Himalaya 2009 fall season kick-off with a huge spring flashback.

(MountEverest.net) Charging head over heels into the Pakistan summer season we never really wrapped the spring in Nepal. With a brand new fall list of expeditions in the works for this week (pls email us if you’re going), let’s take a look at where we left off last. Here goes an extensive spring 2009 Everest [...]

Zakopane – 5th Mountain Film Festival. /Version english and polish/

Mark your calendars! 2009 Zakopane – 5th Mountain Film Festival 10th to 13th September 2009 in Zakopane, Poland. Film & Foto Competition 5th Mountain Film Festival. Zakopane Mountain Film Festival Association announces the following competitions: 5th International Mountain Film Competition and 3rd International Mountain Photography Competition ‘Space of Life’. The deadline for sending all entries [...]

Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /29/ – Week in Review.

They say that for a happy life we should dance as if nobody is watching and sing as if no one were listening. It took almost losing her husband for Nives Meroi to realize that that’s exactly how she wants to climb. Last week was packed with other interesting stories; what is a success? And [...]

Karakoram Summer 2009 expeditions wrap-up : Season’s end preliminary 2009 Karakoram climbing report.

(K2Climb.net) Here goes a preliminary Karakoram summer 2009 8000+ summits report compiled by ExWeb’s contributor Brazilian writer and chronicler Rodrigo Granzotto Peron for AdventureStats. Note the very few summits on G2 and K2, and zero summits on Broad Peak. Fewer climbers, bad climbing conditions – but also an improved watch of true summits all contributed [...]