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Mount Gongga Northwest Ridge Orthographic projection centred over Gongga Shan. Mount Gongga (simplified Chinese: 贡嘎山; traditional Chinese: 貢嘎山; pinyin: Gònggá Shān), also known as Minya Konka (Khams Tibetan: མི་ཉག་གངས་དཀར་རི་བོ་, Khams Tibetan pinyin: Mi'nyâg Gong'ga Riwo) and colloquially as "The King of Sichuan Mountains", is the ...
The documentary is about Project Possible, a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins).
List of Mountains in Turkey; Name Altitude Mountain Range Coordinates Büyük Ağrı (Mount Ararat) 5,137 m (16,854 ft) Ağrı (Armenian Highlands: Gelyansın or Uludoruk (Reşko Tepesi) 4,134 m (13,563 ft) Armenian Highlands
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Lincoln Ross Hall OAM (19 December 1955 – 20 March 2012) was a veteran Australian mountaineer, adventurer and author.Lincoln was part of the first Australian expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1984, which successfully forged a new route.
This list of museums and monuments in Istanbul, Turkey, includes the relevant architectural entities within Istanbul's city limits. (in alphabetical order; Turkish-language name in parentheses where appropriate)
From left to right: The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Hagia Sophia, the Seraglio Point consisting of the Topkapı Palace and the Sea Walls, and the Galata Tower at far right, across the Golden Horn
Yasuko Namba (難波 康子, Nanba Yasuko, February 7, 1949 – May 11, 1996 [1]) was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei [2]) to climb the Seven Summits. [3] Namba worked as a businesswoman for Federal Express in Japan, but her hobby of mountaineering took her all over the world.