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Primera ascensión a la cara SO del Huaguruncho

Pakistani Samina Khayal bags virgin 6000er. She was with a team who renamed the peak Samina Peak. It was unclimbed Chashkin Sar 6400m

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/ ... p?id=19642


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I am posting the info from the Polish climbing website drytooling.com and several Polish newspapers about two Polish climbers missing in Kazakhstan, on their way to Khan Tengri. One of them, Piotr Zwolinski, is actually my cousin.

Piotr Zwolinski (aged 45) and Michal Kacperski (30) landed in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 2 August, aiming at climbing Khan Tengri. They registered with the police and arrived at the tourist agency Tourasia where they left a part of ...

http://explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?id=19630

I know some of you must be following, as I have, what has to be the biggest news in outdoor adventure this year. Super-hiker Andrew Skurka is nearing the completion of a truly epic 4700 mile trek through Alaska and the Yukon. He started in March in Kotzebue and has skied/packrafted/hiked across the Alaska Range, the Wrangell-St.Elias, the Lost Coast, the Yukon River, and now the Brooks Range on his way back to Kotzebue. With ...

Three Russian climbers have died on Pik Pobeda in the Tien Shan Mountains and 2 Polish climbers are lost on Khan Tengri in Kazakhstan :(

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/ ... p?id=19629

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/ ... p?id=19627

A South Korean mountaineer hailed as the first woman to climb the world's 14 highest peaks has been stripped of her title, after a mountaineering body claimed evidence she had completed the challenge was "unreliable".

Oh Eun-Sun, 44, "probably failed" to reach the top of the world's third highest mountain Kanchenjunga, according to the Korean Alpine Federation (KAF) on Thursday.

The record should now pass to Spanish climber Edurne Pasaban, 37, who scaled the last ...

MSNBC news article.

The article doesn't mention his family, but I hope this brings closure for them.

http://bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-taysi ... l-11082815

http://alanhalewood.blogspot.com

http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=57427