Everest brawl: climbers fight on famous mountain Police near Mount Everest are investigating reports of a fight on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain between two foreign climbers and their Nepalese guides, officials said on Sunday.
“We were told our clients and the guides fought on their way to camp three. We don’t have all the details yet, but our clients have come down off the peak,” said Anish Gupta of Cho-Oyu Trekking, the Kathmandu-based company that organised the expedition.
He said that one of the clients, a Swiss national, had descended the mountain and was currently waiting for a flight back to Kathmandu. …
– Everest brawl: climbers fight on famous mountain (2013-Apr-29) [SMH]
Not the type of story that you want to see coming from this year’s Everest expeditions, but this has been brewing for some time.
Lincoln Ross Hall, OAM (19 December 1955 – 20 March 2012) was a veteran Australian mountain climber, adventurer, author and philanthropist. Hall was part of the first Australian expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1984, which successfully forged a new route, and he reached the summit of the mountain on his second attempt in 2006, miraculously surviving the night at 8700 metres on descent.
Hall lived in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia with his wife and two sons and was a founding Director of the Australian Himalayan Foundation. He was the author of seven books.
In 1987 Hall was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to mountaineering and in 2010 he won the Australian Geographic Society’s Lifetime of Adventure award. He was a life member of the Australian National University Mountaineering Club. He died of mesothelioma aged 56 on 20 March 2012.
– wikipedia
Back in 2004 I read Ghosts of Everest the story of the expedition and search for Mallory & Irvine;
Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine
by Jochen Hemmleb, Eric R. Simonson, Larry A. Johnson (1999) Ghosts of Everest is a riveting recounting of a story that is capturing the world’s attention, three-quarters of a century after the mystery began. What happened to Everest climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine on June 8, 1924, the day they set out on their summit bid only to disappear without any evidence of their fate or possible achievement? Were these two brave pioneers, whose determination has inspired generations of climbers, the first to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? How did they perish? Seventy-five years later, do we now have the answers? …
Meticulously researched and with new evidence and artifacts found on the mountain, this narrative promises to shed a revealing light on the seventy-five-year-old Mallory/Irvine mystery and two of the greatest heroes of our time.
The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest
On ABC1 8.30pm tonight [1] The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest covers Conrad Anker, one of expedition mountaineers in Ghosts of Everest, as he retraces Mallory’s final attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Accompany present-day adventurer Conrad Anker as he recreates the 1924 ascent of George Mallory to the top of Mount Everest to solve a 75-year old mystery.
THE WILDEST DREAM brings to the giant screen the last days of adventurer and Mount Everest climber George Mallory the man who may or may not have been the first to scale the worlds most challenging peak. After disappearing 800 feet from the summit in 1924, Mallorys body was never found until present-day climber Conrad Anker discovered it, frozen and intact, 75 years later. …
It is very interesting to hear the modern mountaineers commenting on the equipment that Mallory & Irvine used for their climb – “the gear I would use for a walk in the forest”.
How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end — to know there’s no dream that mustn’t be dared…Is this the summit, crowning the day? How cool and quiet! We’re not exultant; but delighted, joyful, soberly astonished. Have we vanquished an enemy? None but ourselves. Have we gained success? That word means nothing here. Have we won a kingdom? No…and yes. We have achieved an ultimate satisfaction…fulfilled a destiny. To struggle and to understand — never this last without the other; such is the law.
– George Mallory
Everest – Shooting The Impossible
A compelling behind-the-scenes companion program – Everest: Shooting The Impossible, documenting the perils involved in shooting a film in one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth, will screen on ABC2 on Sunday, August 21st at 10.00pm.
A classic quote discussing the filming of climbing in the historical equipment;
This is possibly the highest costume drama ever filmed, at 26000 feet. I can understand why now.
Summitted the true summit of Shishapangma at 5.05pm, 2nd October, with Neil Ward.
Very tough climb via a variation of the Inaki route on the north face, caught in a storm on descent with an open bivouac at 7600 metres without equipment thrown in for good measure.
Just into basecamp now, bit tired, more later.
– Did it. (2009-Oct-04) [Andrew Lock: Blog]
This makes Andrew the first Australian to climb all 14 of the world’s 8000m+ summits. Possibly made even sweeter after the initial cancellation of the expedition in April?
Shishapangma (officially: Xixiabangma) is the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the eight-thousanders. It was the last 8,000 metre peak to be climbed, due to its location entirely within Tibet and the restrictions on outside visitation to the region imposed by Tibetan and Chinese authorities.
The Tibetan name shi sha sbang ma means “crest above the grassy plains”. The Chinese name Xīxiàbāngmǎ Fēng 希夏幫馬峰 is a phonetic rendition of the Tibetan name. (In Sanskrit, the mountain is called Gosainthan, which means “place of the saint”). Another interpretation, based on the spelling Shisha-Pangma, is that the name means, literally, “Sherpa Woman.” [ from wikipedia]
Mick Parker of (AUS) and Roland Stuart Hunter (UK) successfully summited Makalu 21st May 2009 without Climbing Sherpa support and without using Oxygen. Unfortunately Mick suffered an oedema and passed away in Kathmandu last Thursday. Australia loses a great mountaineer. Our thoughts are with Mick’s family.
