In a sad reflection of the pressure perceived by today's professional climbers to succeed, the Austrian mountaineer Christian Stangl has confessed to falsifying his recent claim of reaching the summit of K2. Read more »
The well-known American Erik Weihenmayer, who in 2001 became the first blind person to summit Everest, has recently climbed Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia. This completes his odyssey on the seven main continental summits (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Elbrus, Vinson, Kilimanjaro and Carstensz, though Weihenmayer had also ascended Kosciuszko, which is sometimes substituted for Carstensz). Read more »
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