camp Donna, the forward operating base built over the last month near the Rio Grande.
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The Maunakea Visitor Information Station, located about two-thirds up the side of the dormant volcano, is base camp for the professional observatories on the summit.
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From Paul Revere's ride to the temperature at Richard Byrd's Antarctic base camp to cookie recipes, every day has a myriad of mathematical possibilities and wonder.
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Roughly 15 miles away, some 500 troops — a medley of medical units, military police officers and engineers — were settled into a routine at Base Camp Donna.
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Unlike Mr. Musk's dreams, Mars Base Camp would not require unproven business plans or novel technologies far beyond what already exists or is already in development.
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But while hundreds of people now reach the summit annually, many more just trek to Base Camp — leaving several tons of garbage and human waste behind.
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"Ours is a strong team and we have confidence that we can do it," he added, before flying in a helicopter to base camp at Everest.
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Several hours later, another member of the team found him not far from the base camp, shivering and numb, and helped him make his way back.
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Wallsé is still his base camp, where at the end of the night you might see him towering over the second-tallest person at the bar.
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On the other hand, when mountaineer sets a climbing record, there's no official waiting at base camp with a cup for the mountaineer to pee in.
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The amount of waste is increasing fast, says Budhi Bahadur Sarkhi, a porter who has been carrying poo from base camp to these pits for 12 years.
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In 2015, 19 people died at Everest base camp when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, and in 2014, an avalanche killed 16 people on the mountain.
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The high point of the visit was a trek from Jomsom (the gateway to Mustang and the high plains north of the Himalayas) to Annapurna Base Camp.
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You split your time between a base camp, where you can train your pokémon or cook up food to attract new friends, and adventuring through the island.
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Hameister got the idea for the epic journey from an Icelandic woman she met when she trekked the Everest Base Camp when she was 12 years old.
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On Twitter, the branch of the Indian Armed Forces said it discovered the tracks near Makalu Base Camp in the Himalayas, next to the Nepal-China border.
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The oxygen level inside her chamber and bed tent can hover as low as 10%, a level similar to the thin mountain air at Everest base camp.
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On Thursday, they were setting up a base camp on an athletic field in Amatrice for the workers assisting those left homeless and now living in tents.
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The official said that 12 members of the American-led military coalition in Iraq of various nationalities were wounded in the attack on the base, Camp Taji.
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The list includes dozens of projects in California, such as electrical upgrades at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton and airfield maintenance at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.
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Goldengruss, the lead guide, told the group they would leave base camp the next day and move to a new camp every other day until summit day.
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Back at the Mercer Hotel, or perhaps more fittingly, base camp Chanel, an army of Chanel-clad employees with American and French accents occupy the downstairs lobby.
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To ensure proper acclimatization on the way to places like Everest Base Camp, which sits more than 17,000 feet above sea level, hikes are spread over days.
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More than 1,000 people, including climbers, high-altitude guides, support staff and government officials, have reached Everest Base Camp since the spring climbing season began in March.
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Officials told the wire service that more than a dozen rockets landed near the base, Camp Taji, and that two Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the attack.
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This follows several past performances by Oakenfold at a number of out-of-the-ordinary locations, including the Great Wall of China and Mount Everest's base camp.
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They recall Silesian dumplings and vodka in base camp and frozen bivouacs at 22,23 feet and fogged brains and hallucinations (they do not use oxygen when climbing).
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It is also one of the most accessible big mountains in the world, bringing hundreds of climbers and thousands to its base camp in a typical season.
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The guys all currently play for the Bakersfield Condors -- the Oilers' minor league team -- and clearly they were all heading back to the base camp for the night.
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Just show up to the Nat Geo Further Base Camp in downtown Austin — also known as the Vulcan Gas Company on 6th Street — and we'll see you there.
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Jogdande said each member of the 12-person team had permits to summit Nanda Devi East, but they divided themselves in two teams at the higher base camp.
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No, the most frightening episode occurred in April 27, when he found himself under attack by a crowd of rock-throwing sherpas at Base Camp II on Everest.
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It&aposs a conservative community that bills itself as the "Base Camp to Adventure," on vast desert landscapes nearby, much of which is controlled by the U.S. government.
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One of the Orion vehicles can be undocked from the base camp and used for short-duration crewed missions to explore the small Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos.
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Some rest at base camp as little at 240 minutes, others an hour before being given a new bib number (to get a new page from the checkpoints).
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Marines test new equipment such as the Multi Utility Tactical Transport (MUTT) in a simulated combat environment at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California on July 8, 2016.
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The abduction of the three Red Cross workers as they were returning to their base camp Saturday may have been in retaliation for this recent wave of arrests.
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That idea is amplified, loudly, by the findings of the second new study, which details the physiological effects of climbing to Everest Base Camp while seven months pregnant.
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DONNA, Texas — It's been unseasonable cold, and wet, at this site of a new U.S. base camp that's now home to several hundred active-duty U.S. Army soldiers.
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Mars Base Camp is more of a suggestion to NASA of what the agency could do rather than a corporate strategy that Lockheed Martin would pursue by itself.
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There was no satellite navigation; messages to and from their base camp were sent in Morse code by Sir Ranulph's wife, Ginny, who was in charge of communications.
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But in Djibouti, Tillerson will be confronted with a larger show of Chinese might: the site of the country's new military base, near the US base Camp Lemonnier.
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In 2003, they succeeded in their goal and launched the first "cyber café" at base camp—a 200 square foot tent populated with a handful of satellite-enabled laptops.
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Those climbing on the south route fly into Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, then fly on to the village of Lukla, where travelers begin hiking to the Everest base camp.
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Across the world and far from sea level is the town of Bragg Creek, near Calgary, which serves as the base camp for all kinds of Rocky Mountain adventures.
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You should be able to find a trip to Union Glacier Base Camp, a private facility that can take a Boeing 747, and run by Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions.
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Getting ready to send 220 people from around the world to three sites (the top of Mount Lico, base camp, and Mount Socone) took an incredible amount of planning.
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He served at the Trawniki SS training and base camp -- really a school for mass murder -- and he trained on live Jews at the adjacent Trawniki Jewish Labor Camp.
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The bed and work chambers can mimic what oxygen levels are like at Everest base camp, in the thin air that is only about 11% oxygen, 17,000 feet high.
