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The Krakauer Syndrome

Must there always be blame when a climber dies on a mountain? I was more than a little upset by something I read on a climbing website recently. This had been the intention of the article, but I was...

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8 useful web tools for expedition base camp

Well, it’s nearly that time of year again when I escape from the real world to spend a couple of months in a tent on the side of a mountain. At the end of the month I head for the … Continue reading →

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Following the Everesters

This time last year I was lying in a tent on the north side of Everest, listening to a deafening wind pound against the nylon beside my head. Every spring a few hundred people seek to share my...

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An introduction to ExplorersWeb, the adventurers’ website on a new journey

I first heard about ExplorersWeb during my first 8,000m peak expedition to Pakistan in 2009. It didn’t occur to me that the media might be reporting on my movements, but that was essentially what was...

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Nirmal Purja’s ascent of all fourteen 8,000m peaks: why is it controversial?

Every so often a story emerges in the world of mountaineering that is so big that it makes it into the popular press alongside stories about Brexit, Brexit and even Brexit. Last week was one of those...

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Ojos del Salado and the Puña de Atacama: the videos

The adventurers’ website ExplorersWeb has been doing a series of blog posts about 100 adventure films to watch during lockdown. Astonishingly, despite being up to part 4 in the series, and having...

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Everest and COVID-19: climbers and operators need to come clean

If you watched Alan Arnette’s interview with the well-known British climber and mountain guide Kenton Cool on Sunday, you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s a good year to be climbing Everest....

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Dispatches from Everest

I leave for Nepal today, from where we’ll drive across the border into Tibet. We should arrive at Everest Base Camp on the north side in about a week’s time. I’ll have a satellite connection at base...

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