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From December 2014 to March 2015, during a project known as "Starlight and Storms", Tom Ballard climbed these six north faces solo, being the first person to complete this feat in a single winter season without a support team. [4] A film chronicling this project, Tom, won several awards at international film festivals. [5] [6]
The 1933 Everest expedition used Meade tents 6.5 by 4 feet (2.0 by 1.2 m) that weighed 16 pounds (7.3 kg) as well as 7-foot (2.1 m) square Whymper tents. [12] [13] The successful 1953 expedition used two-man Meade tents for the higher camps and Hunt reported that one night at a low level eight Sherpas slept in a two-man tent. [14] [15]
The first tent designed specifically for mountaineering was the Whymper tent of the 1860s. This weighed about 20 pounds (9 kg) and used four poles 6.5 feet (2.0 m) long and so was only suitable for full expeditions of the kind Edward Whymper undertook in the 1860s in the Alps. Mummery favoured small expeditions without professional guides or ...
Breslauer Hütte (2,844 m) in the Ötztal Alps, Austria. A mountain hut is a building located at high elevation, in mountainous terrain, generally accessible only by foot, intended to provide food and shelter to mountaineers, climbers and hikers.
1 Mont Blanc, 2 Piz Bernina, 3 Barre des Écrins, 4 Dufourspitze, 5 Finsteraarhorn, 6 Gran Paradiso, 7 Grand Combin, 8 Dom, 9 Matterhorn, 10 Aletschhorn, 11 Weisshorn, 12 Weissmies This list tabulates all of the 82 official mountain summits of 4,000 metres (13,123 ft) or more in height in the Alps , as defined by the International Climbing and ...
In 1993, Hargreaves decided to solo climb the six great north faces of the Alps in a single season, and become the first person to do so. The spring and summer weather were particularly bad that year, and she was forced to use alternative routes for the Grandes Jorasses and the Eiger. Without pictures to prove her success and with the use of ...