News of News

http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/ ... 250-metres (in French)

http://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/2 ... 151831.php (in French)

http://www.ski-libre.com/news/nouveau-r ... -en-cours/ (in French)

Engineers in France have started work to drain an immense lake that has built up under an Alpine glacier on Mont Blanc, an attempt to prevent a repeat of a flood that killed 175 people more than 100 years ago.

Specialists are drilling into the glacier as part of preparations to slowly pump out the 65,000 cubic meters (2,275,000 cubic feet) of liquid believed trapped beneath the Tete Rousse glacier, the mayor of the Alpine ...

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0824/nepal.html

very sad. this has to be the scariest flight in the world

HERE :cry:

Unless there's an uncanny coincidence, it seems that this:

http://www.summitpost.org/plans/view_ac ... st_id=8164
http://www.summitpost.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=52807

turned into this:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... 990018.htm
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/missing-skier ... 13ady.html

:-D

Austrian sky runner Christian Stangl has summited k2

http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/ ... p?id=19583

http://www.skyrunning.at/

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web10x/news ... han-tengri
http://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/ ... p?id=19582

Info on Khan Tengri -- http://summitpost.org/rock/150339/khan-tengri.html

Swat Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESqaSgeWJfA