climber
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A well-known amateur rock climber who had set at least two known speed-climbing records at Yosemite National Park died in a climbing accident at Sequoia National Park last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The start of the descent with the body would be the most difficult, Indian climber Kuntal Joisher told BBC Nepali.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The avalanche struck Thursday, cutting off contact with the ten-member international expedition led by renowned British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja -- who is not among the remains recovered so far.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
Renowned climber Nirmal Purja and nine other mountaineers died in an avalanche while scaling a mountain in Pakistan on Thursday, Purja’s expedition company said Saturday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
When field marshals picked their men I was snapped up 'cause I was an ace dodger and tree climber.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Some modern hunter-gatherers and human foragers are also highly capable climbers.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
One of their studies tracked mountain climbers and found that being totally absorbed in a demanding task well done correlated directly with happiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Frequent stair climbers were 39% less likely to die from heart-related causes and 24% less likely to die from any cause compared with people who climbed stairs less often.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
Most climbers choose to ascend from the Nepalese side, but Morup's crew wanted to write their names into the history books as the first Indian expedition to do it from the treacherous Chinese side.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In 1992 the fee was increased to $10,000 for a team of up to nine climbers, with another $1,200 to be paid for each additional climber.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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