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Nanga Parbat, Denis Urubko, Elizabeth Revol and Adam Bielecki. Photo. FB Adam Bielecki

Nanga Parbat happy and unhappy end

Tomasz Mackiewicz (nangadream.blogspot.com)

The end of the rescue operation at Nanga Parbat. Joy and sadness, success and loss.

From outside online.com (Ahmed Sajjad Zaidi/Creative Commons)

"Rescue on the Killer Mountain" - in Outside

Like a real-life, wilderness episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Base Camp Alpha

Barneo Ice Camp

Preparations for 2018 Barneo North Pole Ice Camp are in full swing

Aleksander Doba on the cover of NYT Magazine March 25, 2018 Photo. Joakim Eskilosen

Aleksander Doba on the cover of NYTimes Magazine

The team of Scott Gilmour, Michael Stevenson and Rob Trigwell completed the 639 km journey in 12 days, 21 hours and 13 minutes.

British Team Sets New Lake Baikal Speed Record

Pete Casey crossing the Amazon jungle.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters of the Amazon

Lunger and Moro climbed in the alpine style in extremely low temperatures

Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger Climb the “Coldest Mountain”

Will Steger, at the age of 73, will take on his biggest solo expedition yet.

Will Steger to cross the Barren Lands solo at 73

News from Around the World

Aerospace Policy Paper Explores the Next Steps in Space Development

Senate OK’s New NASA Head by Razor-Thin Margin

NASA Space Flight

Station science excellent; Commercial Cargo-2 contracts making good strides

African Aerospace (Africa)

SAA retains 4-Star Skytrax ranking

Russian Space News (Russia)

Progress MS-08 docked with ISS

Space Policy Online

Bridenstine to be Sworn In As NASA Administrator April 23

Scietech Europe Space (Europe)

Airbus adds precision to Sentinel-3 satellite

Lyrid Meteor Shower 2018: When, Where & How to See It

US Senate narrowly confirms Trump's new NASA chief

March's Stellar Space Photos

Expedition Dispatches

Go Taikonauts (China)

Underwater training suit for astronauts makes debut in Beijing

Walking on the Moon – underwater

NASA Engineers Dream Big with Small Spacecraft

ULA Atlas V Launch to Feature Full Complement of Aerojet Rocketdyne Solid Rocket Boosters

CNBC names Axiom Space as one of 29 Companies Likely to Receive Major Funding

Pythom Lab

It's beautiful.

PythomSpace: New Home

We had arrived the Slabs to experiment what it may be like to - instead of bringing a structure - build a Mars habitat from local resources.

Pythom Space: Base Camps on Other Planets

The old patent begins to materialize.

Pythom Labs: Resurrecting Apollo

Yours truly browsing locations for a rocket shop.

Space Lab Hunting in Sierra Gold Country

V2 liquid-propellant missile engines, precursors of present rocket engines. Compare to other gadgets of the time.

PythomSpace: Mars engine, point zero

Lab update: MAV on the table (PythomSpace)

Michal speeding in La Paz

Labs: Adventure Wheelchair Bike

Cocoa beach 2017 edition, Baja California.

Labs: Pythom Space Camp Cocoa Beach, 2017

The cluster sketch.

PythomSpace Lab Update: MAV Taking Shape

"Napkin" concept-scribble of our MAV. Computer-aided design and drafting and test print of model parts are coming up this month.

Lab update: Alpine style to Mars, MAV

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Photos we received from the Master of the Baltic Light

Rudder repaired! Aleksander Doba back on his route in the Atlantic

Simone Moro - The authority on winter alpinism

Interview: Simone Moro on winter K2

Mount Everest Expedition

Tomasz Mackiewicz (nangadream.blogspot.com)

The end of the rescue operation at Nanga Parbat. Joy and sadness, success and loss.

Interview: Denis Urubko on Winter Ascent of K2

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan at Manaslu BC last year. They have previously climbed Manaslu and Dhaulagiri together. The two are amongst the strongest climbers currently active in Himalayas.

