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Wu competed at the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Championships and finished in sixth place. He finished the 2023 IFSC Climbing World Cup season in second place. [1] During the first leg of 2024 Olympic Qualifier Series in Shanghai, Wu finished in second place. He had the fastest time of qualifying during his first attempt, finishing in 4.94 seconds. [3]
Northern vantage of K2. K2 is the world's second-highest mountain at 8,611 meters (28,251 ft) above sea level.It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.
Lai Chi Wai (Chinese: 黎志偉; born December 25, 1982) is a rock climber, competition climber, and a motivational speaker from Hong Kong.He is a four-time champion of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships and the world's first Chinese winner of the X-Game's extreme sports.
Anna Gutu was climbing Shishapangma, the world’s 14th tallest peak, when two avalanches hit its slopes at elevations of 7,600m and 8,000m, killing the American climber along with her guide ...
Ondrej Huserka’s rope reportedly snapped and he fell into ice crevasse while rappelling down tough east face of Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal
In 1975, he was the deputy leader of the Chinese expedition team that successfully climbed and surveyed Mount Everest. In 1988, he was the deputy leader of the China-Japan-Nepal joint Mount Everest "crossover" team. Xu Jing was vice-president of China Mountaineering Association. Xu died on 15 October 2011 due to liver cancer. He was aged 84. [1]
A top Slovak mountaineer died on a descent of the 7,234-meter Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal after an historic ascent up its east face, Slovakia's climbers association said on Sunday.
Wang Fuzhou (Chinese: 王富洲; pinyin: Wáng Fùzhōu; c. 1935 – 18 July 2015) [1] [2] was a Chinese mountaineer, born in Xihua County, Henan. He and Qu Yinhua were the first Chinese to climb Mount Everest on the northeast ridge route. [3] Wang graduated from the Beijing Institute of Geology in 1958. He was elected to the Chinese ...