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By Paavan MATHEMA Katmandou (AFP) - Il y a dix ans, une avalanche sur l'Everest a enseveli seize guides locaux, braquant les projecteurs sur les dangers considérables auxquels les sherpas népalais sont confrontés pour permettre à des étrangers fortunés de réaliser leurs rêves d'alpinisme. Sans leur travail, essentiel pour tracer les voies d'escalade, fixer les cordes, réparer les échelles et transporter le lourd matériel en altitude, peu d'alpinistes pourraient atteindre le sommet le plus haut du monde. Le 18 avril 2014, un mur de neige s'est abattu sur les Népalais qui, dans l'obscurité glaci...
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Kathmandu (AFP) - A US mountaineer has died on Everest in the fourth fatality on the world's highest peak this climbing season. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, was on an acclimatisation rotation at around 6,400 metres (21,000 feet) when he died on Monday, his expedition organiser said. "He was feeling unwell and passed away at Camp 2. Efforts are underway to bring (back) his body," Pasang Tshering Sherpa of Beyul Adventure told AFP. "We are trying to send a helicopter but it is snowing and the weather is not favourable," he said. Beyul Adventure is a local partner of US-based expedition organiser Inte...
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Kathmandu (AFP) - Mountaineer Akash Neggi is fully prepared to take on the world's highest mountain -- after spending several weeks sleeping in a tent in his living room in New Jersey. As Nepal battles Covid-19, a growing number of climbers are using oxygen-deprivation tents ahead of their expeditions to reduce exposure to the coronavirus by cutting down the length of their Himalayan adventure. Mount Everest aspirants typically spend eight days trekking from Kathmandu to base camp at 5,364 metres (17,598 feet), using the journey to acclimatise to high-altitude conditions. But this year, more t...
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Islamabad (AFP) - A missing Russian-American climber died on a mountain while preparing to scale the world's 12th-highest peak, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, a spokesman for the expedition said Tuesday. Alex Goldfarb pushed on alone when his teammate failed to persuade him to give up during an acclimatising mission, ahead of a bid to scale the nearby 8,051-metre (26,414-feet) Broad Peak in the Karakoram range on the Chinese border. "We are deeply saddened to have lost our climbing partner and friend," said Laszlo Pinter, spokesman for the Broad Peak Winter Expedi...
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