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Srna, accompanied by coach Ante Cacic, went to his father's funeral on Monday and returned to the team's Deauville base camp in northern France ready to face the Czechs.
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Then in 2000, a 2700 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, triggering a massive avalanche at base camp that left 225 dead (including ten Sherpa) and more than 22010 others injured.
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Porters and yaks ferry garbage on their backs from a string of villages leading up to base camp, which takes about a week to reach by foot from Lukla.
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That thickness is critical as the researchers will set up heavy equipment next to the ship, which will act as a base camp for scientific observations over the year.
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Under cover of darkness, he slipped onto the heavily guarded Albanian coast by boat and set up a base camp in a cave in the cliffs overlooking the Adriatic.
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The following year a massive earthquake triggered another avalanche that killed 18 people at Everest base camp and forced Khumalo and hundreds of other climbers to abandon their bid.
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Mount Annapurna, in northwest Nepal, is the world's tenth highest mountain at 8,2003 meters (26,545 feet) and its base camp is popular with thousands of trekkers who visit annually.
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The temperature fell below minus-20 degrees Fahrenheit in much of the Midwest yesterday, colder than Siberia, Mount Everest's base camp and parts of Antarctica have been this week.
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We have been warned that altitude sickness can hit like a brick, and even though we are only going to base camp, that's still at 5,500 meters or 17,500 feet.
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Back at base camp, he was sitting in his tent about to message Kristyn when the tent manager came in and told him that Robin had died on the mountain.
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But when Ballinger, who previously summited Everest six times (with oxygen,) neared 2000,183 feet above sea level, he was advised to head back to base camp due to poor health.
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The This Is Us star, 35, spent more than a week trekking through the Nepal terrain to reach Everest Base Camp on Sunday, which sits at a whopping 17,700 ft.
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Indian national Subash Paul died at Base Camp II -- at an elevation of about 24,600 feet -- Sunday from altitude sickness, according to Wangchu Sherpa, Managing Director of Trekking Camp Nepal.
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To match its cube-heavy, Minecraft-style aesthetic, Pokémon Quest will take place on Tumblecube Island, where players will explore, battle, and set up a base camp via touch controls.
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Only if "any evidence is found" that the climbers may have survived will the rescue mission by foot, currently at the base camp, proceed toward the direction identified by air.
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I also wore them on all but the final days of the Everest base camp trek, when snow and ice finally convinced me to switch to warmer and waterproof boots.
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At dawn, he and a comrade would drive 300 miles southwest to the mined, militarized border between Eritrea and Ethiopia to rendezvous with intelligence sources at a rebel base camp.
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Black Ops will also open a new remote base camp in the mountains outside of Valdez with three heated tents for seven-night trips (from $503,400 a person, all-inclusive).
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If you're pushing for the mountain summit of Denali or the Eiger, then it's probably best to leave the Mr. Steak 1-Burner Infrared Portable Grill back at base camp.
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Every day was a little bit different but I would progressively try to move up on the mountain, starting at base camp and going to Camp 1, 2, and higher.
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Ms. Curley was standing in line for lunch on a recent afternoon at the Base Camp Cafe, the russet-colored cafeteria at the entrance to the Cincinnati Zoo's Africa exhibit.
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Mr. Karim, whose company provided ground services for the climbers, said that the team, known as the Pakistan-Italian Friendship Expedition, had set out from base camp on June 5.
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It's a place where guests can attend a session on resilience at a mountain base camp, preceded by Yo-Yo Ma himself playing Bach's Suite No. 250 in C Major.
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The climber, Ryan Sean Davy, 43, was apprehended by a tourism official near the Everest Base Camp earlier this month and sent to Kathmandu, where he was arrested on Tuesday.
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The cause of Mr. Sherchan's death was not immediately clear, but Gyanendra Shrestha, a government mountaineering official at the Everest base camp, said it might have been a heart attack.
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He joined a team of Afghan journalists who made radio and television news broadcasts for the US Special Forces, which were transmitted out of the legendary CIA base Camp Chapman.
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Previously, the United States led efforts to try to resolve the ongoing violence and to deal with the extremists using Syria as a base camp for operations around the world.
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The city of Ogden, emerging as a destination on its own, serves as a convenient base camp for visiting Snowbasin and Powder Mountain, each about a half-hour drive away.
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At least 19 climbers were killed when huge blocks of ice buried their tents at the base camp of the 8,850-metre (29,035 feet) Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain.
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Ms. Hillary signed on for an expedition with Eagles Cry Adventures, an outfitter, and was deposited by helicopter at a Norwegian base camp about 10103 miles from the North Pole.
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The climbers, along with staff members and Sherpa guides, would spend nearly two weeks hiking to the Everest base camp, which sits at an altitude of around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters).
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It took the climbers weeks to acclimatize, or let their bodies adjust to the extreme conditions of the mountain, and a runner transported the news of their summit to Base Camp.
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This is fun for folks looking to escape their nine to five grind to Everest Base Camp, but it becomes incredibly valuable for others with amputations that suffer from phantom pain.
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She said she would make a joint bid in May with Nima Doma Sherpa, wife of one of the 16 sherpas killed in an avalanche near the base camp in 2014.
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It also ensures that in the event that one of the Orion vehicles malfunctions, the crew of Mars Base Camp will still have a way to get back home to Earth.
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By the end, it felt like I had found another tribe, nearly a decade after I had driven through the gates of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune for the last time.
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So much so that at Camp Three of her first ascent, 216,221 feet (235,20113 meters) above sea level, her Sherpa raised the idea of a second ascent from Everest Base Camp.
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Flanked by plainclothes police officers and supporters from the online forum, Bindu Ammini and Kanakadurga returned to a base camp near the temple site early in the morning on January 2.
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Base camp for the second attempt was at a place called Ward Hunt Island, a former Canadian research center 425 miles from the pole that they reached by twin-prop plane.
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The Mercatus Center, which MacLean describes as "the base camp" of Koch's cause at George Mason, is now headed by Tyler Cowen, a well-known blogger and New York Times contributor.
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Much like Lockheed Martin's Mars Base Camp design or SpaceX's Mars colony concept, the EPFL habitat aims to anticipate the best procedures to establish a long-term human presence on Mars.
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During the descent, the climbers came upon a Chinese climber in "critical condition" and helped him descend to Base Camp 4, the final jump off point for climbers before the summit.
