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New Meaning To Trad-Style Climbing...
A group of Iranian women have successfully summited the country's third highest peak wearing traditional Islamic dress
05 September 2002
Porter Clothing Project Gets Own Web Site
A programme which supplies loan clothing to inadequately equipped trekking porters in Nepal now has NGO status and its own web site
23 August 2002
Plane Crash In Nepal Trekking Area Kills 18
A plane en route to Pokhara at the start of the classic Annapurna trek has crashed killing 18 people including one Briton
22 August 2002
Glacier Gives Up Body Of First K2 Casualty
Some 63 years after he died alone on K2, Dudley Wolfe's body has finally emerged from the melting snows
30 July 2002
Ketchup Calls In Mountain Chopper
That
tomato-sauce H was excellent. It was like DayGlo' - makes you wonder what sort of additives they're using....
24 July 2002
Houlding's Patagonian Epic In His Own Words
'Perhaps the worst decision I've ever made on a rock climb' he says of the foot-crunching misjudgment that put his climbing career in jeopardy
23 July 2002
El Niño Could Be Worse Than Predicted
The widely predicted El Niño in the Pacific could be more severe than was previously thought say scientists
27 June 2002
Mont Blanc Tunnel Protesters Gassed
Environmentalist protesting against this week's re-opening of the Mt Blanc tunnel to all classes of HGV have reportedly been tear-gassed by riot police
27 June 2002
Devon hiker dies in Alps
The body of a man from north Devon has been recovered after 2-day search
14 June 2002
Polar trekking women talk to radio 4
Pole trekkers are pick of the week
13 June 2002
Scot completes Everest marathon for charity
Edinburgh lecturer raises lots of dosh for good causes at the ninth Everest marathon
12 June 2002
Wedding party blown off mountain
Difficult conditions spoil wedding plans, but other climbers not so lucky
12 June 2002
Mountain Rescue Chopper Crashes On Live TV
A helicopter involved in rescuing injured climbers on Oregon's Mount Hood lost control and crashed seriously injuring at least one crew member. Three climbers died
31 May 2002
Kidney Climber Aims For Mont Blanc
A dialysis-dependent climber is planning to climb Mont Blanc dialysising as he goes before paragliding back to civilization
22 May 2002
54 Climbers Summit Everest
... or was it 55? Whatever the truth, there were certainly a lot of climbers on the roof of the world last night. A record in fact.
16 May 2002
Brit marks one-third of epic 36,000m trip
Those feet are made for walking
15 May 2002
British Climber Dies In NZ
Updated
the young British climber apparently killed in fall on Mount Cook has been named
14 May 2002
No Hillary Tenzing Replay
Tenzing's grandson goes for the summit, but Hillary's son is a couple of days behind him
14 May 2002
Hinkes Summits Annapurna
'It's one of the most amazing mountains I have climbed - the scenery is awesome. I'm exhausted and overwhelmed to have achieved all this so quickly'
09 May 2002
Stuck At Home?
Not going away? Here's a few ideas for those of you stuck at home for the weekend. Put that lager down!
03 May 2002
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