San Diego State University’s football team draws inspiration from Coronado’s Richard Bailey — the former mayor who scaled Mount Everest’s South Summit. His story of perseverance and endurance fuels the Aztecs’ winning season and embodies the true spirit of “The Climb.”
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American mountaineer Jim Morrison becomes the first person in history to ski down Mount Everest’s notorious Hornbein Couloir — a 9,000-foot descent from the summit’s north face, captured by filmmaker Jimmy Chin for National Geographic.
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Investors rush into markets at their peak, just like climbers crowd Mount Everest’s summit — driven by greed, fear, and FOMO. Discover why emotional investing leads to losses and how staying disciplined, like a mountaineer, helps you survive financial storms.
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A new ICIMOD study warns that Mount Everest and the Hindu Kush Himalaya region face accelerating glacier melt and rising risks of glacial lake outburst floods due to climate change, with temperatures increasing three times faster than the global average.
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More than 350 trekkers have been rescued after a severe blizzard struck the Tibetan side of Mount Everest. Around 200 remain stranded near Qudang township as rescue teams continue operations amid harsh Himalayan weather.
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Poland’s Andrzej Bargiel has made history by becoming the first person to ski down the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, without the use of supplemental oxygen. Despite extreme weather conditions and a grueling 16-hour wait in the "death zone," Bargiel successfully completed this historic descent.
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17-year-old Australian climber Bianca Adler’s shocking video from Mount Everest’s “Death Zone” has gone viral with over 22 million views. The young mountaineer shared her struggle to breathe after spending three nights above 8,000 meters, revealing the brutal reality of Everest’s extreme altitude.
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Nepal’s hidden summits are attracting a new generation of climbers seeking adventure beyond Everest.
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Nepal’s hidden mountains are attracting climbers seeking adventure tourism beyond Everest.
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Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the 1953 expedition that first conquered Mount Everest, has passed away in Kathmandu at the age of 92. A hero of the Himalayas, Kanchha’s legacy as part of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s team continues to inspire generations of climbers.
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The summit route on Mt. Ama Dablam (6,812m) has officially opened for climbers after a seven-member fixing team from the Expedition Operators Association (EOA) successfully reached the summit on Sunda
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DENALI NATIONAL PARK: PhuNuru Sherpa does not climb the world's highest mountain for thrills. It's his job. The job is dangerous, often deadly. That's because many of the Sherpas working for expeditio
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