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In September 2024 a National Geographic team comprised of Jimmy Chin, Erich Roepke and Mark Fisher discovered what they believe to be remains of British mountaineer Andrew Irvine. The climber was last seen 100 years ago with george mallory on the NE Ridge of Everest during their historic attempt to...

The Alpine Club has opened its landmark exhibition 'Everest: By Those Who Were There' to the public. The exhibition commemorates 100 years since the first expedition to Mount Everest in 1921, and explores, in intimate detail, the three Alpine Club and Royal Geographical Society expeditions of the 1920s.

In The Ghosts Above, American alpinist and filmmaker Renan Ozturk joins an expedition to Everest following in the footsteps of Andrew Irvine and george mallory, the British climbers who perished on the mountain on June 8, 1924.

Sir Edmund Hillary died in Auckland (NZ) on 11/01/2008 aged 88. Together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay he was the first to reach the summit of Everest, the highest mountain in the world.

The spring 2001 himalayan season is about to begin and the majority of expeditions are heading, once again, to Mt. Everest

The 18th edition of the International Festival of Mountain Films "Vila de Torelló" took place in Torelló, Spain from 10 -19 November