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Ballinger is the founder and CEO of Alpenglow Expeditions, and has been guiding full-time for 25 years. He has led over 150 international climbing expeditions on six continents, and made 18 successful summits of 8,000m peaks. He is known for pioneering the use of pre-acclimatization for commercial expeditions as early as 2012, which can cut the ...
Mount Alpenglow is a 4,816-foot (1,468 m) landmark mountain located in the Kenai Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, 8 mi (13 km) southwest of Girdwood, Alaska, on the south shore of Turnagain Arm, opposite Bird Point from where it can be prominently seen from the Seward Highway and the Alaska Railroad.
Emily Turner, Alpenglow Expeditions' Everest base camp manager, organizes supplies for a May trip. ... In six seasons climbing the southern route, from 2009 to 2014, Ballinger said he passed ...
This year, he will lead a group of climbers through his company, Alpenglow Expeditions. ... “Climbing from the Chinese side used to be more popular than climbing from the Nepali side. So from ...
Ballinger then started a climbing company called "Alpenglow Expeditions". [ 14 ] Dr. Tracee Metcalfe has served as an expedition doctor for Himex, climbing Mount Everest with the team in 2016.
Alpenglow's group intro courses in mountaineering, avalanche rescue and more start around $275. The same goes for Sierra Mountain Guides, which offers a two-day introductory ice climbing course .
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In 1987, Bradey reached the summit of Gasherbrum II, thereby becoming the first Australasian woman to climb one of the world's fourteen 8,000 metre peaks. [6] The climb proved controversial since Bradey was climbing on a permit for the adjacent Gasherbrum I (a peak she had abandoned in favour of Gasherbrum II due to bad weather), making her ascent illegal. [5]