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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kris Annapurna |Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides
Today, Slovenian alpinist Nejc Zaplotnik would have turned 73. Widely regarded as one of the most influential climbers of his generation, he left an indelible mark on mountaineering through his bold ascents, philosophical writings, and tragic early death. Zaplotnik’s resumé includes over 350 ascents across Europe, Africa, and North America.
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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
Commercialization is here to stay on Annapurna. While resources are optimized and summit rates maximized, there are also worrying trends. There are too many inexperienced climbers, an alarming number of rescues, and local workers are losing their lives. South African climbers Warren Eva and John Black made time to chat with ExplorersWeb about their experience this season on Annapurna. They discuss crowds, oxygen use, airlifts, and the recent avalanche.
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1 week ago | 
explorersweb.com | Kristine De Abreu |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
In 1980, 19-year-old Peter Lambert was working aboard the MV Derbyshire, one of Britain’s largest ships, transporting several thousand tons of iron ore from Japan. It was supposed to be his final trip on the high seas. He was already thinking about his life after this voyage, preparing for another job and planning to marry his childhood sweetheart. Instead, the ship disappeared in a treacherous body of water called the Devil’s Sea.
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2 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
Sherpas on Annapurna have located the bodies of Rima Sherpa and Ngima Tashi Sherpa, who died in an avalanche on Tuesday. They found the bodies thanks to a Recco reflector in their clothing. The deceased worked for Seven Summit Treks (SST), the only team still on the mountain. A second SST group hopes to launch a new summit push as soon as the weather improves. Recco detectionThe climbers were slightly above Camp 2 when the avalanche struck.
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2 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Lou Bodenhemier |Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
Lush greenery is as unexpected in the Sahara as it is in Antarctica. Yet both were once home to more temperate ecosystems. Unlike the jungles of Antarctica, which froze away many millions of years ago, the Green Sahara was recent enough to host early humans. Every 21,000 years, the Sahara experiences a wet, rainy period, turning it into a woodland. The last North African Humid Period occurred between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago.
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2 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna
One of the most interesting expeditions of the season left Kathmandu today toward two isolated peaks in the Kangchenjunga region of eastern Nepal. Peter Hamor of Slovakia, plus Nives Meroi and Romano Benet of Italy, will attempt a new route on 7,590m Yalung Peak, one of the subsidiary points of the Kangchenjunga massif. The team intends to focus on their exploratory climb and leave their social media posts for their return, so we likely won’t hear anything further until they finish.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna |Ash Routen
Ultra-distance athlete Mitch Hutchcraft of the UK is one of hundreds of climbers currently flocking to Everest, but his approach to the mountain is different from anyone since Goran Kropp cycled there from Sweden in 1995-6. Hutchcraft, 32, left his home in Dover seven months ago, aiming to reach Everest by non-motorized means. And not just by cycling. He planned the 12,800km project as the longest triathlon ever.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Ash Routen |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
A solution has emerged for Greenland’s strict new insurance rules for adventure travel, which threatened to derail the season. French insurer Groupama will meet the government’s new coverage requirements. “The insurance premium is much higher…and the company may refuse the application if it deems your experience is not convincing enough,” says Eric Bonnem of Lyon-based Expeditions Unlimited.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Angela Benavides |Kris Annapurna |Lou Bodenhemier
Well-known Spanish climber Carlos Suarez, 52, died yesterday in a wingsuit accident. He was performing a stunt for a film about his own life of solo climbing and extreme BASE jumping. The film La Fiera (“The Wild Beast”), directed by Salvador Calvo, was also supposed to document the adventurous lives and premature deaths of a group of close friends of Suarez: Spanish BASE jumping pioneers Dario Barrio, Alvaro Bulto, and Manolo Chana.
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3 weeks ago | 
explorersweb.com | Rebecca McPhee |Kris Annapurna |Angela Benavides |Lou Bodenhemier
Russian adventurer Fedor Konyukhov has ended his attempt to circumnavigate the Southern Hemisphere. The 73-year-old priest had to abandon his 27,000km rowing journey after several technical failures on his boat, AKROS. Konyukhov was attempting a three-stage route around the southern hemisphere of our planet. Starting in 2019, he rowed 11,525km alone from New Zealand to Argentina, thereby becoming the first-known person to make a solo crossing of the Southern Pacific Ocean.
