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ExplorersWeb, the original climbing, exploration and adventure community. Reporting on polar, high altitude and extreme environment adventure news. explorersweb.com Joined March 2009

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38 minutes ago

Vladislav Terzyul of Ukraine is considered his country's first climber to complete all 14 8,000m peaks. He disappeared on Makalu in 2004. explorersweb.com/flashback-vlad…

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10 hours ago

The Jane Goodall Institute confirmed today that the world-renowned primatologist passed away peacefully in her sleep while on a speaking tour in California. explorersweb.com/jane-goodall-d…

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13 hours ago

Andrews kept going to a little beyond 8,000m, wallowing in deep powder snow, until it became obvious that he was simply not going to break any record. explorersweb.com/tyler-andrews-…

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16 hours ago

Their huge size is peculiar and has forced scientists to throw out their pet theories on how planetary lava tunnels form. explorersweb.com/giant-lava-tun…

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20 hours ago

Clad entirely in leather, Leatherman roamed from town to town on the same route for over 30 years. Nearly 150 years after his death, he remains an enigma. explorersweb.com/where-did-he-c…

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20 hours ago

Normally, boulderers climb a couple of feet off the ground, but Red Bull athlete Domen Škofic completed a V11 on the external body of an airplane. explorersweb.com/watch-red-bull…

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2 days ago

Kilian Jornet is keeping the same incredible pace in California as he did in Colorado. Just Mt. Shasta to go. He will likely finish all 72 peaks this week. explorersweb.com/kilian-storms-…

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2 days ago

High in the Andes, a tiny surprise awaited scientists who had come to find an obscure species of squirrel. What they found instead was far more intriguing. explorersweb.com/new-high-altit…

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2 days ago

Although leaf peeping is not as big in the Rockies as in New England, so many now flock to view the larch trees that the season is called Larch Madness. explorersweb.com/larch-madness/

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2 days ago

With Manaslu now quiet except for one team trying a new route, the main action has switched to Dhaulagiri. Some summited over the weekend, more are to come. explorersweb.com/dhaulagiri-sum…

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3 days ago

The Spanish climber summited faster than expected, but getting down was too much for his oft-injured legs to handle. In the end, he took a helicopter down. explorersweb.com/carlos-soria-s…

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3 days ago

Most of the births occurred at Argentinian and Chilean bases in Antarctica, at a time when those countries sought to strengthen their territorial claims. explorersweb.com/born-in-antarc…

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3 days ago

Botswana's Karowe mine just produced a record-breaking 2,492-carat diamond, the largest unearthed in over a century. explorersweb.com/its-as-big-as-…

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3 days ago

Benjamin Vedrines and Nicolas Jean have achieved the first ascent of Anidesh Chuli (6,808m) while preparing for their technical Jannu north face attempt. explorersweb.com/french-aces-ba…

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4 days ago

In the autumn of 1988, a team of Slovak climbers set out to tackle Everest’s Southwest Face in alpine style. The groundbreaking climb ended in tragedy. explorersweb.com/looking-back-t…

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4 days ago

The best outdoor links of the past seven days, from coasteering to a first on the Matterhorn to two deaths on California's Mt. Shasta. explorersweb.com/adventure-link…

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5 days ago

The strange, bloody Jersey Shore shark attacks inspiring the first summer blockbuster. But we still don't actually know what was behind them. explorersweb.com/we-still-dont-…

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5 days ago

Alpinists Matteo Della Bordella and Leo Gheza attempt to complete the iconic Fitz Roy Traverse in Patagonia. explorersweb.com/weekend-warm-u…

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6 days ago

Fifty years ago, in 1975, Soria was on the first successful Spanish expedition to Manaslu but was not part of the summit team. Today, he reached the top. explorersweb.com/on-manaslu-86-…

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6 days ago

On September 5, 65-year-old James Baxter stepped into the Indian Ocean to mark the end of his 119-day journey from Namibia to Tanzania. explorersweb.com/british-advent…