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Adventure Travel Show Hits Manchester This Weekend
The Daily Telegraph Adventure Travel Show makes its way oop north to convince flat-capped whippet owners that they're not second-class citizens after all, er, are we...

29 October 2003
Machu Picchu Visitor Numbers Could Be Slashed
The number of tourists permitted to visit the lost city at the head of the legendary Inca Trail may be halved to protect the ruins from damage

29 October 2003
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British Climber In New Zealand Mountain Epic
A British climber has been trapped on Mount Cook for three nights after becoming ill, possibly with hypothermia. Bad conditions have grounded helicopters

24 October 2003
Disabled Brit Heads For Everest
A disabled Briton is aiming to reach 20,000 feet on the north side of Everest despite a previous accident on the mountain which almost cost him his life...

17 October 2003
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Observer Discovers Inca Trail...
Last week's Observer Travel section included an account of Peru's classic Inca Trail trek by eco-political writer Will Hutton, worth a quick coffee-break browse we reckon

15 October 2003
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Mummified Leg's Foot Size Too Small To Be Yeti...
A mystery mummified leg found by mountaineers in Siberia is unlikely to be a yeti because it only takes a size 36 boot say Russian scientists rather improbably...

09 October 2003
Trapped Brit Climbers Saved By Text Message Alert
Two British alpinists marooned on an alpine ridge by blizzard conditions were rescued after texting friends in the UK who, in turn, alerted Swiss rescue teams

07 October 2003
Ugandan Glaciers Melting Too
Scientists visiting the Rwenzori mountains in Uganda for the first time in ten years have discovered worrying evidence of glacial recession.

02 October 2003
Kidnapped Brit Trekker Escapes From Captors
A teenage Briton held by Colombian guerillas escaped by jumping into a ravine and walking to safety some 12 days after being kidnapped

25 September 2003
Nepal suffers once again
Rebel disruption affects capital and tourism in the weeks since ceasefire breakdown

18 September 2003
'Tibet's Sacred Mountain To Get Ring Road'
The Observer reports that the Chinese are planning to build a road around Mount Kailash, a holy pilgrimage circuit and increasingly popular trek...

15 September 2003
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Mountain Trekkers Kidnapped In Colombia
Eight trekkers, including two Britons, have reportedly been kidnapped while hiking in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta on the northern coast of Colombia

15 September 2003
Bonington's Latest Trip
Sir Chris Bonington's latest expedition was an adventurous trek in the Himalaya with a 5,000-metre peak thrown in for light entertainment

10 September 2003
Violence Flares In Nepal As Ceasefire Ends
There's been renewed fighting between the government and rebels after Maoist insurgents ended their eight-month ceasefire with the government last week.

02 September 2003
Mont Blanc 'Closed'...
Heatwave conditions in the Alps have led to a massive rise in objective danger on many routes with guides no longer taking bookings for the mountain - and that's just the start of it...

18 August 2003
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Nepal Tourism Starting To Recover
The number of foreign visitors to Nepal is rising again in the wake of January's ceasefire between Government and Maoist guerillas, but there's still a long way to go

05 August 2003
Up Everest By Motorcycle...
You're small, you're blonde, you're Swedish, so why not ride a motorcycle as far up Everest as you can? Oh, and you're environmentally aware too...

29 July 2003
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Climbers Missing On Alpamayo Found Dead
An avalanche has killed at least eight climbers near the summit of one of Peru's most beautiful mountains, Alpamayo which reaches just under 6,000 metres

25 July 2003
Melting Alps Trigger Epic Matterhorn Rockfall
Over 70 climbers had to be rescued from the Matterhorn when colossal rockfalls swept the mountain. Gradual melting of the alpine permafrost is to blame say scientists

21 July 2003
Catalonian Female Climber Aiming For K2
Ed Douglas interviews Spanish climber Araceli Segarra for the Observer as she prepares to head for the world's second highest mountain - no living woman has summited...

08 July 2003
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