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8 unusual facts about mountaineering


Cruas Nuclear Power Plant

Author of the mural on the Tignes Dam, Jean-Marie Pierret was selected to design the painting, 9 mountaineers helped to actually paint the structure.

Karl Prusik

Karl Prusik (b. 19 May 1896 in Vienna; d. 8 May 1961 in Perchtoldsdorf bei Wien) (also spelled Prussik) was an Austrian mountaineer, with Czech origins, who is known as the inventor of the prusik knot.

Ludwig Gramminger

Ludwig Gramminger, also known as "Wiggerl" Gramminger (June 11, 1906 – August 28, 1997) was a German Alpinist and one of pioneers of modern mountain rescue techniques.

Mountaineering

With the advent of cheaper, long-haul air travel, mountaineering holidays in the Greater Ranges are now undertaken much more frequently and ascents of even Everest and Vinson Massif (the highest mountain in Antarctica) are offered as a "package holiday".

The precursor of winter climbing was famous for its first winter crossing the main ridge of the Tatras - Andrzej Zawada, in winter 1973 along with Tadeusz Piotrowski scored Noshaq.

Nyanga, Zimbabwe

Nyanga is primarily a tourist town and is a popular tourist destination with its fishing, golf courses, mountain hikes and holiday resorts.

Simon Binks

Mountain climber, Lincoln Hall, quotes lyrics from Binks' song in his book, White Limbo: The first Australian climb of Mt Everest (1985).

Žabljak

Mountaineering - Durmitor's conditions are appropriate for this sport.


100 Famous Japanese Mountains

Compared to other modern essays on Japanese mountains such as Mountaineering and Exploration in the Japanese Alps by Walter Weston, the book is short.

2007 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering

It had the official partnerships of Otari village authorities, Tsugaike Kōgen Ski Resort, Nagano mountaineering federation and other groups.

Aiguilles Rouges National Nature Reserve

A site at the Col des Montets mountain pass was chosen, In 1971 with the support of mountaineer Maurice Herzog, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and Vallorcine created the la réserve intercommunale du col des Montets (Intercommunal reserve of the Col des Montets).

Al Alvarez

He has also written on divorce (Life After Marriage), dreams (Night), and the oil industry (Offshore), as well as his hobbies of poker (The Biggest Game In Town) and mountaineering (Feeding the Rat, a profile of his frequent climbing partner Mo Anthoine).

Alex Harz

Alex began his high-altitude mountaineering endeavors in 2007 and has successfully summitted some of the world's most coveted peaks, including Mt. Rainier, Cerro Aconcagua, Mt. McKinley, etc.

David Lim

He returned to mountaineering, and since 1999, has led more than 15 expeditions, including the first all-Singapore ascent of Argentina's Aconcagua (6962m), and the world's third solo of Ojos del Salado, the highest volcano in the world (6893m).

Dee Molenaar

Dee Molenaar (born June 21, 1918) is an American mountaineer, author and artist from Burley, Washington.

Friedrich Kiel

Kiel's hobby was mountaineering and at age 60, he climbed Europe's second highest peak, the Monte Rosa, on the Swiss-Italian border.

Friedrich Parrot

On 27 September 1829, Parrot, a pioneer of scientific mountaineering, whilst professor of physics of the University of Dorpat, reached the summit of Mount Ararat (5,137 m) with Khachatur Abovian (the Armenian writer and national public figure) and three other students.

Gerspunken

The duo were familiar with each other from their youth in the Tyrolean town of Mayrhofen, and had worked together for a short period at the Peter Habeler Mountaineering Academy during the summer of 2000.

Gianfelice Rocca

A keen yachtsman and mountaineer, in 1970 Rocca took part in the expedition organized by the “Ragni di Lecco” mountaineering group to explore the Cerro Torre in Patagonia, regarded as one the world’s most inaccessible peaks.

Great Baikal Trail

At the same time, two organizations – the Federation of Sports Tourism and Mountaineering of the Republic of Buryatia and Earth Island Institute's Baikal Watch in San Francisco, USA – were awarded a joint grant from the Foundation for Russian American Economic Cooperation for the an exchange program to share experience in trail construction.

H. Adams Carter

He continued to participate in mountaineering expeditions, including one to survey Ojos del Salado (6,893 m) in 1956, several trips to the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, and a second expedition to Nanda Devi in 1976, which he co-led with Louis Reichardt and Willi Unsoeld.

Himalayan Mountaineering Institute

The first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary sparked a keen interest in establishing mountaineering as a well-respected endeavour for people in the region.

Himalayas

Isserman, Maurice and Weaver, Stewart, Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes.

Horia Colibășanu

In 2009 Horia received the “Spirit of Mountaineering” award for his role in the rescue operation of Iñaki Ochoa de Olza.

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.

John B. West

As a physiologist, he joined Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan scientific and mountaineering expedition in 1960-61.

Kilcornan

More recently Kilcornan is known as the birthplace of mountaineer Ger McDonnell who became the first Irishman to summit K2 in August 2008 but went missing along with 10 others on the decent in the worst single accident in the history of K2 Mountaineering,all were later confirmed dead.