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This job was traditionally a role for men in the community, and it became convention that women were not allowed to trek past base camp (just below 1,000 meters), Venu added.
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Once sufficient funds were raised, Askari Aviation took the four mountaineers to Nanga Parbat's base camp on Friday at the request of the Polish Embassy in Islamabad, according to Mr. Amir.
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"We have activated resources to trace the climbers after they failed to return to the base camp, but bad weather is hindering the operation," said Vijay Kumar Jogdande, a local magistrate.
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Government officers sent to Everest base camp often come down with altitude sickness and desert their posts, the Sherpas said, leaving the expedition companies to monitor the flow of traffic themselves.
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Living conditions at Base Camp Donna are spare, but since its construction this month, the Army has added showers and a larger living area aside from the initial allotment of tents.
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Geoff and I arrived back at our Nui Dat base camp on July 15, and we were greeted with the news that a troop barbecue would be held the following night.
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"He was walking down to the Everest Base Camp, and I was suspicious of him as he was walking with all his mountaineering dress even below all the tents," he said.
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On May 8, he wrote a Facebook post apologizing for what he had done, saying when he arrived at base camp, it became clear he lacked the funds for a permit.
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Tilak Ram Pandey, a government liaison officer for Mr. Sherchan's team who was near the base camp, said Mr. Sherchan's body would be taken to Kathmandu for an autopsy on Sunday.
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Long nights in a makeshift headquarters at Trump Tower have been replaced with flexible hours from the campaign's top-dollar Virginia base camp — or from home, depending on individual staffers' needs.
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On one of his numerous later visits, he said he had spent more than two weeks alone in a tent after a fire destroyed his base camp and killed several colleagues.
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During a recent visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton for exercise Iron Fist, Insider had the opportunity to observe and learn how 60 mm mortar teams get rounds down range.
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The only hope of evacuation was a Twin Otter airplane stationed at the Patriot Hills base camp in Antarctica more than a thousand miles away by the end of his trip.
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Walter B. Jones Jr., a Republican congressman from North Carolina whose district included Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, was a staunch supporter of the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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We're told the main house used in "The Bachelor" survived the fire ... but a 4,000 square foot structure on the property used as a base camp for show producers was torched.
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"They are expected to reach the base camp on Friday," said Doma, who like most Sherpa goes by her first name, after a telephone conversation with the widows' team on the mountain.
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This plan—known as Mars Base Camp—is the brainchild of the defense contractor Lockheed Martin and was detailed to an audience about a third the size of Musk's on Wednesday evening.
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In fact, none of the technology used for the Mars Base Camp would need to be developed specifically for the mission—most of it has already been used by NASA for decades.
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The Mars Base Camp mission would begin by assembling the components of the space station (which will mostly consist of two Orion vehicles, a crew habitat, and a laboratory) in cislunar space.
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They stopped at various towns along their 10-day trek along the Mount Everest Base Camp Trek, visiting with monks and locals before reaching the spots where they took the wedding photos.
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Donna, a town of nearly 17,000 with a median household income of $30,000, was where Army soldiers set up a base camp last year during Mr. Trump's troop deployment to the border.
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Initially, we'd planned to go through the Annapurna Base Camp (ABC), but a week before we were due to start, there was an avalanche and the roads had to be closed off.
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Marines with Deployment Processing Command, Reserve Support Unit-East (DPC/RSU) and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted gas chamber training November 8, 2019, on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
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The amendment would also add $2.3 billion for disaster recovery efforts at Offutt Air Force Base, Tyndall Air Force Base, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.
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Starting with a base camp just south of San Antonio called Somi Se'k, the tribe established Camp Toyahvale in far West Texas, where intensive fracking had caused sacred springs to run dry.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — An octogenarian Nepalese mountaineer who was on a mission to reclaim his title as the oldest climber on Mount Everest died on Saturday afternoon at base camp, government officials said.
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Once we had arrived at the other side, we made our way across a rock-strewn field to get to our base camp, elevation twelve thousand six hundred and thirty-one feet.
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Insider recently had the chance to observe Marines and their Japanese partners going through assault climbing training at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California during the latest iteration of Iron Fist.
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Linville's plans to climb Everest in 2014 and 2015 were hampered by a huge avalanche above base camp that killed 16 Sherpa guides, and the devastating earthquake that hit Nepal last year.
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Each Pokemon can be powered up and used in formations while back at base camp you can do some crafting, create new items, which in turn attract new Pokemon for you to collect.
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Manufactured by the now defunct Huntley & Palmers biscuit company, the fruitcake was discovered in a long-abandoned hut at Cape Adare—an important landing site and base camp used by early Antarctic explorers.
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For the first time in Marine Corps history, a group of 40 female Marines will begin a fully integrated combat training course alongside male students at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.
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Last year, an earthquake that killed 240,22014 people across Nepal sent a massive snowslide crashing into Base Camp, killing at least 18 climbers and guides and putting an end to that year's campaign.
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And still in the midst of it every night I feel like I'm at base camp at Mount Everest looking up, knowing that I have to summit by the end of the evening.
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He cited concerns about Djibouti's mounting debt burden to China and China's potential to take over a strategically located port, along with its establishment of a military base near U.S. base Camp Lemonnier.
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The South Asian neighbors have been at loggerheads since September 18, when four gunmen killed 18 Indian soldiers in an army base camp in Uri, a town in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
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"For the first time, an #IndianArmy Moutaineering Expedition Team has sited [sic] Mysterious Footprints of mythical beast 'Yeti' measuring 32x15 inches close to Makalu Base Camp on 09 April 2019," the caption read.
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Once the crewed spacecraft has made it to Mars it will rendezvous and dock with the lab, and the base camp will be ready to host the astronauts for their stay in orbit.
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And so while Apple TV+ at least has a solid base camp from which to make the uphill climb to compete with Netflix, Facebook Watch feels like it's tripping over its own feet.
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He tried again in 2015, the first attempt by anyone after a devastating April 25 earthquake killed 19000 people and injured 61 at the mountain's base camp, the deadliest accident in Everest's history.
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In a series of vignettes, participants go from base camp to summit, then unlock a "god mode" that shrinks the Himalayas to the size of anthills and gives the whole climb some context.
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It would also provide money to rebuild military bases — Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point — in North Carolina, the home state of two GOP senators, including Sen.
