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Kenro Nakajima. Takeo " Kenro " Nakajima (中島 健郎; October 19, 1984 – July 27, 2024) was a Japanese elite alpinist and cameraman. In 2018, Nakajima and his climbing partner Kazuya Hiraide received the 26th Piolet d'Or for their ascent of the unclimbed northeast face of Shispare, which they climbed in 2017. In 2020, the pair won their ...
Fastest to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in 92 days. [1][2][3][4] Fastest to climb Everest and Lhotse by woman in 8 hours. [5][6] Kristin Harila (born 28 March 1986) [7] is a Norwegian-Northern Saami [8][9][10] mountaineer and former cross-country skier. During 2022–2023, she set multiple speed records for the ascent of all 14 eight ...
K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). [6] It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.
A record-breaking Norwegian climber has hit out at what she calls “misinformation and hatred” surrounding claims she and her team climbed over a dying porter on K2 to summit the deadly peak ...
Harila and Tenjin scaled Mount K2 in Pakistan last week, thus concluding the climb of the 14th peak — that is more than 8000 meters (about 26,000 feet) — high in 92 days, shattering the ...
v. t. e. Competition climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 5 to 10 August at Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Saint-Denis, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in Tokyo 2020. [1] The total number of medal events was doubled from two in the previous edition because the ...
May 12, 2024 at 1:00 AM. KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — One of greatest climbing guides on Mount Everest has scaled the world's highest peak for the 29th time, extending his own record for most times ...
Known for. Youngest woman to climb K2 [1] Website. adrianabrownlee.com. Adriana Brownlee is an English mountaineer, certified paragliding pilot, and adventure athlete. [2] She is the youngest woman to have climbed the world’s second highest peak K2 on July 28, 2022 [3][4][5] and youngest women to climb the higher 8,000ers on 28 July 2022. [6]