They find the body of Thierry Renault, one of the great French mountaineers of the 80s and 90s
The 68-year-old high mountain guide is believed to have died when the rope he was hanging from while setting up a climbing route was cut by a rock outcrop
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Miriam García Pascual, the myth of the mountaineer who died young and left a book devoured by several generations as a legacy
‘Bájame una estrella’, written by the climber and published in 1991, was the first book of the Desnivel publishing house and with more than 35,000 copies sold it remains the reference book of its catalog
They declare Nirmal Purja and his nine companions dead on Broad Peak while the difficult task of recovering their remains continues
The guiding company led by the famous Nepalese Himalayan climber confirms the magnitude of one of the worst tragedies recently recorded in the Karakoram
Nirmal Purja, the controversial record-breaking Himalayan climber, disappears along with nine more mountaineers on Broad Peak
Four bodies have been found lifeless after the avalanche that swept away the group of the Nepali mountaineer from the mountain on Thursday, famous for climbing the 14 eight-thousanders in six months, and who had left the base camp seeking the summit a few hours earlier
90 years since the greatest tragedy in the history of mountaineering: the agony of Toni Kurz on the north face of the Eiger
In July 1936, the four climbers who were attempting to scale the wall for the first time died, leading to a horror story that shaped the way mountaineering was narrated for decades… until Ueli Steck arrived