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The company offers trekking and climbing packages, expert guides, and logistical support to clients. Amongst its accolades, it has successfully guided: the world's oldest female on the summit of Everest; [ 4 ] the first blind Asian man on Everest; [ 5 ] the first double summit of Mt. Everest in one season (from Nepal and Tibet); [ 6 ] the first ...
The name is a truncated version of the full name "Himalayan Experience". [1] National Geographic said Himex was the "largest and most sophisticated guiding operation on Everest" in a 2013 article. [2] Himex's team is known for fixing lines on Mount Everest, although in 2012 other teams did this work. [3]
Expedition climbing (or expedition-style or pejoratively siege climbing), [1] [2] is a type of mountaineering that uses a series of well-stocked camps on the mountain leading to the summit (e.g. Base Camp, Camp 1, Camp 2, etc.), that are supplied by teams of mountain porters. [2]
They were well-acclimatised to altitude, having wintered over at 5,800 metres (19,029 ft) near the base of the peak as part of the 1960–61 Silver Hut expedition, led by Sir Edmund Hillary. [ 7 ] Situated at a distance of 162 km (101 mi) north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar and 152 km (94 mi) northeast to Kathmandu , Ama Dablam is the ...
The two climbers were investigated for climbing Everest without a permit. [8] Lit up tents of Seven Summit Treks seen at Everest base camp. In 2019, Seven Summit Treks was recognized as the largest royalty/taxpayer firm of Nepal, having organised the highest number of climbing expeditions in the Nepal Himalayas. [9]
The expedition climbed the Dutch Ridge (hidden from view) and climbed around The Sickle seen in the center of the image, staying left before traversing the summit ridge to the high point on the left. The American Women's Himalayan Expedition was a 1978 expedition to Annapurna which placed the first two women, and first Americans, on its summit.
The 8,126-metre (26,659 ft) Nanga Parbat in Pakistan is at the extreme western end of the Himalaya mountain range.It is over 620 miles (1,000 km) from Dhaulagiri, its nearest eight-thousander neighbour in the Himalayas, but it is about 120 miles (190 km) from K2 in the Karakoram, [1] separated by the Indus River flowing 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) lower than the summit. [2]
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).