Since the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1924, about three hundred climbers have died on the highest mountain in the world. Two hundred of them are never brought back to the valley and have found their eternal resting place on the mountain. People who are planning to climb Mount Everest are not only physically …
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Mount Kinabalu is a mountain in Malaysia that fires the imagination of many adventurous climbers. With a height of 13,435 feet above see level (4.095 m), Mount Kinabalu is locally seen as the highest mountain in Southeast Asia, although that is actually not true.
The ever so cheerful Austria with its schnapps, schnitzels and dirndls has been a lot less cheerful since a while. After all, the country is gripped by a surprising verdict made by a judge last month, following a 45-year-old German hiker, who was trampled by cows. The incident itself dates back to 2014. At the …
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This month Egypt introduced its first long-distance hiking trail on the mainland: The Red Sea Mountain Trail. This trip of 105 miles (170km) will take you 10 days long over old trade routes and hunting trails. You will hike through savage landscapes of vast desert plains and climb over rough rocks with deep gorges. Far …
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I proudly introduce to you: Mera. Mera is a Nepalese stray dog. This presumable cross breed between a Tibetan mastiff and a Bhutia sheepdog was until recently a dog just like any other. But when the female dog climbed the summit of the Baruntse in the high mountains of the Himalayas, her life changed forever. …
First dog in the world, to climb a 23,000 feet Himalayan mountain Read More »
