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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Alberto Zerain Berasategi (20 August 1961 – 24 June 2017 [1]) was a Spanish mountaineer. He is best known as a solo alpinist and the first person to summit K2 during the 2008 K2 Disaster [2] on 1 August. Zerain summited the mountain solo from Camp III and successfully descended before the series of events that led to the deaths of 11 climbers ...
Jim Wickwire. Jim Wickwire (born June 8, 1940) is the first American to summit K2, the second highest mountain in the world (summit at 8,611 m (28,251 ft)). [1][2][3] Wickwire is also known for surviving an overnight solo bivouac on K2 at an elevation above 27,000 ft or 8,200 m; considered "one of the most notorious bivouacs in mountaineering ...
Weightlifting. Squash. Table tennis. Tennis. Triathlon. Volleyball. This article lists the main competition climbing events and their results for 2024. This includes the World Cup, World Championships, International Climbing Series, and Continental Championships.
The men's competition climbing combined event at the 2024 Summer Olympics took place from 5 to 9 August 2024 at Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Paris. It marked the second Olympics to feature this event as part of the programme. Competition climbing only received one men's event that combined bouldering, lead, and speed climbing at the 2020 ...
Ger McDonnell. Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971 – 2 August 2008), mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irishman to reach the summit of K2, [1] the second- highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He died along with 10 other mountaineers following an avalanche on the descent, [2] in the deadliest accident in the history of K2 ...