Category Archives: climbing

Base Camp, we have a problem! (Everest 2013)

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

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 … Continue reading →

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So, what are you doing this weekend?

Posted on March 3, 2013 by
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Vale Lincoln Hall

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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[TV] The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest

Posted on August 21, 2011 by

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 … Continue reading →

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vale Mick Parker, Melbourne Mountaineer

Posted on June 9, 2009 by

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. … Continue reading →

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Everest 2009

Posted on April 14, 2009 by

Not a hard place to find following yesterdays Puja ceremony as it’s located close to the point where the prayer flags intersect. Flags that now help define our place in the base camp community and with each breeze send prayers … Continue reading →

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55th Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest

Posted on May 29, 2008 by

It is fifty five years since Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest at 11:30 a.m. local time on May 29, 1953 via the South Col Route. Mount Everest: The historic ascent of 1953 (…) On … Continue reading →

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King Lines

Posted on December 14, 2007 by

I’ve always been dreaming of finding the biggest most bad assed line that you can imagine. The line that’s just calling out to you; beckoning to be climbed; that’s the King Line. –Chris Sharma Just discovered this one via QuickTime. … Continue reading →

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Everest: the cost of climbing

Posted on May 25, 2006 by

The Everest summit season is on for 2006, and so far there have been 9 deaths (compared with 1996 record of 12 fatalities). There has been a discussion in the popular press about the ethics of rescuing at altitude, or … Continue reading →

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Well that’s one for the books …

Posted on June 4, 2005 by

A Nepalese couple have become the first in the world to be married on the summit of Mt Everest (summiting from the Nepal side). The couple was part of the Rotary Centennial Everest Expedition and scaled the peak with 45 … Continue reading →

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