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2 unusual facts about climber


Doai Station

The climb up the steps from the underground platform features at the start of the novel, NHK dramatization and movie versions of Climber's High by Hideo Yokoyama.

Mount Tanigawa

Climbing Tanigawadake is one of the main storylines in the novel Climber's High which has also been made into an NHK documentary in 2005 and a movie in 2008.


Aiguille du Dru

From 17–22 August 1955, the Italian climber Walter Bonatti climbed a difficult solo route on the south-west pillar of the Petit Dru (the Bonatti Pillar); this route – like many on the west face – no longer exists in its original state owing to rockfall, the scars of which remain clearly visible from the Chamonix valley.

Alex Puccio

Alex Puccio, born Alexandrea Elizabeth Cocca on 15 June 1989 in McKinney, Texas, is a professional climber specializing in bouldering.

Anderle

Aljaž Anderle (born 1973) is a prominent Slovenian mixed and ice climber

Apa Sherpa

Apa first reached the summit of Mount Everest on his fourth attempt, on May 10, 1990, with a New Zealand team led by climber Rob Hall along with Peter Hillary, son of Edmund Hillary.

Arved Fuchs

On December 30, 1989, he and the famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole without animal or motorised help, on skis, and with wind-assistance (parasail).

Bamford Edge

The first ascent of "Smoked Salmon", which is graded as E8 7b was made by British climber Johnny Dawes.

Carabiner

Use of the climbing carabiner was actually a logical consequence of the use of piton invented by Hans Fiechtl and tested by Hans Dülfer, although climbers as prestigious as Paul Preuss or Eugen Guido Lammer were opposed to any artificial process.

Centro Simón Bolívar Towers

On February 7, 1982, the climber Dan Goodwin scaled the outside of the towers using only his hands and feet.

Climbing Great Buildings

The team consists of the architect Dr Jonathan Foyle, the climber Lucy Creamer and camera operator Ian Burton, assisted by a rigging team.

Daniel Woods

On 19 June 2007, when he was traveling in the Rocky Mountain National Park in the area of Chaos Canyon, he made the first ascent of Jade, formerly named Green Project 45, a project he worked for several years with Dave Graham.

Dave MacLeod

MacLeod has also established impressive credentials in mixed climbing with ice axes and crampons, climbing Good Training for Something with Canadian climber Will Gadd at a grade of M12.

Dinas Cromlech

It was an important venue for a wave of new climbing, for example by Joe Brown (climber): "Cenotaph Corner" (1952, E1, with Doug Belshaw) and "Cemetery Gates" (1951, E1, with Don Whillans).

Edmund February

Named after one of the two climbers first confirmed to reach the summit of Everest, Edmund Hillary, and living in the shadow of Table Mountain, Edmund was destined to be a climber.

Erwin Emata

However, Mount Everest chronicler Elizabeth Hawley said on June 14, 2006 that another Filipino climber, Dale Abenojar, is the first to summit on May 15, two days before Leo Oracion.

Frederick Keel

In 1902 Keel married Dora Compton, the second daughter of the English-born German landscape painter and mountain climber, Edward Theodore Compton.

Hi, Society

Hi, Society focuses mainly on the growing relationship between Dan Humphrey (Penn Badgley) and Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively), the complex love-triangle between Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford), Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester), and the slow transformation of Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) from an outsider to a social climber.

Johann Santner

Johann Santner (21 April, 1840 in Sankt Jakob in Defereggen - 21 May, 1912 in Bozen) was a Tyrolean mountaineer and first climber to reach the summit of the Santnerspitze, which was later given his name in his honor, of the Schlern on 2 July, 1880.

Lee Sung-jae

In 2004 Lee portrayed a mountain climber in the big-budget adventure/melodrama Ice Rain, which was shot in the Canadian Rockies, then played a ballroom dancer in Dance with the Wind, Park Jeong-woo's directorial debut (Park wrote the screenplay for many of Kim Sang-jin's films).

Leopold König

However both these wins were eclipsed in September 2013 when he claimed his team's maiden Grand Tour victory when winning the mountain stage to Alto Pena Blancas after catching climber Igor Antón in the final 500 metres.

Little Cottonwood Canyon

The Lowes - George Lowe, Greg Lowe, and Jeff Lowe - came to prominence through the rest of the 60s and early 70s.

Luxor Obelisk

Without warning, in 1998 and 2000 French urban climber Alain "Spiderman" Robert, using only his bare hands and climbing shoes on his feet and with no safety devices, scaled the obelisk all the way to the top.

Maurice Herzog

Annapurna was not climbed again until 1970, when the French north face route was climbed by a British Army expedition, simultaneously with an ascent of the south face by an expedition led by British climber Chris Bonington.

