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| Cliff The highest cliff (rock wall, mountain face) in the world, is Nanga Parbat's Rupal Flank in the Himalayas, that rises 4600 meters above its base. Cliff | |
| Galen Rowell Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972. Galen_Rowell | |
| Lynn Hill Lynn Hill (born 1961) is a United States climber, known as a top sport climber of the 1980s and famous for making the first free ascent of the Nose Route on Yosemite's El Capitan.Originally from Detroit, Michigan, she grew up in southern California.Camp 4 in Yosemite Valley. She participated in various television productions, such as being a candidate in the TV show Survival of the Fittest. Lynn_Hill | |
| Manaslu Manaslu (मनास्लु, also known as Kutang) is the eighth highest mountain in the world, located in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas. Manaslu is derived from the Sanskrit word Manasa and is translated as "Mountain of the Spirit".Manaslu is the highest peak in the Lamjung district and is located about forty miles east of Annapurna, the world's tenth highest mountain. Manaslu | |
| Eight-thousander Talk:Eight-thousander | |
| Manaslu Talk:Manaslu | |
| Gauri Sankar for the village in Nepal see Gauri Sankar (village) Gauri_Sankar | |
| Melungtse Melungtse ( Melungtse | |
| Clean climbing Clean climbing is a largely obsolete term related to rock climbing that emerged in about 1970 with widespread adoption in the United States and Canada of so-called "clean" protection, which consisted at the time solely of nuts (also called chocks), and the very similar but often larger "hexes". Clean_climbing | |
| Siula Grande Siula Grande is a mountain in the Cordillera Huayhuash, in the Peruvian Andes. It is 6344It was made famous by the book Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, about an ascent and subsequent harrowing descent of the mountain by him and Simon Yates in 1985. The book was made into a film of the same title in 2003. Siula_Grande | |
| Gaston Rébuffat Gaston Rébuffat (7 May 1921, Marseille 31 May 1985, Paris) was a well-known French alpinist and mountain guide. The climbing technique, to gaston, was named after him. He was a recipient of France's prestigious Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 1984. Gaston_Rébuffat | |
| Dennis Schmitt Dennis Schmitt (born Berkeley, California), is a veteran explorer from UC Berkeley who, in 2005, discovered a new island formed by the retreat of an ice shelf in East Greenland. Uunartoq Qeqertoq, Inuit for "The Warming Island", lies 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Dennis_Schmitt | |
| Ed Viesturs Ed Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is one of only 14 people to have climbed all eight-thousander peaks. Ed_Viesturs | |
| Cerro Torre Cerro_Torre | |
| George Irving Bell George Irving Bell (August 4, 1926 in Evanston, Illinois – May 28, 2000) was an American physicist, biologist and mountaineer. He died from complications of leukemia after surgery. George_Irving_Bell | |
| Hamish MacInnes Hamish MacInnes (born 1930) is a Scottish mountaineer, leading mountain search and rescuer, author and advisor. He is the leading Scottish winter mountaineer of the generation following W. H. Murray.MacInnes was born in Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland in 1930. He made the first winter ascent of Crowberry Ridge Direct and of Raven's Gully on Buachaille Etive Mòr with Chris Bonington in 1953. He designed the first all-metal ice axe, Hamish_MacInnes | |
| John Gill (climber) John Gill (1937 - ) is an American mathematician who has achieved recognition for his rock-climbing. He is considered the Father of Modern Bouldering by many climbers. John_Gill_(climber) | |
| Royal Robbins Royal Robbins (born 1935) was one of the early pioneers of American rock climbing. Learning his skill at Tahquitz he moved on to put up many of the early Yosemite routes. A very early proponent of boltless, pitonless clean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s to minimise overall human impact on the vertical wilderness by protecting its natural features. Royal_Robbins | |
| American Alpine Club American_Alpine_Club | |
| John Harlin (mountaineer) John Elvis Harlin II (June 30, 1935–March 22, 1966) was an American mountaineer and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger. Harlin graduated from Sequoia High School and Stanford University, and after establishing himself as a mountaineer with the first American ascent of the Eiger North Face's Original Route in 1962, conceived the ambition of climbing the Eiger by the direttissima (Italian for "most direct") route. John_Harlin_(mountaineer) |
