JUST IN: An eight-member team of icefall doctors along with two kitchen staff, a garbage management staff, and a base camp manager, left for Mt #Everest (8848.86 m) BC from Namche Bazaar today. The team will fix and maintain the Khumbu icefall route for climbers attempting Mt Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse in the spring 2024 climbing season. The team includes BC Manager Tshering Tenji Sherpa, icefall doctors; Ang Sarki Sherpa, Dawa Nuru Sherpa, Pemba Tshering Sherpa, Ngima Tenzi Sherpa, Nawang Chhimi Sherpa, Dawa Chhiri Sherpa, Dawa Zangbu Sherpa, and Mingma Gyalzen Sherpa) kitchen staff; Ngawang Thanten and Ongdi Gelbu Sherpa, and garbage management staff Yam Bahadur Lama, according to Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC). Photo/Archive: David Breashears.
Wonderful footage of #Matterhorn in a sparkling morning today! 😍
@ArpaValledAosta team is approaching the Italian side to recover data from boreholes to monitor permafrost 🏔️ 🧊
If you want to learn more, check out freshly published Pogliotti et al paper:
https://t.co/Qq1uNHeENI
Not been feeling great a lot better today live everyday. Classic photo inspirational to me in Glenmore Lodge of Bill March on window gully. What’s yours?
@lakedistrictnpa Well done Tony and Hari
dai our good friend
From all at injured veterans’ charity
Climb 2 Recovery
You must join our injured veterans for a rock climb soon
Mac Mackay
Chair of trustees
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All eyes were on the Old Man of Hoy. But the biggest cliff here is St John’s Head. Climbed by the ‘Longhope Route’ (centre left), it is one of the longest routes in Britain.
Endless Ridge Lines
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The problem with climbing mountains is that the views become endless, and more mountains come into view, that just beg to be explored and climbed. This view gives you so many dreams…
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#chamonix#montblanc#summit
28th April: #OTD in the #Falklands war, the UK upgrades the Maritime Exclusion Zone to a Total Exclusion Zone for all shipping and aircraft within 200 miles of the Falklands. Argentina is advised through the Swiss Embassy that any military vessels in the TEZ can be attacked.
The Stone of Destiny, the ancient symbol of Scotland's monarchy, has left Edinburgh Castle for London to be used in the coronation of King Charles III
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