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"They want to do things and go places that no one else has gone, to earn bragging rights for dinner party conversation, such as taking a helicopter to Everest Base Camp," she says.
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Chambers says his team plans to use cryogenic hydrogen as fuel because of the "water-based economy" they anticipate on Mars, where water can power both the orbital base camp and the lander.
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She is also busy with other projects: Melanin Base Camp, through funding from a Kickstarter campaign, is finishing a short film called "Titan Project" about Sabrina Chapman, a black climber who is Canadian.
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Four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian were set to climb the 25,675-foot Nanda Devi East peak — near the border with China — and return to their base camp last weekend.
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At the same time, the insurgents launched a separate attack on an American Marine base, Camp Nolay in Sangin District, 40 miles away, as an apparent diversion, although the Marines quickly repelled it.
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Hundreds of journalists had been monitoring the rescue attempt from a base camp by the cave, and the number grew significantly after the boys and their coach were found safe on Monday night.
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During a recent visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Insider observed the US Marine Corps 1st Combat Engineer Battalion and members of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force conduct urban breaching training.
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At the moment, there is no shortage of any of these items and they are being distributed to people that need them, a fact that may be verified in shelters and base camp.
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And, then you have to subtract the amount he's spending to create a base camp at 1,800 feet – there's a village featuring bands, bonfires, inspirational speakers, food trucks, sports drinks and adult beverages.
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Protestors gathered at a base camp Tuesday 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the temple and systematically checked state buses entering into the area to ensure that women were not making their way in.
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By late afternoon, however, the force appeared insufficient as thousands more violent protestors flocked to the base camp, assaulting the police and damaging their vehicles, causing security forces to respond with baton charges.
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The site serves as a base camp for No More Deaths; the group's volunteers congregate there, store provisions in its shed and set out from there to search the desert for migrants' remains.
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Pemba Dorje climbed from Everest's South Base Camp to summit with supplemental oxygen in eight hours and ten minutes, while Kazi Sherpa completed the feat without supplemental oxygen in 20 hours and 24 minutes.
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Its state-run regulator, Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA), announced on Wednesday that it plans to set up free W-Fi zones along the Everest base camp, a hugely popular destination for trekkers and mountaineers.
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A lot of us separate and go do our own thing when it comes to going to the shows, but being able to come back to a base camp like this is really supportive.
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He made it to the base camp just as his partner had burned his clothes and was ready to give up and leave; and if he had, Joe probably would have starved to death.
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" An official from a non-government organization added: "We have noticed that the ice level at and around the base camp has been going down, and that is why the bodies are becoming exposed.
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They set up three camps: a base camp, a satellite camp atop Lico, and another camp at nearby Mount Socone, where, in recent years, farmers have been clearing the rainforest at an alarming rate.
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Although the Mars Base Camp crew will never descend to the Martian surface during their stay, there will be no shortage of scientific activities for them to do during their one year in orbit.
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Police official Bir Bahadur Budhamagar said villagers who reached the site at the base camp of Mount Gurja, a 7,913 metre-high peak (23,600 feet), on Saturday spotted seven bodies in the mountain slopes.
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As we arrived at base camp, ahead of starting our seven-day journey on the Rongai Route, a team of about eighty accomplished mountaineers, guides, porters, cooks and various other support staff greeted us.
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This new series follows Jeff Evans and his Alpine Rescue Service — skilled Sherpas and helicopter pilots — as they patrol Mount Everest from its base camp to its balcony, about 1,300 feet below its peak.
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This is a guy who guided people to Everest Base Camp once upon a time and in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy ran up twelve flights to deliver food to people who were stranded.
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This feeling was reinforced during many of the larger presentations, particularly Elon Musk's keynote speech and Lockheed Martin's presentation on Mars Base Camp, both of which felt like a big sales pitch to NASA.
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On Wednesday morning, we drove roughly 50 miles along Highway 20, from the firefighters' base camp in Ukiah to the town of Clearlake Oaks, while the region was still under a mandatory evacuation order.
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REI Co-op Kingdom 303 Tent, $230 (originally $290) [You save $230]REI Co-op&aposs Base Camp tents aren&apost the lightest, but they&aposre built well and much more affordable than others.
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The 48-year-old reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit via the Southeast Ridge route, accompanied by 13 other climbers including his clients, Tourism Department official Gyanendra Shrestha said from the base camp.
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"I wanted first to do the trek to the Annapurna base camp but decided not to go after the accident that happened recently because I find it too dangerous," he told Reuters via email.
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The 30-ton Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicles are the "the number one vehicle" to perform the amphibious assault mission, a Marine told Insider during a recent visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
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"No other party is offering what we are in terms of transparency," she told Reuters at PSI's headquarters - referred to by party staff as "base camp" - where a wall poster urges "Make Art, Not War".
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Even more striking, the team of scientists retook the biological measurements of both groups after they'd spent two months at Everest Base Camp and found the energy levels in the muscles of the lowlanders dropped.
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For Monday's study, a research team led by scientists at the University of Cambridge followed 15 Sherpas and 10 "lowlanders" — researchers living in non-high altitude areas — as they gradually ascended to the base camp.
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The reason for this is to test the capabilities of the second vehicle, which will be serving as a support vehicle and a radio relay for communications from the first vehicle back to base camp.
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The Tibetan base camp accumulated over 8 tons of waste, including human feces and mountaineering equipment, thanks in part to the flow of tourists who could reach the Tibeten side of the mountain by car.
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An avalanche in 2014 killed 16 Nepalese on the mountain, and a series of earthquakes last year killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal, including at least 18 at the South Base Camp below the peak.
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"They suggested that we say I was sick, like with food poisoning or an illness, so then my insurance would cover a helicopter," said Ms. Gersh, 42, who had finished a trek to Base Camp.
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Last month, trauma surgeon Martin Griffiths told the BBC some of his colleagues had likened the Royal London Hospital in east London where he works to the former British military base Camp Bastion in Afghanistan.
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On May 10, just nine days after his 44th birthday, he was relaxing at base camp when news arrived via radio that Rob Hall and Scott Fischer's teams had encountered serious trouble coming down the mountain.
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"The bitter feeling of that loss can only be compensated by winning the European Championship," the 30-year-old center back told a news conference in the team's Deauville base camp in northern France on Friday.
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The prints allegedly measured 32 inches by 15 inches (81 centimeters by 3503 centimeters) and were spotted on April 9 close to Makalu Base Camp, an isolated mountainous area between Nepal and Tibet, the tweet elaborated.
