When Bargiel finally reached the summit, he simply put on his skis and started skiing down. He was able to link snowy sections throughout his entire descent. From the summit, he descended along the shoulder towards the Cesen Route, passing below huge seracs, then via the extremely difficult...
Fifty years after he and his companion became the first climbers to reach the summit of K2, the world's second tallest mountain, Lino Lacedelli, now a sprightly 78, is in its shadow again. He has gone back, he told reporters in the town of Skardu, en route to K2, "to say hello ...
"Next year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Chinese woman to summit Mount Qomolangma. In 1975, China's Panduo became the first woman in the world to summit from the north side. I want to do something to honor her. The history of Chinese mountaineering is a difficult one, and we...
Launched in March 2009, Kepler is NASA's first mission to find potentially habitable Earth-size planets. The space telescope halted its mission in 2013 due to a technical glitch and began a new extended mission called K2 in 2014. NASA said Kepler's first four-year dataset consists of 35,00...
( 8126m) the world’s Ninth highest Mountain in Pakistan today between 10:00A.M – 10:50 A.M (Pakistan Local time).According to 8k expedition Chris is a Successful Entrepreneur, CEO and Leadership expert.He was the ninth American to Summit Both Everest & K2. He Summited 10 x 8000er...
Each house has got at least one person who has already summited Everest and in some families up to four men have summited. And this number grows every year. Mountaineering has now become the main occupation for people from here, and since almost all men aged 16-60 leave for months on ...
Now as “firsts of difficulty” fall, they are being replaced by “firsts of identity.” James Whittaker was the first American to summit Everest in 1963. Junko Tabei was the first woman (1975). Since then, Everest has spawned a growing brood of “identity first” summits including nationa...
“all-women’s summit” because male Sherpas had supported them. “Everyone who climbs big mountains relies on a team of porters or Sherpas,” Pasang said. “We just did what’s normal in mountaineering…. We would like people to recognize us as the first women’s team to summit K2, ...
17-year-old climber Nima Rinji Sherpa has achieved more success in the 8,000-meter mountain. He is involved in the mission to climb 14 mountains higher than 8000 meters and has succeeded in climbing the 11th mountain today.According to Seven Summit treks He climbed the Annapurna first mountai...
Sony continues its tradition of introducing a “complete solution” rather then a “camera only” device. The XLR-K2 can accompany the new camera for a better audio. In my video review, most of the footage was take with Sony’s FE/PZ 28-135mm G lens which proved to be a perfect fit...