Sherpas and scientists faced extreme weather and record crowds as they struggled to install a crucial network of weather sensors.
Others had altitude sickness, but after flying to Nepal and paying thousands of dollars, they felt had to reach the top. Hypoxia, the deprivation of oxygen, made their own decision-making an obstacle. Klorfine eventually reached the summit, but her journey home would end in the death zone...
For some teams, survival trumped summit as the ultimate goal. Others had altitude sickness, but after flying to Nepal and paying thousands of dollars, they felt had to reach the top. Hypoxia, the deprivation of oxygen, made their own decision-making an obstacle. Klorfine eventually reached the...
Country:Uganda Mount Speke is the second highest mountain in the Rwenzori Mountains. The mountain was named after English explorer John Hanning Speke. It is located close by to Mount Stanley and the journey to the top is similar. However, summiting Mount Speke was formerly an extensive snow cli...
etc. Unfortunately though, I had to turn back from Camp 1 due to HAPE which was somewhat surprising to me as I have previously never had any problems at this altitude. However, this gave me the opportunity to try out downhill muleback-riding which gave me another good adrenaline kick (...
In which two atmospheric zones does temperature decrease with altitude? Which biome has the hottest temperatures? What zone lies along the subtropical jet stream? What is a climate zone map? Which temperature zone contains the ozone layer?
People have traversed the channel by boat, plane, Chunnel and backstroke, but Yves Rossy chose a less obvious method: jet pack. Rossy jumped from a plane over the coast of France and unfolded an 8-foot-long carbon-fiber wing strapped to his back; four jets on the wing thrust him to En...
We finally reached the summit at 10 am, 10 hours of hiking. The actual distance is only 8km, but it’s almost 2km in altitude too. We spent all of about 5 minutes at the summit, but it was cold, visibility was low so off we went, back down. We picked up the pace, dug into...
Standing majestically at an altitude of 7570m, the Gangkhar Puensum or White Peak of the Three Spiritual Brothers lies on the borders of Bhutan and China.Why has Gangkhar Puensum stayed unconquered?Since Bhutan opened its doors to mountaineering in 1983, four expeditions had been attempted but ...
However, in this specific case, the MWL flux from the associated jet received at Earth was quite reduced by the relatively large viewing angle (the X-ray flux at the peak of the emission reached about 2×10−142×10−14 erg cm−2−2 s−1−1). The H.E.S.S. observations ...