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In 2002, when Bassis was conducting his PhD research in a different region of Antarctica, he was shocked to return to his base camp and learn that the Larsen B ice shelf had vanished practically overnight.
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Once this subsurface base camp is established, the AUV Leng sinks to the bottom of Europa's ocean to record what it sees there, before returning to the shuttle to share its findings, and recharge its batteries.
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"In the moment, it can actually be quite difficult to take your mittens off and ... use your phone," Richards told "Squawk Box, " during a phone interview from an advanced base camp at more than 21,20143 feet.
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The 25-year-old had been working to fix a route about 150 meters below the summit when he fell, according to Mingma Sherpa, the Nepal rescue team leader who was at the Everest Base Camp.
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The 25-year-old had been working to fix a route about 150 meters near the summit when he fell, according to Mingma Sherpa, the Nepal rescue team leader who was at the Everest Base Camp.
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On Thursday, crew member Phurba Sherpa fell to his death while working to fix a route about 150 meters below the summit, according to Mingma Sherpa, a Nepal rescue team leader at the Everest Base Camp.
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Lockheed Martin Corp announced separate plans for a manned Mars journey on Friday, unveiling concept drawings of a "base camp" space station orbiting Mars and landing craft that would carry four astronauts to the planet's surface.
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Ultimately the Mars Base Camp proposal is far more conservative than SpaceX's plans to start human colonies on the Martian surface, and as a result more likely to succeed—at least within a 12 year timeframe.
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"But we will do what is necessary, within the framework of the law, against those who act as agents and threaten my country from Qandil," Erdogan said, referring to a PKK base camp in northern Iraq.
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Credit: Roberto Schmidt Roberto Schmidt took this photo of a cloud of snow and debris triggered by an earthquake flying towards Everest Base Camp, just moments before it flattened parts of the camp in the Himalayas.
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At Everest Base Camp, she clutches three flags in her cold, stiff hands, all honoring her African heritage: Rwanda, where her parents are from; Zambia, where she was born; and South Africa, where she lives today.
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Whether it was a sniper at 200 yards, a rocket fired into a base camp or an attack from a well-concealed bunker complex, the element of surprise was usually on the side of our enemies.
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The eight climbers - four from Britain, two from the United States, and one each from Australia and India - were reported missing on May 31 after they failed to return to their base camp near Nanda Devi.
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As Matthews and other members of his expedition began climbing out of base camp that April, some found that their equipment, some of which was secondhand, was leaking or dispensing no oxygen, according to court documents.
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Moran and his companions did not return to their base camp on May 29 as planned, with five bodies being spotted by a helicopter on June 3, at a height of about 5,000 m (16,404 ft).
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Officials at two Marine Corps bases — the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River — ask anyone who spots an alligator and believes it to be a safety concern to call wildlife officials.
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Kelly said that the nonprofit and officials do a good job at keeping the mountain clean up to South Base Camp, a popular campsite destination for climbers and tourists, but issues arise the farther up one goes.
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The 25-year-old had been working to fix a route about 150 meters near the summit when he fell Thursday, according to Mingma Sherpa, the Nepal rescue team leader who was at the Everest Base Camp.
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As part of National Geographic's Further Base Camp, the company has taken over the Vulcan Gas Company in downtown Austin (418 E 6th Street, to be exact) and invited us to do a couple shows on stage.
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Climbers who reach the 8,850-metre (29,035-feet) Everest summit must produce photographs showing them at the top as proof of their ascent, as well as a report from their liaison official who stays at base camp.
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That morning, a team of rescuers headed towards the Nanda Devi East base camp, while conditions remained "too harsh" for a helicopter to fly through the mountains until Sunday, June 2, the group wrote on their website.
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The only way to rise above the 1-percenters (the trailing candidates in the polls, not the wealthy targets of Warren's oratory) is to climb out of the crowded base camp one agonizing step at a time.
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Ms. Revol continued down the mountain alone and called for help from a satellite phone, and she was eventually met by two members of a four-person rescue team flown to the mountain's base camp on Saturday.
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Weakened by the vomiting and the exposure to the elements, and unable to sleep because of the altitude, which made getting enough oxygen difficult, Isabella was not sure she would even be able to leave base camp.
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Covering the story required being embedded with the Everest team, climbing 17,900 feet to base camp for word from the summit, and then, thrillingly, sending a coded telegram via runner to announce the news to the world.
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Speaking by telephone from base camp, Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism, said Mr. Kuriki's body would be airlifted to Kathmandu, the capital, for an autopsy to ascertain the exact cause of death.
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PHOENIX — The Border Patrol raided a humanitarian aid group's base camp in the Southern Arizona desert on Thursday and arrested four men who had crossed into the United States illegally, officials with Customs and Border Protection said.
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Marines with the Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch, Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity, tested the ACV&aposs maneuverability and performance during low-light and night operations on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton&aposs beaches, December 16-18.
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Ang Tshering Sherpa, chief of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, who is in touch with climbers at Base Camp, said in Kathmandu that, weather permitting, the route from the South Col to the summit would be fixed on Wednesday.
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Krzysztof Wielicki, a small and wiry 67-year-old who will run the 143-person expedition from its base camp, was the first to scale the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, in the winter, nearly four decades ago.
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And finally arriving to base camp tired, beat up, cold, lacking oxygen, was really difficult to just sit down and stare and take it all in, but with all the mountains surrounding the area, it's just so beautiful.
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In late November, Dutch couple Liesbeth and Edwin ter Velde were preparing to set out on a 3,000-mile roadless trip across the world's most treacherous landscape, from Union Glacier base camp to the South Pole and back.
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All are on the same page, and all bring a unified and mature vision of Western conservatism to their effort; they form the base camp of a new party perhaps within the waning tradition of the Republican Party.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — When Geoffrey Chang, an Australian trekker heading to Mount Everest Base Camp, woke up with chest pain, his Nepali guide pushed immediately for a medical evacuation, saying he had a serious case of acute mountain sickness.
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While these are one-time bookings, the permanent possibilities on the Book It List include a man-made cave in New Mexico, a treehouse in Ohio, a base camp in Alaska and a shrimp boat in South Carolina.
