(MountEverest.net) Due perhaps to the big number of “summits” actually ending below the knife ridge, Shisha Pangma is a vastly underestimated climbing target. There were only two summits this fall, at best. But what about the Central Summit claims, and how low below do such actually stretch? In Iñaki’s footsteps September 27, a strong group of climbers on Shisha’s north side set off from camp 3 towards the top. The attempt stopped short of the Central summit. In fact, only o... Read Full Story

(MountEverest.net) Climb until you reach a point where you can’t climb any higher. Mountain tops are that simple. Or are they? Most every summit claim on Shisha last month were countered by contradictory reports and, in some cases, illustrated by stolen images and false certificates. Why we climb The late Iñaki Ochoa told ExWeb some years ago that probably half of the 8000ers summits listed on AdventureStats, Himalaya Database and other places are false. In light of recent events, it... 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 beginn... 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,), Tommy Cald... Read Full Story

Parallel universes create the Himalaya expedition scene where species live by their own rules within their own reality in a nature that appears the same but treats each sort differently. And they seldom mix. There are the adventure trekkers, the Everest baggers, the big-summit collectors, the alpinists tackling unclimbed faces on lower peaks and the mountaineers attempting 8000ers via new routes and/or during difficult seasons. This week at ExplorersWeb, focus was on the world of Himalayan sp... Read Full Story

I would like to invite you to watch one of movie of Everest collection… Puja Ceremony at Mount Everest Base Camp. A Puja Ceremony is always held at Mount Everest Base Camp. Until this ceremony is held, no climber or Sherpa is allowed on the mountain, for fear of angering the gods. A lama, a Buddhist holy man, usually oversees the ceremony. During the Puja, the climbers and Sherpa’s pray to the gods for their permission to climb Mount Everest and for a blessing for a safe and successful exped... Read Full Story

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Od 13 do 15 listopada odbędą się w Krakowie III Spotkania Podróżników i Eksplorerów, kilkanaście godzin pokazów zdjęć, filmów i prezentacji. Prelegenci to zarówno postaci dobrze znane i cenione w podróżniczym środowisku, jak i – a może przede wszystkim – młodzi, ambitni globtroterzy także mający już w swoim dorobku znakomite dokonania, nierzadko światowej rangi. Nie zabraknie m.in. laureatów Kolosów. Wśród uczestników także wielu znakomitych wspinaczy, którzy opowiedzą o swoich górskich zmaga... Read Full Story

Tekst poniżej przedstawiony, “Szczelina – historia Piotra Morawskiego” to obszerne fragmenty artykułu “Śmierć człowieka gór”, który opublikowano na portalu www.sports.pl. Autor : Marek Wawrzynowski. Szczelina – historia Piotra Morawskiego Czy ja wyglądam na wdowę? – pyta Olga Morawska. Na spotkanie przyszła z 2-letnim synem Gustawem. Starszy o 2 lata Ignacy pojechał gdzieś z wujkiem. Olga zapewnia, że tak jest lepiej, bo gdyby byli obaj, „roznieśliby ... Read Full Story

“The good Lord helped us both climb to great heights on the same day” – this is the most famous quotation related to Polish Himalayan climbing and it moves us now as much as ever, or perhaps even more, since both of the interlocutors are no longer with us. The words were spoken by the pope John Paul II to Wanda Rutkiewicz on the 10th of June 1979, during his first pilgrimage to Poland. He was referring to the amazing day of the 16th of October 1978, which was of utmost importance for bo... Read Full Story