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A short history of Cerro Torre, the world’s most controversial mountain
Rising above the Southern Patagonian Ice Field on the border of Chile and Argentina is a narrow finger of rock 3128 metres in height that for over 50 years has been a source of controversy among the...
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A short history of Nanga Parbat, the Naked German Mountain
With the news last week that Sandy Allan and Rick Allen have completed the Mazeno Ridge on Nanga Parbat (8125m), the longest continuous ridge on any 8000 metre peak, I was reminded of the colourful...
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Is K2 the new Everest?
There were remarkable events on K2 this week, with record numbers of climbers reaching the summit. K2 is regarded as one of the hardest mountains in the world, but has it now become within the range of...
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An early history of the 8000m peaks: Mummery, Crowley and the Duke of Abruzzi
The fourteen peaks over 8000 metres have enjoyed a special status throughout the 20th century and were subject to many races to climb them. In the first of a short series of posts about their early...
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Tomek Mackiewicz and Nanga Parbat: a Shakespearean mountaineering tragedy
Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat (8,125m), the world’s ninth-highest mountain, has had its share of strange tragedies. It was the first 8,000m peak to take a climber’s life in 1895, when Albert Mummery and two...
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