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https://www.europesays.com/ch/126398/ Athletics Canada says missing mountaineer was climbing near Switzerland-Italy border | National News #AthleticsCanada #Environment #justice #matterhorn #MountainRunning #Mountaineering #mountains #national #NationalGoverningBodiesForAthletics #skyrunning #SportOfAthleticsGoverningBodies #Sports #Switzerland

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎒🏞️ The Smithsonian traces backpack #design from a two-million-year-old practice to Ötzi’s hazel-and-board frame around 3300 BCE, then follows improvements through a #CivilWar cavalry officer’s patented canvas-and-metal pack, a #Duluth #canoe-hauling design, #aluminum-frame #mountaineering models, and the nylon #JanSport that made the #backpack a school staple. Roughly 450 million are sold annually.

👉 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/weve-been-strapping-cargo-backs-millions-years-backpack-innovation-took-off-around-civil-war-180989280/

#backpack #history #invention #hiking #science #socialstudies #engineering #innovation #industrialdesign #school #outdoors #otzi

https://www.alojapan.com/1529264/mans-son-7-got-tired-on-mount-fuji-so-he-ditched-him/ Man’s Son, 7, Got Tired on Mount Fuji, So He Ditched Him #fathers #hikers #Japan #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #mountain #MountainClimber #MountainClimbing #mountaineering #mountaineers #MountFuji #news #summit #富士山 
 The push to reach the top of Japan’s tallest peak seems to have led one dad to make a choice police are now calling “unacceptable.” Japanese media cited by the Independent report that a 48-year-old man left his 7-year-old

https://www.alojapan.com/1529264/mans-son-7-got-tired-on-mount-fuji-so-he-ditched-him/ Man’s Son, 7, Got Tired on Mount Fuji, So He Ditched Him #fathers #hikers #Japan #MountFuji #MountFujiNews #mountain #MountainClimber #MountainClimbing #mountaineering #mountaineers #MountFuji #news #summit #富士山 
 The push to reach the top of Japan’s tallest peak seems to have led one dad to make a choice police are now calling “unacceptable.” Japanese media cited by the Independent report that a 48-year-old man left his 7-year-old

Bringing 'Green Boots' home 30 years after climber died on Everest

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz05xn35xj7o

#Everest #Mountaineering

Rest in peace #JimWhittaker #REI #mountaineering

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Everest’s “rescue” scam allegedly turned sick trekkers into a million-dollar insurance machine

Dear Cherubs, Mount Everest is already dangerous without anyone allegedly helping the mountain along. Nepalese police say a rescue-and-insurance network may have turned routine illness into a very profitable business, with fake helicopter evacuations and forged paperwork padding claims to international insurers.

According to OCCRP and AP, investigators filed organized-crime and fraud charges against 32 people in Kathmandu, including trekking-agency owners, helicopter operators, and hospital executives. Police say the scheme ran between 2022 and 2025 and relied on fake medical records, manipulated rescue logs, and helicopter flights that were billed as emergencies even when they may not have been.

HOW THE SCHEME IS SAID TO HAVE WORKED

The alleged playbook was as grimly simple as it was expensive: make climbers feel desperately ill, tell them they need an urgent descent, then send in a helicopter and invoice the insurer. The Independent reported that guides were accused of using baking powder or similar food tampering to trigger gastrointestinal distress that could look like altitude sickness or food poisoning. OCCRP said investigators described the same tactic in court filings, including allegations that trekkers were fed baking soda before being “rescued.”

That matters because on Everest and its surrounding routes, a real evacuation can be life-saving and very costly. AP noted that climbers are required to show proof of insurance covering helicopter rescue before permits are issued, which is sensible in a place where the nearest decent solution is often a very expensive aircraft. Sensible systems, unfortunately, are also very attractive to people with bad intentions and a calculator.

OCCRP reported that police records put the alleged take at at least $19.69 million in insurance money, with three rescue firms linked to the bulk of the losses. One company was accused of 171 suspicious rescues out of 1,248, while others allegedly filed scores of fake claims worth millions more.

WHY IT MATTERS

This is bigger than a single scandal on the “roof of the world.” It is a reminder that high-altitude tourism runs on trust: trust in guides, trust in hospitals, trust in rescue operators, and trust that when someone says “medical emergency,” the paperwork is not doing stand-up comedy behind the scenes. AP said authorities have kept investigating after the first arrests in January, while The Independent reported that the case is already drawing sharper scrutiny over Nepal’s rescue industry.

As noted by thisclaimer.com, Everest stories tend to travel fast, but this one travels with a particularly awkward aftertaste. If the allegations hold up in court, Nepal will have to prove it can protect both climbers and the rescue system itself, because the mountain is hard enough without anyone gamifying the emergency button.

Sources:
AP News — https://apnews.com/article/nepal-mountaineering-fake-rescue-scam-ca64426bfe3373d7840fdb1d95f93a0a
OCCRP — https://www.occrp.org/en/news/poisoned-trekkers-and-phantom-flights-nepal-charges-32-in-massive-himalayan-rescue-scam
Kathmandu Post — https://kathmandupost.com/national/2026/03/23/nepal-charges-32-in-fake-rescue-scam
The Independent — https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/mount-everest-climb-nepal-insurance-scam-sherpa-poisoning-b2952027.html
thisclaimer.com — https://thisclaimer.com

What a trip this is! | PEAK

December 2025 clip compilation:
https://youtu.be/btV5NulIeSc
https://spectra.video/w/hmxNAn8MCJ5iUpc6fXJrVo