Laurie Skreslet

Laurie Skreslet (born October 25, 1949) is a mountaineer best known for his ascent of Mount Everest.

Leysin

Leysin is also the home to a number of international schools: Leysin American School, Kumon Leysin Academy of Switzerland, Schiller International University American College of Switzerland, Swiss Hotel Management School, CP Language Institute, International School of Mountaineering, Voxlingua Language School.

Mariusz Wargocki

He started ski mountaineering in 1999 and competed first in a race in Štrbské Pleso in 2005.

Mount Everest Committee

Although Mount Everest as a mountaineering objective had been on the horizon of British alpinists for some time – Clinton Thomas DentC.

Mount Guiting-Guiting

In May 1982, under the leadership of Arturo T. Valdez, a joint team from the Bacolod-based Philippine Mountaineering Society (PMS) and the University of the Philippines (UP), the team assaulted the mountain, the attempt of which was to be the first in history.

Mount Zdarsky

It is named for Mathias Zdarsky, the Austrian pioneer exponent of ski-mountaineering, inventor of the first dependable ski binding, and author of one of the earliest skiing manuals.

Nangpa La shooting incident

It is visible from nearby Cho Oyu and its BC (Base Camp) and ABC (Advanced Base Camp), used by mountaineering expeditions.

Nant Ffrancon Pass

The original road through the Nant Ffrancon was constructed by Lord Penrhyn in the late 18th century, and at Capel Curig in 1801 he built a coaching inn, which is now Plas y Brenin, the UK National Mountaineering Centre.

Oxford University Mountaineering Club

The Oxford University Mountaineering Club (OUMC) was founded in 1909 by Arnold Lunn, then a Balliol undergraduate.

Patrik Nordin

He started ski mountaineering in 1997 and competed first in the Swedish Cup race in Åre in the same year.

Pierre Gignoux

Together with Stéphane Brosse he has held the ski mountaineering record on the Mont Blanc since May 30, 2003 with a total time of 5 hours 15 minutes 47 seconds.

Robert Antonioli

Antonioli was born in Sondalo, started ski mountaineering in 2004, and took part in his first competition race in 2006.

Sainik School, Amaravathinagar

Football, hockey, volleyball, basketball, cricket, athletics, cross-country running, swimming, gymnastics, canoeing, cycling, horse riding, mountaineering, parasailing, trekking (hiking), obstacles course, rifle shooting, boxing, NCC,karate,music clubs, literary clubs, theater arts, elocution, photography, fine arts, craftwork, philately, aero-modeling, ship-modeling, Marching band, Choir

Schoening Peak

The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Peter K. Schoening (1936-2004), member of the 1966–67 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Vinson, the summit of Antarctica, and other high mountains in the Sentinel Range.

Sergey Kofanov

In 2008 was awarded the main world awards in mountaineering - the American award Golden Piton and European Grolla d`Or for the best ascent of 2007 (peak Jannu, 7710 m., Nepal).

Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering.

Song Seung-heon

In 2004 Song appeared in two films, but neither was judged to be a success: Ice Rain, shot in the Canadian Rockies, failed to enthuse viewers with its mixture of mountaineering and melodrama, while He Was Cool, based on an internet novel by Guiyeoni, proved unable to compete with Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and other films from the 2004 summer season.

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

It is a parody of the non-fictional chronicles of mountaineering expeditions (notably H. W. Tilman's account of the ascent of Nanda Devi and Maurice Herzog's book Annapurna chronicling the first ascent of Annapurna in Nepal) that were popular during the 1950s, as many of the world's highest peaks were climbed for the first time.

Tom Hornbein

In his book Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer writes that "Hornbein's and Unsoeld's ascent was--and continues to be--deservedly hailed as one of the great feats in the annals of mountaineering."

University of Essex Mountaineering Club

The University of Essex Mountaineering Club (UeMC) is based at the University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom.

Vanessa O'Brien

Having trekked to Mount Everest base camp and reached the summits of a number of notable mountains, including two of the world's fourteen 8,000 meter peaks (Shishapangma and Cho Oyu), she decided to build on her passion for mountaineering and set herself the challenge of achieving the Explorer's Grand Slam.

Viktor Frankl

On 29 July 1943, Frankl organized a closed event for the Scientific Society at Theresienstadt, and with the help of Leo Baeck he offered a series of open lectures, including "Sleep and Sleep Disturbances", "Body and Soul", "Medical Care of the Soul", "Psychology of Mountaineering", "How to keep my nerves healthy?", "Medical ministry", "Existential Problems in Psychotherapy", and "Social Psychotherapy".

Yamnuska Mountain Adventures

:Yamnuska has supplied mountaineering and rock instructors for the British Army for 14 years (in 2010) and provides instruction and logistical support for the Royal Canadian Army Cadets - Rocky Mountain National Army Cadet Summer Training Centre (RMNACSTC) in the Canadian Rockies.

YRC

Yorkshire Ramblers' Club (YRC), a senior mountaineering and caving club based in Yorkshire, England


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