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Here at Base Camp Donna, 10 miles east of McAllen, Army engineers have built facilities to accommodate a long-term deployment: It now has hot showers, laundry facilities, and a kitchen to produce two hot meals a day.
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We would establish a base camp that could be defended by a third of our company, and the rest would be on patrols or, if it was rice harvest season, provide security for the farmers in the villages.
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Cover: Marines from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton walk onto the field during a pregame ceremony before the San Diego Padres take on the Kansas City Royals in a baseball game Sunday, June 11, 2017, in San Diego.
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Jelle Veyt, a Belgian climber who was at base camp last year as a member of the Asian Trekking expedition, recalled how after the quake took out most of Nepal's telecommunications infrastructure, he was still able to stay connected.
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The eight climbers - four from Britain, two from the United States, and one each from Australia and India - were reported missing last Friday after they failed to return to their base camp near Nanda Devi, India's second highest mountain.
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While Kim could decide to stay the night, or maybe even two, he might also be in a hurry to get back home, in which case the North wouldn&apost need a room so much as a base camp.
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Members of their expedition teams reported a Japanese climber died Monday and a Macedonian died on Sunday, said Gyanendra Shrestha, who is stationed at Everest&aposs base camp during the climbing season and received the reports of the deaths.
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Chris Millbern, a member of the mapping team from the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mt. Everest, operates a drone as he works to complete the most detailed photogrammetry data collection at Everest Base Camp.
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The team had spent about two months in base camp, getting ready to make the first ascent the mountain on the Pakistan-China border during the months when temperatures there regularly fall as low as -55 Celsius (-67 Fahrenheit).
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On Saturday, after backing was gathered all the way to the Marines' top officer, the terminally ill boy received the rare title of honorary Marine in a quickly assembled ceremony at the Marine Corps Base Camp in Pendleton, Calif.
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India: Rescuers have been looking for eight climbers — four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and an Indian — on the country's second-highest mountain, the Nanda Devi East, after they failed to report back to base camp on May 26.
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The company has set up a base camp with 23.5 employees in the area of the Camp Fire, she said, a figure that is expected to grow to 3.5,000 by the end of the week and could reach 3,000.
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As the race entered its final stages, several top officials and bid staff members relocated to London, deeming it a better base camp from which to visit far-flung federations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and southern Africa.
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It was in Iraq, for example, at the former U.S. military base Camp Liberty, that approximately 3,000 members of the principal opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) were stranded for four years while awaiting relocation to friendly territory in Europe.
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"I would caution that we are still not completely safe – still not at base camp – but if we look carefully we can see it in the distance," National Treasury Management Agency chief executive Conor O'Kelly said in a speech.
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"I would caution that we are still not completely safe – still not at base camp – but if we look carefully we can see it in the distance," National Treasury Management Agency chief executive Conor O'Kelly said in a speech.
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It could potentially dampen the mood for the Himalayan nation's tourism industry, yet to recover from a devastating earthquake which killed nearly 9,000 people in 2015 including 18 climbers and their guides at the base camp of Mount Everest.
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"As we enter this campaign it's clear that Labour have an electoral mountain top climb, and its leadership appears to have left its ropes and crampons at base camp," said Martin Boon, director of ICM Research, in a statement.
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India: Rescuers have been looking for eight climbers — two Americans, four Britons, an Australian and an Indian — on the country's second-highest mountain, the Nanda Devi East , after they failed to report back to base camp on May 26.
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Even though Trueman was at base camp as a private climber, he was asked to put his army experience to use by coordinating rescue efforts from Camp II, the second of four rest camps that dot the route to Everest's summit.
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"Not to take away from our journey but I felt compelled to explain the difference between our trekking trip to Everest Base Camp vs the experienced and professional mountaineers and alpinists who are CLIMBING Everest," she wrote on Instagram on Friday.
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"Not to take away from our journey but I felt compelled to explain the difference between our trekking trip to Everest Base Camp vs the experienced and professional mountaineers and alpinists who are CLIMBING Everest," she wrote in another post.
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On Tuesday morning, a team of climate scientists were busy setting up a mock Arctic base camp at the Swiss resort that is hosting politicians, celebrities, and the global economic elite for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this week.
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Unlike SpaceX, which must develop all of its technology from scratch (a highly labor and resource intensive task), all of the Mars Base Camp tech is tried and true, having been successfully deployed on multiple NASA missions over the years.
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On the South Col, the route that Jamsenpa has taken on all five of her ascents, Base Camp is located at 17,217 feet (2600,24 meters), and there are a further five camps until climbers make their bid for the top.
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In the pantheon of bohemian authors to whom the bar owes its reputation, though, none stand so tall as the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who on his visits to New York regarded the place as a kind of base camp.
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On Thursday, the team's training session at its base camp here, in southeastern France near the Swiss border, was attended by more than 19983 members of the news media; before its first game, there were only a dozen or so.
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A murmur erupted from the sweat-slicked crowd perched on top of the Range 409A observation point as 4th Tank Battalion's M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank fired another dead-center hit during TIGERCOMP August 29 aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.
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But the group, led by the British climber Martin Moran, who has successfully climbed the world's 23rd-highest peak several times in the past, failed to report back to the Munsiyari base camp after starting the ascent on May 13.
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Base camp is Friday Harbor, a town whose timeworn bakeries, bookshops and vistas of the Salish Sea, a network of waterways that runs from Puget Sound in Washington to the Strait of Georgia in Canada, induce a laid-back island reverie.
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Insider recently had the chance to observe Marines and their Japanese partners going through assault climbing training at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California during the latest iteration of Iron Fist, a large, month-long amphibious assault training exercise.
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The US base, Camp Lemonnier, is home to an estimated 25,230 personnel, including various special forces troops, and is used as a staging point for US military and counter-terrorism operations throughout Africa, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean.
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The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps suspended the rescue operation and launched a recovery effort instead, the Marine base Camp Butler in Japan said in a statement, essentially confirming the military does not expect to find the missing Marines alive.
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Standing more than 18 feet (5.5 m) high, the attraction is part of a new experience that comes complete with a bamboo jungle and base camp replica of Skull Island from the soon-to-be-released film "Kong: Skull Island".
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In 2018, 28,0003 pounds of human waste was hauled from Everest base camp during the climbing season, according to a local NGO tasked with cleaning up Everest, and dumped in open pits where it risks entering the water supply system.