McKeever

Ian McKeever (1970-2013), Irish Climber, 2007 broke World Speed Record for Climbing Seven Summits

Mount Arapiles

German climber Wolfgang Güllich's ascent of Punks in the Gym in April 1985 was major achievement.

Mount Blackburn

The first ascent of this summit was made in 1912 by Dora Keen and George Handy via the Kennicott Glacier (on the south side of the mountain) and East Face.

Mukkadal Dam

The mountain consists of soaring and lofty trees of Mesua ferrea, Bischofia javanica, Vitex Altissima to smaller trees of Dillini a species of festooning climber, shrubs, valuable herbs, variety of orchids, two types of canes and many indigenous palms and cycads.

Neacola Mountains

Noted climber Fred Beckey visited the range in the early 1970s; in 1991, when he was "spiritual leader" of the expedition which made the first ascent of Mount Neacola; and again in 2004.

Nilgiri Himal

Nilgiri North was first ascended in October 1962 by The Netherlands Himalayan Expedition, the team leader was a famous French climber Lionel Terray.

Osprey Packs

The world's first blind mountain climber to summit Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, used an Osprey backpack, the Aether 60, and is pictured with it on the cover of Time Magazine's June 18th, 2001 issue.

Owen Jones

Owen Glynne Jones (1867–1899), British rock-climber and mountaineer

Oxford University Mountaineering Club

In 1988, Stephen Venables, a member of the club from 1972 to 1975, became the first British climber to reach the summit of Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

Dallas Skyline Climber allows kids to traverse a miniature Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, climb a playground made of tiny Dallas landmarks that includes the Dallas County Courthouse, Reunion Tower, the Magnolia Hotel, Thanksgiving Tower and Neiman Marcus building.

Puncak Jaya

The now highest Carstensz Pyramid summit was not climbed until 1962, by an expedition led by the Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer (of Seven Years in Tibet fame, and climber of the Eiger North Face) with three other expedition members – Philip Temple, Russell Kippax and Albertus Huizenga.

Quercus coccifera

It is sometimes accompanied by other plant species of the same size and climber plants such as asparagus or zarzaparrilla.

Rick Sylvester

Rick Sylvester (Born April 3, 1942) is a climber and was a Hollywood stuntman, most famous for his BASE jump using skis and a Union Flag parachute from Canada's Mount Asgard for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976.

Scream of Stone

The movie has elements drawn from the history of the supposed first conquest of the summit of Cerro Torre in 1959, by the Italian climber Cesare Maestri and his partner, the Austrian Toni Egger, who died during the descent.

Slogen

Later on that year it was climbed by the famous climber and alpine explorer William Cecil Slingsby.

Squinobal

Oreste Squinobal (b. 1943), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

Susan Ershler

Susan Ershler (Susan Ellerman; born in March) is a public speaker, business executive, climber of Mount Everest, and author.

The Anti-Pamela; or Feign’d Innocence Detected

Much like the more popular Shamela by Henry Fielding, the female protagonist is portrayed as a social climber, although Haywood's character is much less licentious than Fielding's Shamela.

The Dark Glow of the Mountains

It is about an expedition made by freestyle mountain climber Reinhold Messner and his partner Hans Kammerlander to climb Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one trip without returning to base camp.

Tom Patey

He climbed extensively in Scotland, (making the first winter traverse of the Cuillin ridge with Hamish MacInnes, David Crabbe and Brian Robertson in 1965), as well as achieving notable ascents in the Alps and the Karakoram including the first ascent of the Muztagh Tower (7273m) with John Hartog, Joe Brown and Ian McNaught-Davis in 1956 and Rakaposhi (7788m) in 1958 with Mike Banks.

He first became interested in climbing while he was in the Scouts, but it was at the University of Aberdeen, where he trained as a doctor, that he first revealed his full talent as an exploratory climber, captaining the Lairig Club.

Torre Egger

In 1976, John Bragg, Jim Donini and Jay Wilson from the United States climbed Torre Egger by climbing first to the col between the peak and Cerro Torre, the Col of Conquest, and then up the ridge to the peak.

Wenger

The Titanium Line is a product suited to the challenges a speed climber like Ueli Steck faces.

Whillans

Don Whillans (1933–1985), British rock climber and mountaineer.

William Maurice Brown

William Maurice Brown, Lt. Colonel, Squadron Leader, recipient of Britain's Order of British Empire, observer (Extra Ordinary) of the United Nations, New Zealand government minister, mountain climber, shooter, boxer, teacher, administrator, the founder of Faujdarhat Cadet College had left his disciples for eternal peace but his legend will continue to live.


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