“Companies have hijacked Everest. VIPs go up for $210,000”
Sebastián Álvaro (Madrid, 1950) ha dedicado más de tres cuartas partes de su vida a escalar cientos de montañas de los seis continentes, algunas en los lugares más recónditos de la Tierra. Durante una época lo hizo para el galardonado programa de TVE ‘Al filo de lo imposible’, pero incluso ahora, sigue haciéndolo siempre con una […]
They find remains of the first man who tried to climb Everest now 100 years ago
BarcelonaJust one hundred years ago, on June 8, 1924, the British climber Andrew Sandy Irvine and his companion George Mallory were facing the last leg of their climb to Mount Everest. They wanted to be the first people to climb the highest mountain on the planet. That day, however, would be the last time they […]
Mission Everest: Strong wind affects German extreme mountaineer
Dhe German extreme mountaineer Jost Kobusch has a big, dangerous goal: he wants to be the first person to climb the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, all alone, in winter, when it is coldest and windiest, and without oxygen tanks. The 29-year-old, who originally comes from Borgholzhausen near Bielefeld, reported that he was […]