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This series follows fearless helicopter pilots — among them, Jason Laing of New Zealand, Ryan Skorecki of the United States and Lorenz Hufer of Switzerland — as they patrol Mount Everest (elevation: 29,029 feet) from base camp to balcony in special machines.
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During a visit to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Insider observed a mortar crew firing off multiple rounds using an M224 60 mm light mortar, which is a high-angle-of-fire weapon that can be drop- or trigger-fired.
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Now the castle, just a 15-minute drive from St Andrews, can be rented out by groups of up to 13 people and makes the perfect base camp from which to set off and explore some more of Scotland's legends.
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Eight climbers - four from Britain, two from the United States, and one each from Australia and India - went missing on May 31 after they failed to return to their base camp near the 7,816 meter (25,643 feet) mountain, Nanda Devi.
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It spent two years raising funds and building, and in 2014, Everest Link succeeded in making wireless internet available all the way from Lukla, the village most Everest climbers fly into at the start of the climbing season, to Everest base camp.
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On any given day at base camp, you're liable to see half a dozen or more helicopters come roaring up the Khumbu valley, loop around the camp, and gently touch down on one of the two rocky helipads set up in the camp.
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The intended Wi-Fi zones will not only improve communication during natural disasters and accidents, which the base camp is quite prone to, but will also boost tourism as travelers and trekkers can share their experiences with family and friends almost instantaneously.
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Huawei and China Mobile, which had brought 19963G LTE coverage to the Tibetan base camp in 2013, was also not an option to climbers since cell signals from Nepal were blocked from the Chinese mobile station by the tallest mountain in the world.
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In Northern California this month, more than 5,000 firefighters and support staff gathered to fight the Kincade fire, turning the Sonoma County fairgrounds into base camp, a sea of white tents and dirt-smudged firefighters taking breaks from their 24-hour shifts.
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Vibe Tribe Adventures is not the only group looking to get more people of color involved in outdoor activities—Melanin Base Camp, Latino Outdoors, Brothers of Climbing and Brown Girls Climb are all groups looking to make the outdoors accessible to everyone.
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One year later, the pair set out on a second attempt – only to be thwarted this time by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 8,000 and caused a massive avalanche that killed 19 climbers and Sherpas at Everest Base Camp.
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A unmanned vehicle, part of the Multi-Utility Tactical Transport (MUTT) family of systems, operates on Red Beach during the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation (S2ME2) Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) 2017 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. (U.
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Our team was scheduled to set off from base camp at first light for an acclimatization climb through the Khumbu Icefall, but we were still recovering from a dhal bhat-induced gastrointestinal disaster of the variety that makes you miss your mom.
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BASE CAMP DONNA, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis defended the deployment of thousands of troops to the border with Mexico as he traveled there on Wednesday, saying the mission was "absolutely legal" and justified, and that it was improving military readiness.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Search team leader Alex Gavan wept uncontrollably after a helicopter dropped him at a Himalayan base camp on June 3003, certain an avalanche had killed the two men he was searching for as they tried to conquer Pakistan's "Killer Mountain".
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Based on a forecast analysis by liaison officials at the Everest Base Camp, 122 climbers were scheduled to summit Everest on May 21, 297 on May 22 and 172 on May 23 — the three days when the weather would be most conducive.
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Notable properties in the hands of local councils include places like Moab Base Camp, next to the famous red rock formations in Utah; the Curtis S. Read Reservation in the Adirondacks; and the Owasippe Scout Reservation, covering some 4,800 acres in western Michigan.
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Andro Besic, a 60-something New Zealander I met at the Antarctica marathon, competes in only the most exotic races — from the Polar Circle in Greenland to the Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon in Nepal, a run down from the Everest base camp.
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In statements late Wednesday, Burr and Tillis cited a pair of major chemical safety problems in North Carolina — water contamination at the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and the recent discovery of the as-yet-unregulated chemical GenX in the Cape Fear River.
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Vibe Tribe Adventures is not the only group looking to get more people of color involved in outdoor activities—Melanin Base Camp, Latino Outdoors, Brothers of Climbing and Brown Girls Climb are all groups looking to make the outdoors accessible to everyone.
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Others in the group, who had turned back earlier, told officials late on Friday that their fellow climbers had not returned to base camp as planned, Sanjay Gunjiyal, the inspector general of police at the Uttarakhand State Disaster Response Force, told Reuters.
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We know that our dedicated military, composed of volunteers, remains willing to risk their lives to protect ours so that, for example, our rallies within America will not be ended suddenly by a suicide bomber trained at a terrorist base camp overseas.
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He muscled his way back down the ice-and-snow-covered mountain to base camp as quickly as his worn-out legs could carry him, then took a helicopter to Kathmandu, where he hopped a commercial jet for a 30-hour flight to Anchorage, Alaska.
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Cpl. Suzette Clemans, a military-working-dog handler with 1st Law Enforcement Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force, and Denny, her Belgian Malinois patrol explosive-detection dog, prepare to search for explosives on the beach aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California on October 21.
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There are plenty of other great shows going on at Further Base Camp, but here are the ones we're most excited about (all times local): And if you do have a SXSW, check out this panel on immersive horror featuring our own Bryan Bishop!
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali climbers have retrieved four bodies and collected some 11 tonnes of decades-old garbage from Mount Everest and its approach below the base camp as part of a drive to clean up the world's highest mountain, the government said on Wednesday.
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A clean-up team of 20 sherpa climbers collected five tonnes of litter in April and May from different camps sites above the base camp and another six tonnes from the areas below, said Dandu Raj Ghimire, director general of the Department of Tourism.
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Besides acting as the base camp for the Night's Watch army, the Fist of the First Men is also where an important battle takes place in the "Game of Thrones" series — a fight against winter zombies and White Walkers, the first in thousands of years.
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Four members from a team of Polish climbers attempting the first winter ascent of nearby K2000, the world's second highest mountain, will assist in the rescue operation after a Pakistan Army helicopter picks them up from their base camp and flies them to Nanga Parbat.
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According to a filing, the military bases include Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler in Okinanawa, Japan; the Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the island of Oahu; the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma in Arizona; and the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Japan.
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Mars Base Camp, which seeks to put a crewed space station in orbit around Mars by 2028, was first announced by Lockheed Martin last May, but this year's Astronautical Congress got an in-depth look at just how the company plans to make it happen.
