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Terry "Mugs" Stump (August 28, 1949 – May 21, 1992) was a noted American rock climber and mountaineer, active in establishing difficult first ascents in the Alaska Range and the Canadian Rockies. He died from falling into a crevasse while descending the South Buttress of Denali on May 21, 1992, while guiding clients Bob Hoffman and Nelson Max.
Based on a concept by climber John Long, the film follows Gabe (Stallone), a mountain climber who becomes embroiled in a heist of a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival , and was released in the United States on May 28, 1993, by TriStar Pictures .
In 2015, director Peter Mortimer, a climber himself, comes across a blog post about Leclerc, a 23-year-old Canadian who had solo climbed a famous climbing route known as The Corkscrew (1,250m, 5.10d, A1) on Cerro Torre. [1] Mortimer travels to Squamish, British Columbia—the heart of Canada's climbing scene—to meet Leclerc. Leclerc is quirky ...
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Co-written and directed by its star, Thomas Salvador, this atmospheric and suggestive outdoors drama follows a lonely man's attempt to conquer the French Alps.
Marc-André Leclerc (October 10, 1992 – March 5, 2018) was a Canadian rock climber, ice and mixed climber, and alpinist.He is known for his solo ascents–often in winter–of major ice and alpine climbing routes.
Hundreds of climbers have died on Everest Members of the Irvine family reportedly offered to share DNA samples to confirm the identity of the remains. Irvine was 22 when he went missing.
Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain. It's known for being extremely hard to climb; named the "Killer Mountain" by the 1953 German expedition, first to successfully reach the peak. [204] [205] In addition to the large number of climbing deaths, 11 mountaineers were killed in 2013 by Taliban.