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How do you celebrate a legend of the cold-weather scene hitting middle age? You dust it off, pat it on the back, and barely ...

which is about the elevation of the South Col on the south side of Everest (26,000 feet). The route from Camp V to Camp VI leaves the North Ridge and continues on the North Face. The terrain here ...

Noel Odell, in The Fight for Everest 1924 The North Face of Everest from Base Camp, 1924. By the mid 1920s the farthest corners of the Earth had already been explored: the North and South Poles ...

After an attempt to climb Mount Everest was thwarted by COVID-19, a Colorado man made the trip back to the mountain to summit the peak from the North Face. FOX31's Dan Daru shares his story on ...

The North Face In 1987, it was part of TNF’s modular alpine exploration-oriented Expedition System, spearheaded by Director of Equipment Sally McCoy after the particularly gnarly “Snowbird” Everest ...

Russian style, and in all earnest. And, talking about serious Russian undertakings, the Everest North Face expedition has just completed its acclimatisation process, by climbing Ama Dablam 6856m.

This is not the first ski descent of Everest. The Frenchman Pierre Tardivel skied down the South Face in autumn 1992 but started from the South summit at 8760m while the Italian Hans Kammerlander ...