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The Curvature of the Earth by Day, a Billion Stars by Night: Walking with Camels in the Sahara

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From Mount Elbrus to Mach 2: Streaking Through Deep Purple on Concorde

A few days earlier I’d been standing on the summit of Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak, finishing another peak on my Seven Summits Solo project. The climb was behind me, and the long journey home had begun—Moscow to London, and hopefully on to New York. What follows is the original chapter from my book, written as it happened: a story of leaving Russia, chasing flights, and unexpectedly…

#7 Summits #Concorde #Elbrus #explore7summits #Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest

Why Everest? Or Perhaps, Why Not?

Every so often, someone asks me, “Why Everest?” They ask with curiosity, often laced with a bit of skepticism, and often with the unspoken assumption that maybe—just maybe—it’s time to take on something less ambitious. Something safer. And in my case, also something more age-appropriate. After all, my daughter Phoebe has proclaimed me a Geezer. Since then I’ve led a successful expedition to the…

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From Jungle Huts to Cloud Peaks: Climbing Mount Giluwe (Oceania’s Highest Volcano) and Mount Wilhelm (the 10th of the worlds’ 7 summits?) in Papua New Guinea

Where exactly is this place? Awake—where? Oh yes, a grass hut deep in the jungle. Bird calls echo over the hillside — chirps, caws, bassonic hoots, and what can only be described as the trumpet of something unseen flapping its way through the canopy. The jungle is alive with sound, near and far, layered and loud, the jungle itself just waking up. We’re in Papua New Guinea — though to pin it down…

Special Sauce, Served Cold: From Everest to Advertising

Robert Mads Anderson is one of the most accomplished professional mountain climbers of his generation and has brilliantly balanced those pursuits with a multi-decade run in the Creative Departments of advertising agencies around the world. He joins the podcast to discuss the characteristics that climbers have in common, what he learned from experiencing tragedy early in his mountaineering…

Everest 2025: Xenon-Fueled Sprints. No-Oxygen Ascents. Record-Setting Sherpa Summits

Everest 25 audio For a quick listen, under 5 minutes of audio above will get you the highlights, and lowlights too perhaps, of Everest 2025. The 2025 Everest season was a dichotomy of technology and tradition on Everest. From record-breaking ascents in under a week, to no supplemental oxygen summits, to Sherpa climbers setting yet more benchmarks, to others with records both too numerous and too…

#7 Summits #8000 meter peaks #8000 meters #Everest #explore7summits #Himalaya #Himalayas #Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest #Xenon Gas

The Need for Speed on Everest: Chasing Records in the Death Zone

Both Tyler Andrews and Karl Egloff have halted their attempted speed climbs this year on Mount Everest. With the need for ample acclimitasation time and then the need for near perfect weather, the late season variability this year has shut down both attempts. With the added challenge of needing to climb when the mountain is hopefully less populated, the season has warmed up and a few rotations…

Everest: to Xenon or Not to Xenon?

High on Everest, the air thins and the margin for error disappears. For decades, climbers have turned to oxygen tanks, acetazolamide (Diamox), dexamethasone, and occasionally even sheer grit, to get them to the top of the world. But with the 4 British Climbers summiting today using Xenon Gas for the first time, now a new way to climb is floating about —almost literally—onto the Everest scene:…

#7 Summits #8000 meter peaks #Everest #explore7summits #Himalaya #Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest #Xenon #Xenon Gas

Everest North Ridge 2025, Furtenbach Puts his First Team on Top

Furtenbach expeditions put their first group of Flash climbers atop Everest this morning at dawn. They were the only team to summit on the North today, eschewing the crowds and conga-lines which have become an inevitability on Everest’s south side for many expeditions. Rumours have 500 climbers at the South Col? Or maybe 300? All rumors – and as ever, some will just roll over and go back to bed…

#7 Summits #8000 meter peaks #8000 meters #Everest #Everest kangshung face #explore7summits #Himalaya #Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest #Scott Cutlan

Everest 2025: Ropes, Risk and the Rush to the Top of the World

The youngest American to climb the 7 summits just completed her ascent, two speed records are in progress, Tim Howell heads up the Khumbu Icefall hoping to leap off the cliffs atop Lhotse and fly back to earth. The Xenon team has arrived Base Camp, hopefully fully charged on a bit of their gas technology, and headed for the top as fast living in a Hypoxia tent, a good whiff of Xenon and a…