(Updated) Alberto Zerain, Mariano Galvan Missing on Mazeno Ridge, Avalanche at Tracker Location

Photo. Piotr Chmielinski

Accident of Aleksander Doba on the ocean ends his 3rd Transatlantic Kayak Expedition

Feather3 20 Watt

Feather3 20W Solar

Aleksander Doba on the cover of NYT Magazine March 25, 2018 Photo. Joakim Eskilosen

Aleksander Doba on the cover of NYTimes Magazine

Jet storm on Everest

Ueli Steck: After the Smoke has Cleared (Editorial)

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan general accident image area, Nanga Parbat-8125m

Debrief: Nanga Parbat Rescue attempt of Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan

Aleksander Doba in Le Conquet, France. Sept. 3, 2017 Photo. Piotr Chmielinski

Aleksander Doba crosses the Atlantic in his kayak for the third time!

2016: New World Record holders Ivar Tollefsen, Trond Hilde, Robert Caspersen

Greenland Ski World Record - Breaking News

Tomasz Mackiewicz (nangadream.blogspot.com)

K2 to help Nanga Parbat – dramatic waiting

Photo: Received from the Master of the Baltic Light

How "Baltic Light" Helped Aleksander Doba

Gieneczko and Skelton claimed full length Amazon River runs, but started below the difficult whitewaters. (All images can be viewed in larger size in this top scroll.)

Stealing the Amazon

Shadow of Everest draws to rising Moon, as seen from near summit.

Everest Summits without Bottled Oxygen from Northside and Tragedy on Southside; Makalu Ascents (Updated)

Summit after two years at last. Sherpa report.

South Side Triumph: Sherpa Summit Mount Everest

Aleksander Doba on the Atlantic. Photo Adam Rutkiewicz

Aleksander Doba already on European Waters

Pakistan List of Expeditions 2016

K2 Photo. Robert Jucha

K2 Last Standing 8k - Winter Expedition

[UPDATE 2] Risto Hallikainen, solo South Pole return ski attempt (Interview)

Wanda Rutkiewicz Photo. S Bidzinski, Wikimedia Commons (Poland 1975-76)

K2 - Remembering Wanda Rutkiewicz

Mathieu Maynadier and Jeremy Rumebe on GII during first summit push. Photo: Boyan Petrov

Summer 2017 Update: GII & Broad Peak Summits, K2 Teams Ready for the Push

Aron Anderson and guide Doug Stoup, training earlier this year in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

Updated: 2016-17 Antarctica Ski Expedition List by Explorersweb/Pythom

K2 Abruzzi Ridge

Nanga Parbat, Denis Urubko, Elizabeth Revol and Adam Bielecki. Photo. FB Adam Bielecki

Nanga Parbat happy and unhappy end

Selfie of Mike Horn a week ago (no recent photos available yet.) He expressed gratitude to sastrugi: "I would like to thank the Sastrugi making me a better and stronger person, teaching me who I am, teaching me there is a way through the wall"

Mike Horn completed Antarctica Traverse

South Pole winter mid-winter 2012. “Outside lights disturb several of our very light sensitive experiments so we only use our red headlamps while outside," Sven Lidstrom told Explorersweb from the South Pole. Image taken at the 90°S sign board with the SP Station building in the background.

Kenn Borek Air South Pole rescue: UPDATED

List of Everest and Himalaya expeditions Spring 2017

Everest BC. Ryan: "When we first got here, people were a bit jumpy when there was a big avalanche near base camp"

Checking in with Everest: About Ueli, Messner, Logistics and Tracking (Interview)

“Weather falling apart and no place to bivouac. Climb on; search harder; need rest.” - Kyle Dempster about their attempt on the face in 2015.

Climbers Missing on Baintha Brakk II (6980m); UPDATE

Hank: "I love challenging convention in bicycles."

Cycle Antarctica: Hank van Weelden Pole to Coast attempt (Interview)

Elisabeth Revol and Tomasz Mackiewicz

Drama on Nanga Parbat: Mackiewicz and Revol fighting to survive

‘Swiss Machine’ Ueli Steck killed in Mt Everest accident

Aussie Everest summiteer Andrew Lock.

Another unnecessary death on Everest?

Cho Oyu NF New Route Attempt

Bad weather continues challenging the Annapurna climbers.

