mountain-climbers
Seven bodies were located following a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of Italy, the Associated Press reports. The bodies were found after a mountain runner said he saw what looked to be part of a helicopter while on Mount Cusna on Saturday morning. Air crews then went to the scene and located the first five […]
A climber who was descending Mount Hood in Oregon fell 500 feet to his death this weekend. The 63-year-old, whose name was not shared by authorities, was climbing the mountain with his adult son on Sunday during “an unusually busy weekend for climbing” at the volcano when he fell from an elevation of 10,500 feet around 9 a.m., the Clackamas […]
Selena Gomez is set to star as Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in the Peruvian mountaineer and social entrepreneur’s biopic, per The Hollywood Reporter. The film, In the Shadow of the Mountain, is based on the upcoming memoir of the same name written by mountaineer Vásquez-Lavado. Vásquez-Lavado was not only the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest, but she was also the first openly […]
Nepali crews of sherpas have pulled over 24 thousand pounds of garbage and four bodies off of Mount Everest in the last two months. The expedition to remove garbage and bodies came as climbers were complaining of the amount of waste left on the mountain. The team of 20 sherpas was able to pull five […]
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