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Japan's Miura raring to conquer Everest at 80
Miura :: Japan | 1 day ago
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A Japanese mountaineer who just lost his title as the oldest man to climb Mount Everest to a Nepalese fellow septuagenarian vowed Tuesday to do one better and scale the peak aged 80. Japan's Yuichiro Miura, 77, was officially the oldest man to have reached...
Tags: Yuichiro Miura, Mount Everest, Japan, Miura, Everest, Keizo Miura, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, Human Interest
First Everest, now an Ironman for Canadian diabetic
Quebec :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Sebastien Sasseville became the first Canadian suffering from Type 1 diabetes to reach the summit of Mount Everest last year. Now, this 30-year-old Quebec native hopes to make history again by completing an Ironman triathlon. On Nov. 22 Sasseville will...
Tags: Sebastien Sasseville, Arizona Ironman, Mount Everest, Canada, Type, Quebec, Ironman Triathlon, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Sasseville, Health Medical Pharma
A 76-year old man climbed the Mt. Everest
Min Bahadur Sherchan, a Nepali grandfather has been officially recognized by the Guinness Book of Records to have scaled the Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain peak in the world. He did it on 25th May 2008 and he was 76 years and 340 days old at the time....
Tags: Guinness Book of Records, mt everest, Nepal, Kathmandu, Himalaya, Mount Everest, Human Interest, Min Bahadur Sherchan, humanitarian
Oldest Mt Everest climber recognised
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 2 days ago
Credibility Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was among several dignitaries at a function in Kathmandu to congratulate Min Bahadur Sherchan, now 78, after he received an official certificate from Guinness...I was determined to either climb the peak or die trying,"...
Tags: nepal, mt everest, Min Bahadur Sherchan, Mount Everest, Mt. Everest, oldest man, Yuichiro Miura, Kathmandu, Apa Sherpa, Himalaya, Everest, Human Interest, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Newar
K2 conqueror dies
Desio :: Italy | 4 days ago
Credibility An Italian mountaineer who conquered K2 in 1954 died on Friday, six months after the companion who stepped onto the world's second-highest peak for the first time with him. Lino Lacedelli, who would have turned 84 on December 4, had a heart operation...
Tags: Lino Lacedelli, Italy, Desio, K2, Reinhold Messner, Reinhold, Walter Bonatti, Eight-thousanders, Achille Compagnoni, Human Interest, Mount Everest, Mountaineering
Mountain climber to speak at Dole Institute
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 7 days ago
Credibility Robert Link has scaled the world’s tallest peaks, gasping the thin air through some of the worst conditions on the planet. Tonight he’ll be speaking at the Dole Institute of Politics at 7:30 p.m.. The lecture is a part of the Institute’s “Leadership and...
Tags: Dole Institute of Politics, Nepal, Kathmandu, Mount Everest, Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Bill Lacy
Joel Reichenberger: Krakauer comes just short
Steamboat Springs :: CO :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Steamboat Springs Garth Brooks has been undoubtedly popular nationwide. The country music superstar has sold more than 113 million copies of his 14 albums. Still, I always have been convinced that people from my region of Kansas liked him just a little...
Tags: Jon Krakauer, Pat Tillman, Garth Brooks, Steamboat Springs, Kansas, Army Rangers, Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, Tillman, Krakauer, Mount Everest, Entertainment Culture
Body of Himalayan climber recovered
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 11 days ago
Credibility Rescue crews in the Himalayas Saturday recovered the body of a Slovenian climber killed while on a solo ascent, officials say. Tomaz Humar was climbing Lang Tang Lirung, a 23,772-foot peak in Nepal, Monday when he reported to his base camp that he had...
Tags: Tomaz Humar, Tomasz Humar, Mr Humar, Nepal, slovenian climber, veteran slovenian, slovenian mountaineer, Kathmandu, Pahor, Slovenia, Tomaￅﾾ Humar, Tomaￅﾾ, Borut Pahor, Hospitality Recreation, Tibetan Buddhism, Mount Everest, Sherpa, Eight-thousanders, Himalaya, Disaster Accident, Langtang Lirung, Dhaulagiri, Langtang, Mountaineering, Himalayas, Nanga Parbat, Pakistan Army, Astore District
Mountain medics
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 11 days ago
Credibility That is why the one hospital in the region, the Kunde Hospital, is vitally important. Set up in 1966 by Sir Edmund Hillary in the mountain town of Kunde at a height of 3,840m, the hospital is mainly funded by foreign donations. But for the past 10 years,...
Tags: Dr Tsering, Kunde Hospital, says dr, Wangdi Sherpa, Sir Edmund Hillary Foundation, Khumbu, Nepal, Kathmandu, Sherpa, Mount Everest, Edmund Hillary, Hospital, Geography of Nepal, Health Medical Pharma
Climate worries to send Nepal cabinet to Everest base
Kathmandu :: Nepal | 23 days ago
Credibility Nepal's cabinet plans to meet at the base camp of Mount Everest this month to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of next month's U.N. negotiations on climate change, a minister said on Monday. The base camp is located about...
Tags: Mount Everest, Nepal Cabinet, climate change, Everest Base Camp, Nepali Cabinet, Deepak Bohora, minister deepak, global warming
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