Spring 2017: Tragedy, Quiet Base Camps, Bad Weather, and Considering Summit-Bids Options

"I'm independent, I sleep where I stop and move walking or paragliding. I'm free everywhere I go: I have no team, assistance or other. "

"Flight of the Century": Chat with Broad Peak Birdman Antoine Girard

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Tomasz Mackiewicz (nangadream.blogspot.com)

The end of the rescue operation at Nanga Parbat. Joy and sadness, success and loss.

Aleksander Doba on the cover of NYT Magazine March 25, 2018 Photo. Joakim Eskilosen

Aleksander Doba on the cover of NYTimes Magazine

Tomasz Mackiewicz (nangadream.blogspot.com)

K2 to help Nanga Parbat – dramatic waiting

Nanga Parbat, Denis Urubko, Elizabeth Revol and Adam Bielecki. Photo. FB Adam Bielecki

Nanga Parbat happy and unhappy end

Elisabeth Revol and Tomasz Mackiewicz

Drama on Nanga Parbat: Mackiewicz and Revol fighting to survive

Elisabeth Revol is now recovering in hospital from severe frostbite

Elisabeth Revol Describes Nanga Parbat Rescue

Denis and the winter K2 expedition are making progress, having recently set up their second camp

Winter K2: Denis Urubko Reports

Denis Urubko reports on weather conditions as the winter K2 team set up Camp 3

Interview: Denis Urubko describes the current conditions on K2

K2 Photo. Kuno Lechner/Wikimedia Commons

Denis Urubko is leaving K2

Tomek had tied himself to this one great challenge, to achieve a winter ascent of Nanga Parbat

Tomek “Czapkins” Mackiewicz: A Life Unconquered

Denis Urubko has headed up K2 alone in an effort to reach the summit before the end of February

Winter K2: Urubko Breaks from Team, Ascends Alone

Bill Hanlon on route to the South Pole in 2009

Interview: Bill Hanlon on skiing the Northwest Passage

Adam shows off his injuries, which although dramatic are not said to be serious

Winter K2: Bielecki Hit by Rock; Urubko back in action

Barneo Ice Camp

Preparations for 2018 Barneo North Pole Ice Camp are in full swing

The latest news from K2, via Denis Urubko and Russian Climb

Winter K2: Urubko scouts the eastern face, sets up Camp 2

Krzysztof Wielicki, leader of Winter K2 Expedition. Photo. Piotr Tomala

End of K2 Winter Conquest!

Close-up CAD rendering of AstereX pintle.

PythomSpace: Live Dashboard and 3D Printed Engine

Elizabeth Hawley, creator of the Himalayan Database, has sadly passed away

Elizabeth Hawley: The Sherlock Holmes of the Mountaineering World

Lunger and Moro climbed in the alpine style in extremely low temperatures

Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger Climb the “Coldest Mountain”

The team of Scott Gilmour, Michael Stevenson and Rob Trigwell completed the 639 km journey in 12 days, 21 hours and 13 minutes.

British Team Sets New Lake Baikal Speed Record

The Dark Ice team burning off some energy before setting off from Yellowknife, Canada (Jan 13th 2018)

Reboot of the Dark Ice Project

Maximo started his Andes 6,000m+ project back in 2008

Prominence or Dominance: What Makes a Mountain?

Hannah McKeand has made several journeys to the South Pole, however her plans for a 2018 North Pole expedition have come to a sudden halt

Helicopter Crash Forces British Explorer to Abandon North Pole Trek

In November 2017, four adventurers - three Polish and one Irish - set out to try and understand the mysteries of the Colombian Amazon.

A Journey to the Sistine Chapel of the Amazon Jungle – Part 1

Will Steger, at the age of 73, will take on his biggest solo expedition yet.

Will Steger to cross the Barren Lands solo at 73

Maximo's project has now covered 10 years and 3 countries

Interview: Maximo Kausch on the Underexplored Andes

Shane Young, Michał Dzikowski, Maciej Tarasin and Dominik Szczepański at Jaguar Sanctuary in Columbia. Photo. Michał Dzikowski

Chiribiquete - Expedition to Colombian Amazon

The Spectre team accomplished their main objective, to climb what Leo has called "the most remote mountain on earth"

Antarctica 2017: Spectre and the Ice Maidens Wrap Up

The final installment of our 3 part series on the journey to the Sistine Chapel of the Amazon

Waterfalls, White Water and Wonder: A Journey to The Sistine Chapel of The Amazon Part 3

Louis-Philippe Loncke / Eastern Arthurs 2007.