Australian mountaineer dies
A MELBOURNE mountaineer has died in Nepal after climbing the world’s fifth-highest mountain without the aid of oxygen.
Mick Parker, 36, died last Thursday after returning to Kathmandu from the 8,462-metre Himalayan peak of Makalu, the Herald Sun newspaper reports.
Mr Parker suffered oedema – a build-up of fluid – and blacked out several times on his way back to Kathmandu following his climb on May 21.
He died five days ago.
The Warrandyte graphic designer has climbed five peaks over 8,000 metres and has attempted eight others, including Mount Everest, without sherpas or oxygen, the newspaper said.
He has led Australian Army Alpine Association expeditions to some of the world’s most dangerous peaks, it said.
His father, Bruce Parker, said Mick was a dedicated climber who enjoyed testing his limits.
“He was the only Australian I know still climbing who has never used oxygen over 8000m,” Mr Parker told the Herald Sun.
“He just loved climbing. He used to shun the limelight but … he should be recognised even if it’s after his life.”
– Australian mountaineer dies (2009-Jun-09) [The Australian]
After holding out for a long time and only owning the Leatherman Micra, I weakened during the last week and now am the proud owner of the Leatherman Wave.
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On Sunday(9/11/08) we went 4W driving through the Toolangi forest. We went up & down a few bumpy & tricky hills, and I loved every second of it. My bro was counting U turns, there was 7. When we got to the geocache place the veiw was FANTASTIC and I got a Buddha from China. After all the fun we got an ice cream & dad and the rest of the gang had a coffee.
– KSR # 1192
Event Name : Toolangi ‘extra’ Day trip
Day and Date of Event : Sunday 9 November 2008
Location/Description : A wander through Toolangi Just getting back into running some trips so this will be an easy trip with a few optional bits for the more adventurous. It’s more a Sunday day out than a 4WD trek. … [Pajero Club]
Via the World Expeditions Only Footprints enewsletter; a visually stunning exhibition of India as taken through the lens of Alison Shirley and Michelle Dunn.
India & all its wonders from behind the lens
World Expeditions would like to invite our Melbourne adventurers to a new exhibition by photographers Alison Shirley and Michelle Dunn which showcases their 3 month journey through enchanting India. The exhibition captures everyday life in India and highlights the incredible diversity found in the people and landscapes of this exciting country.
Alison’s photos of India are a reflection of her interest in photographing “found” subjects, where she has little control over the situation in which she shoots. This requires her to call on her own way of seeing life, along with photographic technique to make a captivating image of that moment.
After spending two and a half years travelling and photographing around the world, Michelle Dunn returned to Australia and moved to Melbourne to further her photographic skills through study. Her enjoyment of ‘shooting the moment’ is evident in the exhibition which features photos from her three months in India.
Alison and Michelle have both held their own solo travel exhibitions of outback Australia & Costa Rica. ‘Experiencing India’ is their first exhibition together.
EXPERIENCING INDIA – PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
With Alison Shirley and Michelle Dunn
Opening Night October 15th 6:30pm to 9pm & then on exhibition until November 15th
Travellers Bookstore Gallery
Level 1 294 Smith Street Collingwood
Feel like following an adventure live on the internet?
Rowing solo across the Pacific Roz Savage is on a three stage, three year project to row solo across the Pacific – 7600 miles from the United States to Australia. Roz has a web site at www.rozsavage.com on which she posts to her blog and is also on Twitter.
An inspiring and daring solo row across the Pacific Ocean to maximize opportunities to explain and publicize a broad range of environmental issues that affect our ocean. The Pacific Voyage project is a 3-stage challenge – launched in May 2008, covering 7,600 miles from California to Australia, with stopovers in Hawaii and Tuvalu. The row will document the challenges our ocean faces and produce a series of inspirational videos and materials to educate the public and begin a ripple of change.
- Marine Conservation & Awareness- Pacific Solo Row
Roz also has a podcast on Leo Laporte’s TWiT Netcast Network Roz Rows The Pacific
Junk Sailing to Hawaii on 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cesna 310 to raise awareness about plastic fouling our oceans – www.junkraft.blogspot.com
Departing from Los Angeles on June 2nd for Hawaii, Algalita staff set sail on “Junk,” a raft built on 15,000 plastic bottles. Their 2,100 mile journey will take them through the plastic-plagued Northern Pacific Gyre. Designed by Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal, the raft boasts an airplane fuselage, discarded fishing nets, a solar generator, and a wind turbine. This ambitious journey will bring further public attention to the plastic marine debris issue. – Algalita Marine Research Foundation
@cfsmtbation absolutely - I broke toes at the winter classic in similar conditions, didn't find out until being transported back to accom. 11 hours ago
World Expeditions would like to invite our Melbourne adventurers to a new exhibition by photographers Alison Shirley and Michelle Dunn which showcases their 3 month journey through enchanting India. The exhibition captures everyday life in India and highlights the incredible diversity found in the people and landscapes of this exciting country. 