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Although Lockheed's Mars Base Camp is less ambitious than SpaceX's plans insofar as it won't be sending humans to the surface, it will give humans time to map Mars and figure out the best place for people to land when the time is right.
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Wielicki, who had planned to direct the bid from base camp, said heavy snowfall in the upper parts of the 8,611-metre (28,251-ft) peak had covered ropes left earlier by the climbers, and damaged the first camp and most likely the other three.
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He encounters the aforementioned thugs, some very hungry dogs, very little water, and is nearly on the brink of death when he's saved by Luciana and two of her compatriots, who bring Nick to their extensive base camp where there are doctors and children playing.
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This season, porters working on Everest schlepped 28,000 pounds of human waste — the equivalent weight of two fully-grown elephants -- from base camp down to a nearby dumping site, according to the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC), a local NGO tasked with cleaning up Everest.
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Just an hour and 40 minutes' drive from Reykjavik, the recreational area known as Husafell has long been beloved by Icelanders as a base camp for outdoorsy exploits: You'll find lava caves and waterfalls nearby, as well as Langjokull glacier, one of Iceland's largest.
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But Base Camp wasn't where the story was; it was quite likely the bodies would stop there in a helicopter quickly, if at all, and we couldn't afford to have Josh stranded out of position as the story shifted to other places, including India.
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I was in a teahouse in Dingboche, a remote Nepalese village about a two-day trek from the Mt. Everest base camp, sipping instant coffee, watching the sun rise from behind snow-crested Himalayan peaks, and trawling my Facebook feed using the Everest Link Wi-Fi network.
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Although Wi-Fi has only been available in the Khumbu region for a little over two years, the arrival of affordable internet on the mountain can be traced back to 2010, when a Nepali telecommunications company called NCell made the first-ever video call from base camp.
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Byron Law II from the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton was arrested during that second human smuggling operation at about seven miles from the US-Mexico border on July 3, 2019, according to previous court filings from the US District Court for the Southern District of California.
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We got the former X Games host at LAX Wednesday and asked him about the recent deaths at Mt. Everest ... and Sal delivers a dire warning to rich people who are climbing just for the social media snap -- and for Mandy, who just reached Everest's base camp.
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By mid-May, climbers at the base camp had been anxiously waiting for over five weeks for the weather to abate, allowing Nepali workers to go to the summit in advance to fix ropes to the side of the mountain so that other climbers can follow safely.
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The government said on Wednesday that a team of sherpa climbers picked up the bodies between the base camp and the South Col, the point from where climbers launch their summit attempts, as part of a drive to clean up the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) mountain.
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He was a regular at Camp 21986, a beloved bare-bones site near Yosemite Lodge that climbers have long used as a base camp, and he made first ascents with noted climbers like Royal Robbins, who also advanced the cause of what is known as clean climbing.
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"This isn't Lockheed Martin's vision, and it's not the only vision of how to get to Mars, but we put it out here so that we can globally begin the dialogue," Robert Chambers, an engineer working on the Mars Base Camp concept, said during the presentation.
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On April 30, a famed Swiss climber fell to his death near Mount Everest during preparations to climb the world's highest mountain, while an 85-year-old Nepali man died at the base camp earlier this month while trying to set a record for the oldest climber.
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Since having contestants wrap up in front of the fire in a snowy chalet would rather diminish much of the show's aesthetic, producers have picked South Africa as its destination for the new series -- turning a new villa on the outskirts of Cape Town into base camp.
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US Marines with Amphibious Vehicle Test Branch, Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity, with the assistance from the amphibious transport dock ship USS Somerset (LPD 25), tested the Marine Corps' new Amphibious Combat Vehicle off the shore of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, January 27-28.
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Viesturs, who has an extensive history on Everest, said the proposed changes did not do enough to tackle the "group think" pack mentality that led to the traffic jam in late May, a problem he said also needed to be addressed by climb leaders at base camp.
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Its 500-acre base camp, at the intersection of the Nantahala River and the Appalachian Trail, offers bare-bones platform tents (rented as a cluster to groups, starting at $100 per night), trailside cabins ($200 per night, sleeping 6) and a hostel-style bunkhouse ($523 per night).
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The United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), which had been patrolling a remote stretch of the New Mexico desert from a base camp on property owned by the Union Pacific Railroad company, was ordered to leave the area immediately, said Javier Guerra, police chief for the nearby city of Sunland Park.
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The group of 12, including two British Mountain Guides, an Indian Liaison Officer, and support staff, took off for their expedition and reached their base camp on May 18, with it fully set up by the 21st, according to a website statement from the British Association of Mountain Guides.
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I don't know if it was the encouragement I got from people descending as I climbed, or the views that awaited me as I turned every corner before reaching the Australian Base Camp but seeing the majestic mountains again, I forgot the pain in my shoulders and legs.
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Before this final stretch on our seven-day hike to Africa's highest peak, we fuel up with a light breakfast at our base camp, and pull on all of our warmest layers that we still can manage to move in — a mix of thermal, down, fleece, and Gore-Tex.
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Read more: "Once Upon a Time in Montana," a fairy tale written exclusively for T. With Yellowstone National Park just an hour's drive away, Livingston is a perfect base camp for hikers, and the town's fishing guides make it their business to know every curve of the Yellowstone River.
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"The eyes of the world right now, certainly of all the Americans, are on you," he told a gathering of troops stationed near the Texas town of Donna near the border with Mexico, where the US military set up a base camp when they were deployed ahead of the midterm elections.
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Ian has spoken to Kristyn every day since Robin's death, and she wants to make sure Robin's climbing gear is donated to the local Sherpa community and to create a memorial for him, along with the other monuments to people claimed by the mountain, on the path to base camp.
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The Mars Base Camp plan isn't new, but we are learning more about it, including how it would act a staging ground for longer missions to Mars' surface, but first would focus primarily on short trips for small crews, before graduating to multi-week missions with larger, four-person crews.
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Accompanied by Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, Mattis appeared to take the lead when addressing troops at Donna Base Camp, using the opportunity to encourage those present to block out any outside noise related to politics, and he emphasized the importance of serving as "confidence builders" for Border Patrol officers.
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Adam Rolston, a 28-year-old former rugby player, and Ron Rutland, his friend and caddy for the course, kicked off the 80-day golf odyssey at the base camp of Khüiten Peak on the most western point of Mongolia with a goal of raising $100,000 for children's sport charities.
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