After Annapurna+Dhaulagiri in 2023, Polish Bartek Ziemski and Oswald R. Pereira are returning to the Himalayas to climb and (Bartek) ski down Kangchenjunga and Makalu. That really is a cool expedition!! Here's a short interview:
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A day as good as any other to remind readers that the headlines of my stories on ExplorersWeb are NOT my call.

No matter the deads, the critical comments or its increasingly bad fame for crowds, pollution and unskilled climbers . Everest only gets more popular every season.
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Local climbers closer to global high altitude achievements.
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The first 8000er in full summit push is, one more year, Annapurna. How much things have changed... Yet, wishing a safe ascent and descent to the (around 50) climbers, local and foreign.
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More for First Ascents:. 📸Lakpa Dendi
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Good to see Valery around again, with big plans.
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'Trascendió' que una grieta bloquea a los Ice Doctors en la cascada de hielo del #Everest ... 'Me lo trascendió' personalmente Dawa Steven Sherpa. Shame on your bad journalism Desnivel . Here's my scoop Friday; the others' is just copying without quoting.…

For those Everest climbers hoping for a straightforward route across the Khumbu Icefall... I am sorry 🙄

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A guide to the NE ridge route of Everest, as it finally open again to foreign expeditions. All the details, camp by camp. Yhanks to Adrian Ballinger of Adrian Ballinger for the insight!
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More than one in three climbers experienced cardiac arrhythmias during the ascent from base camp to the summit of Mount Everest. Find out more about the SUMMIT study JAMA Cardiology jamanetwork.com/journals/jamac…? Everest Today Stephanie Geiger Amy Woodyatt Alan Arnette Angela Benavides

Those tagging their Annapurna climb as on 'the most dangerous of the 14x8000'ers' will have to look for something else. Like, in the times when top climbers considered the south face as an option, and rookies simply didn't consider venturing on Annapurna.
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Big Everest teams usually have their expedition doctor and insurance, but these guys attend to the local workers, the most vulnerable. They are an emergency clinic, but the health issues related to high-altitude working are much wider.
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When I researched Tirich Mir, I was surprised at the little info available about routes & climbing features. Funny, it was one of the first mountain names I read as a child, in old adventure books. It's all still about demons, legends & unsafe places. Still sounds so adventurous!…

Ahn and Woo are S. Korean alpinists not interested in Everest, but in two unclimbed faces of 6000ers around the corner:
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A story to read between the lines. Also, interesting reflections by Mingma G, about the scars of altitude on veteran Sherpa guides.
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The latest by Bernadette McDonald. Many untold stories see the light and others -- some of them I covered for ExWeb as they happened -- are told with different voices and as seen from different eyes.
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