#MonzMont #MonzClips #PHVTuber #ENVTuber #VTuber #PNGTuber #VTuberClips #Clip #Clips #Shorts #Peak #PeakGame #Mountaineering #Spelunking #Hiking #CoopGame #TeamGame

Cact-sus | PEAK

December 2025 clip compilation:
https://youtu.be/btV5NulIeSc
https://spectra.video/w/hmxNAn8MCJ5iUpc6fXJrVo

#MonzMont #MonzClips #PHVTuber #ENVTuber #VTuber #PNGTuber #VTuberClips #Shorts #Peak #PeakGame #Mountaineering #Spelunking #Hiking #CoopGame #TeamGame

I hate Bing Bong | PEAK

December 2025 clip compilation:
https://youtu.be/btV5NulIeSc
https://spectra.video/w/hmxNAn8MCJ5iUpc6fXJrVo

#MonzMont #MonzClips #PHVTuber #ENVTuber #VTuber #PNGTuber #VTuberClips #Shorts #Peak #PeakGame #Mountaineering #Spelunking #Hiking #CoopGame #TeamGame

Scorpion sounds | PEAK

We raided AudreyBunny after stream: https://www.twitch.tv/audreybunny

Stream VOD:
https://youtube.com/live/xRuewRxwc4E
https://spectra.video/w/ndyakQDY9qNwYa3hbCNJXH

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First aid fail | PEAK

Thanks for joining stream! We raided CaspianLock: https://www.twitch.tv/caspianlock

Full VOD:
https://youtube.com/live/Vb1L_BrT4J4
https://spectra.video/w/jRiG7fPGzHtk1YQB6RhSj5

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Atomic in your walls | PEAK

November 2025 clip compilation:
https://youtu.be/BvOVXSc5rCQ
https://spectra.video/w/671fP8zdGf7uBVPD7NLhWK

#MonzMont #MonzClips #PHVTuber #ENVTuber #VTuber #PNGTuber #Shorts #Peak #PeakGame #Mountaineering #Spelunking #Hiking #CoopGame #TeamGame

Thanks for joining me on PEAK stream collab. We finished the game but I died so many times. Still, puns and jokes were made so that is a win!

We raided ImKhaifer : https://www.twitch.tv/khaifer

VOD:
https://youtube.com/live/r_LSceQ86
https://spectra.video/w/iCMdZxiFzAudvv1UZPHS4r

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Famed Mountaineer Accused of Faking His Summit Photos with Photoshopped and Stolen Images https://petapixel.com/2025/08/20/famed-mountaineer-accused-of-faking-his-summit-photos-with-photoshopped-and-stolen-images/ #mountainclimbing #Post-Processing #mountaineering #editedphoto #photoshop #faked #News

Corner Pass in the Injasuthi area of the Drakensberg. This very rocky pass has some risky, non-beginner scrambles in it.

As I was negotiating the last of the scrambles (also the crux of the pass) a rock was dislodged above me. I tried to duck as deep as possible into the rock section I was on, but I heard it whoosh past my head. It bounced on top of my backpack, which I was wearing at the time, and then continued further down the pass.

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Mount Everest: The World's Highest Peak
Mount Everest, standing tall at 8,848 meters (29,029 feet), is the pinnacle of natural wonder, attracting adventurers from around the globe.
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This one and my other photographs of the Everest Region – both with and without labels marking the peaks — can be purchased on #FineArtAmerica as posters, framed prints, metal prints (as seen here), and other products.

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/radek-kucharski?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=1049611

Licenses to use this and other similar images are available on Zoonar, at https://www.zoonar.com/profile/georadek?wid=1511.

#AYearForArt #mountains #mountaineering #Everest #EverestBaseCamp #Himalayas #trekking #hiking #climbing #WallArt #WallDecoration #MountEverest #Lhotse

This one and my other photographs of the Everest Region – both with and without labels marking the peaks — can be purchased on #FineArtAmerica as posters, framed prints, metal prints (as seen here), and other products.

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/radek-kucharski?tab=artworkgalleries&artworkgalleryid=1049611

Licenses to use this and other similar images are available on Zoonar, at https://www.zoonar.com/profile/georadek?wid=1511.

#AYearForArt #mountains #mountaineering #Everest #EverestBaseCamp #Himalayas #trekking #hiking #climbing #WallArt #WallDecoration #MountEverest #Lhotse

The eight-thousander Cho Oyu, Tenzing Peak and Hillary Peak seen among many other Himalayan mountains from a glacial moraine high above the Ama Dablam Base Camp in the Khumbu Region, the #Himalayas. Photo with peak labels. #SagarmathaNationalPark, #EverestRegion. Solukhumbu, Nepal.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/view-from-a-high-point-above-ama-dabla-bc-radek-kucharski.html – prints. DM me to download.

#Everest #MountEverest #EverestBaseCamp #AmaDablam #Tenzing #EdmundHillary #Sherpa #trekking #mountains #mountaineering #Nepal #photo #mountainscape #landscape

Mount Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse seen from Gokyo Ri at sunset. An autumn view. Photo with peak labels. Gokyo Trek, Khumbu, the Everest Region, Himalayas. Sagarmatha National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Solukhumbu, Nepal

Prints of this photo and other similar images are available now.

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This photo of the #EverestRegion, showing #MountEverest, #Lhotse and some other prominent peaks, with summits label-marked in it, has been recently featured in 1000 VIEWS ON 1 IMAGE #FineArtAmerica group.

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だいぶ登ってきましたが、頂上まではもう少しあります。霧氷が作り出す白と青の世界を進みます。

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丹沢に雪が降った翌日。みんな白い世界を期待して登ってきます。ここの登りがつらい所。

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