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Mountains unclimbed
Category: Sports and Recreation > Outdoors Asked by: macaonghus-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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21 May 2004 05:48 PDT
Expires: 29 May 2004 02:49 PDT Question ID: 349898 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2938596.stm Edmund Hillary says there are mountains more difficult than Everest, which are yet to be climbed. Which ones? |
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Re: Mountains unclimbed
From: nancydrew-ga on 21 May 2004 10:35 PDT |
I don't think he had any specifically in mind but was perhaps speaking more about possibilities. However, K2 has ofeten been described as being harder to climb than Everest. You can read about it here: http://www.jerberyd.com/climbing/stories/k2/ |
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From: pinkfreud-ga on 21 May 2004 11:18 PDT |
"K2 is the second highest mountain on Earth, but it's also the most beautiful, most dangerous and, along with Gasherbrum IV and Cerro Torre, most technically difficult - far, far more than Everest." http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/4749/rtbtgs.txt |
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From: bobbie7-ga on 21 May 2004 11:25 PDT |
According to the following articles Kangchenjunga and Hkakabo Razi are more diffucult to climb that Everest. ?Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world. Although it is only 270 metres lower than Everest it is a much harder mountain to climb. It lies at the eastern extreme of the Himalayan range, on the border between India and Nepal.? ?Kangchenjunga lies at the eastern extreme of the Himalaya it is exposed to very bad weather conditions, in particular winds of 300 mph or more. It is also a technically difficult mountain to climb, much harder than Everest, which is only 250m higher, and possibly as hard as K2 which is only 12m higher. There are no easy routes up Kangchenjunga; all faces have serious avalanche and rockfall dangers and very difficult terrain.? http://www.bluedome.co.uk/Challenge8000/kanchenjunga1.html Hkakabo Razi ?O'Neill will climb and ski Myanmar's 19,296-foot Hkakabo Razi, near the China-India border, in fall 2004. "It's only been climbed once, by a Japanese mountaineer who said it was harder than Everest," says O'Neill. "Who knows if we can ski it, but we might as well try." ? http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200312/200312_xx_4.html |
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From: leli-ga on 21 May 2004 11:40 PDT |
" . . . The world's full of climbers, and the realm of unexplored, unclimbed peaks is shrinking rapidly." In other words, he who blurts out his dream ascent is only inviting the world to spoil the party. It's no secret, however, that Lowe's attention for the past two years has been drawn to the Antarctic. The trip to Queen Maud Land in the winter of 1996-97 opened his eyes to the possibilities: an entire continent of mostly unclimbed - even unseen and unmapped - mountains. The main focus of his obsession is the Transantarctic Range, a spine of mountains as long as the Rockies that runs up the opposite side of the continent - a forbidding and insanely cold setting for the last big collection of first ascents on the planet." http://outside.away.com/magazine/0399/9903climber.html "Now *there's* an extreme sport -- first time climbing an Antarctic peak. There must be lots and lots of peaks of all sizes in the Transantarctic Range that haven't yet been climbed." http://www.dregston.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=120&topic_id=3246&mesg_id=3293&page= |
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Re: Mountains unclimbed
From: leader-ga on 22 May 2004 21:15 PDT |
A lot can be judged by the technical scale of the climb. As I know, along with K2, Gasherbrum IV in Pakistan, there are the great Trango Towers and the Latok Mountains that are considered to be the ultimate climb. Henry might be speaking of such mountains ( a few of them in Pakistan ) that are still off limits to the climbing community due to tensions between India and Pakistan. Lots of mountains in Pakistan have seen very few successful accents. Here is a brief preview: http://www.aminwebsite.com/Members/Pakistan.html |
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