A Gurkha veteran who lost both legs serving in Afghanistan has set a new record becoming the first double above-knee (DAK) amputee to summit the highest peak outside of Asia. Hari Budha Magar, from ...

Sri Lankan mountaineer Johann Peries is just one summit away from completing the world’s most coveted mountaineering ...

“Where there’s will, there’s a way”. Kaamya Karthikeyan proved this famous saying true by becoming the youngest girl in the world to complete the Seven Summits Challenge. The 17-year old ...

Climbers enjoy great success on Mount Vinson this season. The Antarctic summer runs from November through March, when the sun shines 24-hours per day and temperatures hover around 12°F to 30°F ...

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Johann Peries summits the tallest mountain in Antarctica - Mount Vinson - at 4,892 metres ... as he completed the summits of Mount Elbrus in Europe, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, and Mount ...

Mount Vinson is more than three times higher than the biggest mountain in the UK. Uncle Bob is on an expedition to the South Pole, and he sent me a photo of his frozen baked beans but I don’t ...