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Is Everest Enough? Melissa Arnot-Reid's Book - a Powerful and Rare Book on Reaching the Top of The World

Melissa Arnot’s Enough isn’t just a book; it’s a force of nature. From a deeply fractured childhood and a turbulent family life, Melissa’s journey finds an unexpected anchor in the mountains. We’re drawn into the poignant narrative of a life marked by hardship, relationships and a relentless drive to the top of the world, and the first climb without supplemental oxygen up Everest by an American…

40 days and 40 nights on The Great Himalayan Trail, Nepal

“The Great Himalaya Trail.” Just the name conjures images of towering peaks, remote valleys, and a deep wilderness experience in the heart of Nepal. That part is true – anything else you may have heard about The Trail could well be a myth. At times the trail is a myth, at time it is desperate, and at times it is pure magic – headed down from the Shipton La and Makalu Base Camp. Photo: Robert Mads…

The Tallest Sea Stack on Earth - the Magic and Mystery of Balls Pyramid in the Midst of the Tasman Sea

There was the nearly extinct, rather huge, and endemic to Ball’s Pyramid, stick insect. It lived with but a few of its kind, on the tallest volcanic sea stack on earth. Then the Pyramid, rising 561 metres (1842 feet) straight up out of the middle of the blue, blue Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand. And there was the rock itself, with but a few ascents, all by large teams. It really was…

#everyrolextellsastory #Australia #Ball&039;s Pyramid #explore7summits #Robert Mads Anderson #Sea Stacks #Steve Sanford Artist

Chapter 1. The West Ridge Direct from Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest (print and audio book)

Listen to Chapter one: Nine Lives – Expeditions to Everest The Direct West Ridge on Everest was first attempted by a French team in 1974, when 6 died in an avalanche. Its first ascent was by a strong Yugoslavian climbing team in 1979. Only a handful of people have ever summited the route, all part of large, talented and primarily Eastern European teams in an era when doing big hard new…

#Andy Politz #Bill Forrest #ed Webster #Everest #everest 1985 #explore7summits #Jay Smith #Jim Bridwell #Khumbu #Nepal #Peter Athans #Robert Mads Anderson

Can You Climb the Height of Everest in March? And if Not, Why Not? Join the Himalayan Trust's Summit Challenge.

In March each year, Sir Edmund Hillary’s Himalayan Trust raises funds through its Summit Challenge, to support its’ work in Nepal. By building schools and hospitals, staffing them and running programs on the ground there, they provide support directly to the people of Nepal. If you have been fortunate enough to visit the worlds’ tallest peaks, experienced this remarkable country and the people…

#7 Summits #8000 meter peaks #Everest #explore7summits #Himalaya #Himalayan Trust #Himalayas #Summit Challenge

The Art of the Pivot on the Lonely North Ridge of Everest in 2024

https://www.explore7summits.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Everest-With-Scott.mp3 An hours listening to this will take you from Nepal, up Ama Dablam (just for a bit of acclimitasation) and into Tibet for a rapid ascent up the North Ridge of Everest with climber Scott Cutlan. It’s a unique perspective, with his strong and unedited take on everything from the theme park of Everest’s South Side,…

#7 Summits #8000 meter peaks #Everest #explore7summits #Himalaya #Nine Lives - Expeditions to Everest #Scott Cutlan

"The definitive guide to Diamox - when to take it, how much to take, and if you should even take it at all when going to altitude?"

Acetazolamide, commonly known as Diamox, is a medication frequently used to prevent and treat altitude sickness (Acute Mountain Sickness or AMS). For those moving up from lower to higher altitudes, on common treks like Everest Base Camp or climbing Kilimanjaro, it may assist you in reaching altitude with less stress on your body, thus making your ascent more enjoyable. You may be less prone to…

#7 Summits #8000 meter peaks #8000 meters #Acclimitazation #Acetazolamide #Antarctica #Denali #Denali National park #Diamox #Everest #Everest kangshung face #explore7summits #Peter Hillary #Rolex Explorer

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