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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 ...
The most notable deadly events on Everest were the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition, 1970 Everest disaster, 1974 Everest disaster, 1996 Everest disaster, 2014 Mount Everest avalanche, and 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and the 2023 Mount Everest season. As of August 2024, there had been 12,678 successful summits, and 365 people had died ...
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.
On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. [11][12][13] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. [14][15][16] During the 2023 season, a ...
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]
2008 K2 disaster. The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second- highest mountain on Earth. [1][2] Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single accident in the history of K2 ...
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 ...
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without using supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters. [1][2][3] In 2012, she won the prestigious National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award. [4]