Tasmania Winter Trek

In part 1 the expedition had accomplished the very first stage of their journey, and with valuable local help they hoped to avoid any confrontations with the remaining FARC fighters in the area.

Surviving FARC and Pit Vipers: A Journey to the Sistine Chapel of the Amazon Jungle Part 2

Swimming with giant red-eye Piranha in the Rio Caicara. Photo Pete Casey

The Emerald City, Amazonia

Pete Casey crossing the Amazon jungle.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters of the Amazon

Like a real-life, wilderness episode of The Big Bang Theory.

Base Camp Alpha

From outside online.com (Ahmed Sajjad Zaidi/Creative Commons)

"Rescue on the Killer Mountain" - in Outside

Outriger Canoe on the Amazon. Photo. Igor Vianna, Canoa Paidegua

Amazon & Tapajos Rivers - Outrigger Canoe Expeditions

Events and Expeditions

Outriger Canoe on the Amazon. Photo. Igor Vianna, Canoa Paidegua

Amazon & Tapajos Rivers - Outrigger Canoe Expeditions

mardi Himal Trek Nepal

Last full day of skiing on the Last Degree to the South Pole. (by Eric Lillstrom)

PolarExplorers South Pole/Vinson Expeditions

Borge and Vincent carrying again back and forth on the moraine of the massive Columbia Glacier and managed to pull sleds at the end of the day, until they realized the damage done to the sleds.

Chugach Mountains: Ousland and Colliard on another Glacier

Summer 2017 Pakistan List of Expeditions

Antarctica 2018-19: Peninsula Plateau Traverse

Sea Gypsies - Arctic Sailing Expedition

Northwest Passage 2018 - Sailing Expedition

www.ManasluClimb.com - World's eighth highest & most accessible 8000 metre/26,200 foot peak in Nepal. High altitude "easy" snow climb.

www.ManasluClimb.com - World's eighth highest & most accessible 8000 metre/26,200 foot peak in Nepal

List of Everest and Himalaya expeditions Spring 2017

Eric and Tim cycling in Mongolia.

Polar People on the move

Crowd

Wounded Warriors for Wildlife

Beyond the Smile Documentary

shape foundation nepal

MountaiNow - Safer Together

GALAXY PHOTOGRAPHER'S PLANNER AND HANDBOOK

Emma Tamsin Kelty during South Pole training.

Emma Tamsin Kelty, South Pole for Cancer

Henry Worsley's solo South Pole crossing

In a wet field in Ballogie sat the mighty Avalon, from left to right: Nikki Brown with Baloo, Lisa Furness, and Don Lennox

Ocean Row Events's fundraising

"As outlined in the Capital needs summary above, we require a total of $800K to achieve all of the proposed outcomes (apart from the documentary for which funds are being raised separately)."

Breaking the Cycle South Pole by Kate Leeming

This documentary is at its essence a portrait of movement, how it relates to our goals and dreams, and how it changes our motivations and perspectives.

15 year journey to reclaim movement

Trips and Courses

At summit of island Peak

Island Peak Climbing with Everest Base Camp

Polar Expedition Training Course with Hannah McKeand

Polar Expedition Training Course 2017

Polar Expedition Training Course with Hannah McKeand

Hawaiian Outrigger Canoes on the Amazon

Amazon River Expedition 2017 - with Hawaiian Outrigger Canoes

www.EverestGlacierSchool.com

www.EverestGlacierSchool.com -- www.LobucheClimb.com

Across a crevasse on the North Col

www.EverestTrainingClimbTibet.com

www.LhotseExpedition.com

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: www.LhotseExpedition.com

www.EverestTrainingClimb.com - Team member crossing a ladder over a deep crevasse in the massive Khumbu Icefall.

www.EverestTrainingClimb.com

For caption please visit www.BaruntseNews.com

www.BaruntseClimb.com

Caption @ www.AconcaguaSummitClimb.com

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Atamos Ninja Recorder

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Comments

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Piotr Chmielinski

Frankdecourt - answer to your question:

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Annapurna Base Camp looks like a tiny white paradise encircled by the high mountain in Nepal.

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