Extreme Mountains
Extreme Mountains
EverestNews
- the 14 tallest 8,000meter summits
K2 - the toughest mountain
Summit height: 28,250ft (8,611
meters)
Pakistani Name: Chogori (the king of mountains)
Stats (12/31/2000)
Summit count: 189 people
Death count: 49 people (22 of them on descent)
History:
(1856) surveyor Montgomerie identifies K2 (K=Karakorams)
(1902) J.Guillarmot & V.Wesseley reached 6523m (21,400ft)
(1937,1938,1939,1953) - summit attempts
(1954) first summit - A. Compagnoni, L. Lacedelli
(RussianClimb.com)
Krzysztof Wielicki
interview - broken bones, climbing...
K2 in winter -
December prep
First Russian Expedition to K2 (1996) |
Everest - tallest mountain
Summit height: 29,035 feet (8,850
meters)
Nepal Name: Sagarmatha (the Mother Goddess)
Tibetan Name: Chomolungma (Goddess Mother of the World)
Stats (12/31/2000)
Summit count: 1314 people
Death count: 167 people
History:
(1841) Sir George Everest records location of Peak XV
(1856) first height measurement - 8840 meters high. (29,002 feet)
(1859) Peak XV renamed Mt. Everest
(1953) first summit - Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
| MountEverest.net |
| • News - (Russian) Denali winter climb |
50 Anniversary letter
- Edmund Hillary
Discovery
Ch - 5 women on Everest - March 2002;
All stories
dispatch
May 20 (last day) - ice breaks... |
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• 8000 meter Peaks
- Everest, K2, Kangchenjunga, Lhotse, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat, Annapurna I, Gasherbrum I, Broad Peak, Gasherbrum II, Shishapangma...
-- #9 - Nanga Parbat -
German 2001 expedition with pictures,
eg this
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• Expeditions
• Seven Summits
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Mt Everest,
Mt Aconcagua,
Denali (Mount McKinley),
Kilimanjaro,
Elbrus...
• Anatoli Boukreev - life and death
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Greenland 2002 pictures
- Story
Krzysztof Wielicki -
Makalu 2001 (EverestNews)
Carlos Buhler - click on My 10 Best for pictures, stories
Dave Hahn interview
stuff -
Everest pictures,
Michael Brown (check out the last (airport) picture)
Everest 2001 - (Mountain-Link expedition)
www.2001everest.com -
team,
daily updates,
photos
Mount Everest - 29,035 feet (8,850 m)
Ed Viesturs -
Everest storm 1996 (very brief)...
K2 - hardest to climb... biography... Photos,
1996 interview
- Ed's Annapurna 2002 - 8,091m (26,545ft)
Everything Everest -
Scott Fisher's Last Climb,
Everest storm 1996
Canadian
Everest 2000 - Q&A - why summit in May, Everest
Background - how tall, who first..
"Finn's
Journey" - Everest 2000 - cool static FLASH (on first and second
page)...... 1996_survivor-serious_exposure
(the third picture)
Everest 2000 - (Mountain-Link expedition)
Everest 2000, Quokka
- these sites don't exist at the moment, but hopefully will come back
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Gerry Roach's pictures - big mountains
Photo Galleries,
main website,
Great Interview
- read at least the end if not everything
National Geographic ADVENTURE magazine (April 2003) features "50 years on Everest"
- interesting stories of the first summit and other first and crazy events on Everest
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Last Updated:
Thu, September 1, 2005 19:38
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