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Century of Mountaineering (VIII): the conquest of the giants

The history of the conquest of the great mountains of the world would suffer a dramatic turnaround. Today we are able to say that those years involved a golden age in the conquest of the highest mountains on Earth.

bySebastián Álvaro

4 April, 2013

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Century of Mountaineering (VII): Shipton, the iconoclast who stole the glory

It is one of the times that prelude, sin only porteadores, very light material and greenfield. Perhaps because of this, or also for being an iconoclast with a fine sense of humor and hurtful- is so late would be replaced by Colonel John Hunt as head of the British expedition in 1953 achieved up to Everest.

bySebastián Álvaro

21 March, 2013

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Century of Mountaineering (III): Mummery, the revolutionary myopic

Considered the father of modern mountaineering, This Englishman was the best climber of his time despite his limitations, it was something ungainly and rather myopic. He disappeared on Nanga Parbat in 1895, but his legacy endures.

bySebastián Álvaro

14 February, 2013

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sebas mountaineering history alvaro

Century of Mountaineering (VIII): the conquest of the giants

Century of Mountaineering (VII): Shipton, the iconoclast who stole the glory

Century of Mountaineering (III): Mummery, the revolutionary myopic