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unusual facts about mountain climbing



Everest '82

Everest '82 tells the true story of the first Canadians to climb Mount Everest.


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Dave Page

Page has made many historic mountain climbing ascents among contemporaries Fred Beckey and other notable cascade climbers of the 20th century; these included ascents in the Himalayas.

Edward Bramwell Clarke

Walter Weston, introduced the sport of mountain climbing to Japan

Jacques Herbrand

In July of that year he was mountain-climbing in the French Alps with two friends when he fell to his death in the granite mountains of Massif des Écrins.

Junko Tabei

After obtaining a degree in English literature from Showa Women's University where she was a member of the mountain climbing club, Tabei formed the "Ladies Climbing Club: Japan (LCC)" in 1969.

Palauig, Zambales

Palauig is home to the mountain climbing resort of Mount Tapulao.

Riobamba

Riobamba is the trekking and mountain climbing capital of Ecuador and is a base to climb Carihuairazo, Chimborazo, Sangay, El Altar, and the Lost Pyramid of Puñay.

W. Maynard Sparks

They had three sons: Lynn (a clergy member of the Rocky Mountain Annual Conference of the U.M. Church, who died in a mountain climbing accident in 1978), Fred of Elk Grove, California, and Robert of Lebanon, Pennsylvania.