This is the disturbing moment when an Everest climber stumbles across the frozen body of an earlier adventurer as he makes an attempt on the summit. Climber Nathaniel Douglas, 36, stumbled across the corpse wedged into a crevasse just 30 metres (98 feet) below the peak. Still in perfectly preserved…
A well-known solo mountaineer who specialised in free climbing without ropes or safety devices has died after he fell 100 metres to his death from the side of an icy peak. Jonas Hainz poses in an undated photo. Hainz, a Tyrolean climber, has died after suffering a fall of more…
(starts) A British climber has been rescued almost frozen to death from a glazier on the Mont Blanc mountain range, in the Italian Alps. The climber, reportedly named as Feda Hussein, 26, from Portsmouth, was rescued in regular hiking gear despite the freezing temperatures on the morning of Sunday, 2nd…
An experienced Austrian climber and professional guide has died trying to conquer alone the Denali, the highest mountain in North America, where daytime temperatures are still as low as -35 centigrade. Alaska National Park Service said that the body of Matthias Rimml, 35, had been spotted during an aerial search…
A 32-year-old German climber has died in an avalanche on an Argentine mountain. Robert Grasegger was climbing the Aguja Guillaumet (Guillaumet Needle) on the Fitz Roy mountain via the Fonrouge route with two friends when the snowslide struck on Thursday, 6th January. One of the friends, German national Thomas Holler,…
