mountaineer
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The 20-year-old set a new record in 2024 as the youngest mountaineer to summit the world's 14 highest peaks.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Renowned Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 people missing after an avalanche in northern Pakistan where he was leading a climbing expedition, the country's alpine club said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Purja, 43, who served with Britain's Brigade of Gurkhas before joining the Special Boat Squadron of the Royal Marines, has broken multiple climbing records since becoming a full-time mountaineer and tour guide.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Legendary mountaineer George Mallory wrote to his mother to say "the ink has begun to freeze" before he disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, newly-discovered letters have revealed.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
But it was my father, a weekend mountaineer, who taught me to climb.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Nims was a former Gurkha and British Special Forces soldier who quickly became one of the world's best-known mountaineers.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
“Everest: The Other Side,” from filmmakers Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, follows mountaineers Hilaree Nelson and Jim Morrison as they prepare to climb Everest’s north face and attempt an unprecedented ski descent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
DNA analysis later confirmed them to be those of two mountaineers who went missing 34 years ago near the Weissmies mountain, police said.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Renowned climber Nirmal Purja and nine other mountaineers were killed on Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
After Messner and Habeler proved that Everest could be climbed without gas, a cadre of ambitious mountaineers agreed that it should be climbed without gas.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
The lime mountaineering boots worn by an Indian climber who died in 1996 have been a grim trail marker for many climbers on their way up the world's highest peak ever since.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In Nepal, by contrast, mountaineering infrastructure is well-developed.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It is certainly true that tennis requires discipline and sacrifice, but is this country-club sport really more intense than, say, distance running, mountaineering or solo sailing?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
"This is an unthinkable loss for our mountaineering community and for the nation," Fur Gelje Sherpa, the President of Nepal's mountaineering association posted on social media.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
One of the more incredible feats in the annals of mountaineering, it was known forever after simply as The Belay.*
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
