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Makalu: New Attempt to Retrieve Bodies; Another Summit Team Arrives

The recovery team launches a second attempt to retrieve the body of Phurba Ongel and find Abofazl Gozali of Iran in what ...
The Himalayan Times

Iranian climber missing, sherpa dead after Makalu winter summit

Search and rescue teams are scouring Mount Makalu's upper slopes for an Iranian mountaineer who vanished during descent, ...

Four Summit Winter Makalu

Sanu Sherpa of Nepal and Abofazl Gozali of Iran reached the summit of Makalu today. Two more Sherpas topped out a little ...
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Tragedy on Makalu: Phurba Ongel Sherpa dies, Iranian client missing

The brother of climbing leader Sanu Sherpa fell to his death on the way down. As Sanu tried to help his brother, client ...
Outside

Alex Pancoe Died on Makalu. Friends Say He Climbed With “An Incredible Sense of Purpose.”

On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepal’s 27,838-foot Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain. Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a ...

Nepal halts search after guide killed, Iranian climber missing

KATHMANDU: Bad weather forced Nepali rescuers to suspend the search Monday (Jan 19) for an Iranian climber missing for four ...
Newsweek

Climber Shares Video She Recorded for Family in Case She Didn’t ‘Make It’

Thrill seekers regularly head to the Himalayas to climb and trek through some of the toughest and most beautiful terrain in the world. Most of the time, everything goes smoothly, but occasionally ...
Digital Journal

French climber dies on Nepal’s Mt Makalu

The Everest range, including Lhotse (far left), Makalu (centre) and Ama Dablam (R) - Copyright AFP PRAKASH MATHEMA The Everest range, including Lhotse (far left ...