#mountaineering — Public Fediverse posts

With the Matterhorn so close by, the Ober Gabelhorn (4063m) is probably a bit underappreciated, so perfect for a bit of Mountain-Monday-spotlighting.

https://cosleyhouston.com/obergabelhorn.htm

#MountainMonday #Mountaineering

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

What an epic view 🤩

This was an amazing moment I was able to enjoy this morning. The tour didn't go as planned so there was plenty of time to watch the capricorns all over the place around this beautiful scenery.

Watching glaciers makes me a bit sad as they're really in bad condition and I am hoping for a strong winter ahead. 🥶❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

#ibex #ValaisWallis #Switzerland #mountains #mountaineering #SilentSunday #hiking #hikingGuide #Wanderleiter #Zinalrothorn #glacier

The great Snowdon queue-skipping row – is it really OK to jump the line if you’re not taking a selfie?
By Guardian Staff

The crowds at the top of Yr Wyddfa, the highest mountain in Wales, are now so huge that seasoned hikers and climbers are simply walking past them. Is everyone just making a mountain out of a molehill?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/aug/26/the-great-snowdon-queue-skipping-row-is-it-really-ok-to-jump-the-line-if-youre-not-taking-a-selfie

#Walking #Mountaineering #Wales #Snowdoniaholidays #UKnews #Travel #Lifeandstyle #Walesholidays #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff

#MountainMonday #mountaineering

#silentSunday #mountaineering #alpineStart #miles2go

3/3
We departed at 6:15. Myself as the guide, my son and a friend of mine. The friend of mine was never on a glacier before and is not used to scrambling so I planned with plenty of spare time. I defined 11am for the latest return point.
We were slow but well within the predefined time frame. The glacier is almost snow free with several crevascres, however it's an easy glacier, mostly almost flat. The final scrambling up to the summit I just did with my son, my friend decided to wait for us as he didn't feel confident enough to do the final scrambling. So we just spent a few minutes at the summit enjoying the views.
Back at the hut we refilled and descended back to Curaglia.

All in all a little bit more than 800m ascend and almost 2000m descent.

Back home at 22:20 - exhausted but happy.

#mountainMonday #mountain #mountaineering #alps #switzerland

Go fund this! #mountaineering #climbing #resilience #Outdoors #hiking #Adventure https://emails.kickstarter.com/ss/c/u001.rUIcnpczY6e9uR91rg5kh39Uko7iqNv4FvSyXhek3iUZt5YMb-1DPAsGQSx_WBkLFUPxK55oxnU5gPmKwYcURj57QJzm-f1O8xaZ0Ci1LfU/4t8/6qFIaa6QRKC7t82cA4O7PQ/h4/h001.R-jSnUVzPZl1umCP367hr_yKMf-_d5K2oQqKMvK8XSI

1/3
Summit of Piz Medel yesterday 10:30.

A longer post will follow.

#mountaineering #Alps #Switzerland #summit

Crowds at Mont Blanc: will hiking soon require reservations?

The Tour du Mont-Blanc is one of Europe’s most popular long-distance hiking routes, a 170-kilometre circuit through France, Italy and Switzerland that some 80 000 people walk each year, creating mounting problems.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260815-crowds-at-mont-blanc-will-hiking-soon-require-reservations?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#MontBlanc #Mountaineering #Hiking #Tourism #France #Italy #Switzerland

Seit 1992 galten zwei belgische Wanderer nach einer Tour im Wallis als vermisst. Nun sind auf dem Triftgletscher bei Saas-Grund menschliche Überreste entdeckt worden. Die formelle Identifikation läuft noch.

https://www.20min.ch/story/triftgletscher-vs-ueberreste-gefunden-sind-es-seit-34-jahren-vermisste-wanderer-103616970

#Mountaineering

Savage Mountain review – inside the record-smashing mountain climb that ruined lives
By Rachel Aroesti

Former cross-country skiing champion, Kristin Harila had clocked an incredible mountaineering record – but then, halfway up K2, she and her team encountered an injured porter from another expedition …

