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Fifty-three-year-old Gerry Egbalic and 29-year-old Ivan Cataluna conquered El Capitan — the “Mecca of Modern Rock Climbing” — in Yosemite, California earlier this month, through the fabled “The Nose” climbing route. 

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The popular and extremely challenging sport of climbing can now reach a wider audience in the country with the formation of Pilipinas Climbing Inc. (PCI) headed by obstacle racing pioneer Atty. Al Agra.

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Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki will be the first to attempt to scale the world's highest peak since the quake. Nepal's tourism minister, Kripasur Sherpa, gave Kuriki his climbing permit at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Sunday.

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Last October, the SPOT project was officially launched at The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival on Kalymnos Island in Greece through the non-profit organization Climbers Without Borders and the Once Upon A Climb initiative of James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini.

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Nepal is improving its weather forecasting, stepping up security and promising swift rescues if needed during the upcoming climbing season on Everest.

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Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite National Park.

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Sherpa guides were leaving Mount Everest's base camp on Wednesday as part of a walkout following the mountain's deadliest disaster, as some expedition companies announced that they were canceling their climbs this season.

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Fifty-three-year-old Gerry Egbalic and 29-year-old Ivan Cataluna conquered El Capitan — the “Mecca of Modern Rock Climbing” — in Yosemite, California earlier this month, through the fabled “The Nose” climbing route. 

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The popular and extremely challenging sport of climbing can now reach a wider audience in the country with the formation of Pilipinas Climbing Inc. (PCI) headed by obstacle racing pioneer Atty. Al Agra.

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Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki will be the first to attempt to scale the world's highest peak since the quake. Nepal's tourism minister, Kripasur Sherpa, gave Kuriki his climbing permit at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Sunday.

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Last October, the SPOT project was officially launched at The North Face Kalymnos Climbing Festival on Kalymnos Island in Greece through the non-profit organization Climbers Without Borders and the Once Upon A Climb initiative of James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini.

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Nepal is improving its weather forecasting, stepping up security and promising swift rescues if needed during the upcoming climbing season on Everest.

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Two men are roughly halfway through what has been called the hardest rock climb in the world: a free climb of a half-mile section of exposed granite in California's Yosemite National Park.

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Sherpa guides were leaving Mount Everest's base camp on Wednesday as part of a walkout following the mountain's deadliest disaster, as some expedition companies announced that they were canceling their climbs this season.

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