A community portal about Mount Everest with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Mount Everest or Chomolungma is the highest point on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which...
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A community portal about Mount Everest with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Mount Everest or Chomolungma is the highest point on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and China.
A Nepalese climber who scaled Everest aged 76 has finally been named by Guinness World Records as the oldest man to do so, following a lengthy battle for recognition. Min Bahadur Sherchan, now 78, reached the summit of the world's highest peak in May 2008, but later discovered he had lost out on the record because he failed to provide the necessary evidence of his achievement. Instead, Guinness World Records awarded the accolade to Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese climber one year Sherchan's... Read Full Story
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Nepal cabinet meets at the Mount Everest base camp today to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
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Erik Weihenmayer blind climber.
“I think this is the best time in history, the most precious time in history to be a pioneer, to reach out, to seize hold of adversity and challenges we face, to harness energy not only to transform our own lives, but to elevate the world around us.” Erik Weihenmayer
Erik Weihenmayer – World-Class Blind Adventurer .
On May 25, 2001, Erik Weihenmayer became the only blind man in... Read Full Story
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Nepalese govt holds a historic cabinet meeting at the Mount Everest base camp to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.
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Chinese scientists have begun operating an earthquake monitoring station at the foot of Mount Everest in a bid to learn more about the world's highest peak, an official said Monday. The station, which began operating over the weekend, is located at about 14,000 feet (4,255 meters) in Tibet's Tingri County, said Shang Rongbo, a deputy director with the regional seismology bureau. The station will support real-time collection of data about seismic events along the China-Nepal border, sending... Read Full Story
Lhasa to Everest Base Camp – Trek with Himalayan Planet .
Everest Base camp tour from the Tibet site is one of the most hidden, beautiful and untamed place in the world with its rich culture with hundreds of Monastery and chorten can be seen during your whole trip to Tibet that is starting to emerge from centuries of isolation.
Tibet – Mysterious land of Himalaya
Tibet is a spiritual land which is a culturally, religiously, ethnically, linguistically and geographically distinct region... Read Full Story
Mark your calendars! 4th to 6th December 2009 in Krakow, Poland. VII KFG – 7th Krakow Mountain Film Festival. The 7th Krakow Mountain Festival (KFG) starts in a 2 weeks (4-6 December 2009). As always, the most important part of the festival are guests and mountain films. We have already written a bit about our guests. Let’s just remind you that among this year’s foreign climbing stars are Patxi Usobiaga – the world master of onsight (the Basque will also conduct climbing workshops,), Tommy... Read Full Story
“ Mountains are beyond good and evil ” – Freidrich Nietzsche.
The unprecedented feats in the highest mountains would sometimes claim the lives of the expedition members. Many outstanding mountaineers remained in the mountains forever – unfortunately the list of souls asking for prayer is not limited to Wanda Rutkiewicz and Jerzy Kukuczka. It includes climbers less known to the general public, but no less talented, such as Wojciech Wróż and Andrzej Czok.
There are also those who were just... Read Full Story
Mark your calendars!
4th to 6th December 2009 in Krakow, Poland.
VII KFG – 7th Krakow Mountain Film Festival.
The 7th Krakow Mountain Festival (KFG) starts in a month (4-6 December 2009). As always, the most important part of the festival are guests and mountain films.
We have already written a bit about our guests. Let’s just remind you that among this year’s foreign climbing stars are Patxi Usobiaga – the world master of onsight (the Basque will also conduct climbing workshops... Read Full Story
The world?s highest mountain has found itself at the centre of the global debate on the environment. In recent years, mountaineers at Everest Base Camp have attracted criticism because of the accumulated high-altitude litter left by summit expeditions. Environmentalists have also used changes to the environment on Mount Everest (8,848 metres) to highlight the issue of global climate change. But this publicity cuts both ways; it makes Everest both a cause for concern and a high-exposure... Read Full Story
