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Americans Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds break the speed climbing record for El Capitan after ascending "The Nose" route.

Video at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-c ... tan-record

Sad News -- https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/ ... avalanche/

Just another ten person accident on Mt Egmont.

https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2017/1 ... app-iPhone

Related mostly to Yosemite, but topic overall is rockfall study. Nice job. anyway, some awesome video on rock fall elsewhere. Just FYI

https://www.climbing.com/news/yosemite- ... 0%2F5%2F17

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/28/us/yosemi ... index.html

A British national died of severe altitude sickness while ascending Mt Manaslu on Monday.

The deceased has been identified as 46-year-old Philip Harver .

Read more at https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/bri ... t-manaslu/

https://www.climbing.com/news/robert-ke ... %2F21%2F17

https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.theg ... alian-alps

On the northeast face of the mountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN-WVBtXtIk

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503438&objectid=11903727

The car was eventually abandoned on a track off Tree Trunk Gorge Rd, off the Desert Rd, near the Three Sisters bends.

The driver and passenger had run off into the bush.

Mr Taylor said police tried to find them but they actively avoided officers and were not found.

As one of the callers only had 2 per cent phone battery left at the time they called, police have only been able to obtain ...