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/11/savage-mountain-review-kristin-harila-k2-climbing-expedition-sky-documentaries-now

#Television #Televisionradio #Culture #Documentary #Mountaineering #FactualTV #TheGuardian #RachelAroesti

Rest in peace #JimWhittaker #REI #mountaineering

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/sports/jim-whittaker-dead.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20260410&instance_id=173860&nl=the-morning&regi_id=104631560&segment_id=218013&user_id=47c8b430b58cedc54a540f740f3edaaf

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

Came across this wonderful image from Arctic photographer, Martin Hartley, which shows me skiing up from base camp on Klyutchevskoy Sopka. The mountain had started erupting before we arrived and the volcanic ash on the snow gave the terrain an almost lunar look.

#Kamchatka #ski #mountains #mountaineering #skitouring #expeditions

324th Mountaineering and Adventure Sports Training Programme Concludes at Regional Mountaineering Institute.

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/hp_324_mountaineering_programme_concludes

#Mountaineering #AdventureSports #McLeodganj #NSSVolunteers #YouthTraining #DisasterManagement #TriundTrek #HimachalPradesh #AdventureEducation

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

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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@PoLaRobs As one who did learn to abseil with rope wound around me, I agree that the display of "historic" gear seems modern! #RockClimbing #Mountaineering #Abseil
#Rappel #GrayHaired

@PoLaRobs As one who did learn to abseil with rope wound around me, I agree that the display of "historic" gear seems modern! #RockClimbing #Mountaineering #Abseil
#Rappel #GrayHaired

@PoLaRobs As one who did learn to abseil with rope wound around me, I agree that the display of "historic" gear seems modern! #RockClimbing #Mountaineering #Abseil
#Rappel #GrayHaired

@PoLaRobs As one who did learn to abseil with rope wound around me, I agree that the display of "historic" gear seems modern! #RockClimbing #Mountaineering #Abseil
#Rappel #GrayHaired

@PoLaRobs As one who did learn to abseil with rope wound around me, I agree that the display of "historic" gear seems modern! #RockClimbing #Mountaineering #Abseil
#Rappel #GrayHaired

Italy's hidden mountain museums in the clouds.

The Dolomites hold immeasurable thrills for travellers – now, the opening of a new mountaineering collection from one of the greatest climbers of all time, Reinhold Messner, is adding new meaning to their story.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251012-italys-hidden-mountain-museums-in-the-clouds?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Italy #Museums #Travel #Dolomites #Mountains #Mountaineering #ReinholdMessner

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It's early days, but as someone who wants to #mountaineer one day, I was fascinated.

Genus #Blautia, a common #gut #bacteria studied for other reasons (increased cognitive development in infants & lower risk of #obesity & #diabetes in adults), can also possibly reduce damage caused by #AltitudeSickness

https://www.science.org/content/article/mile-high-probiotic-gut-microbe-may-help-lowlanders-conquer-high-altitudes.

#Hypoxia #Microbiome #ImmuneSystems #Mountaineering #Tibet #China

What an adventure 🤠
We as #AlpSoil_Lab from #EuracResearch set up our highest pitfall traps yet at high #alpine sites at 3300m and 3100m.
These #GLORIA sites are quite steep and challenging to reach, but I can't wait to see the #soilfauna living up there 🔍

#SoilScience #SoilBiodiversity #Alps #EuropeanAlps #SoilBiology #SouthTyrol #Italy #TexelGroup #Mountains #Mountaineering

The Wikipedia entry for #MountKailash has a section with the title: #mountaineering.

In that section, there is an entry: "#ReinholdMessner was given the opportunity by the Chinese government to #climb in the mid-1980s. But he declined, saying 'If we conquer this mountain, then we conquer something in people's souls.'"

I love that.

I don't believe the peak has ever been climbed, and given its holy status (Buddhists consider Mt. Kailash to be the center of the earth) that's as it should be.