Everest North Face, the routes: 1. North Ridge to Northeast Ridge, 1960 F.A. Qu Yinhua, Wang Fuzhou, Gong Bu 2. Messner North Face Route, 1980 F.A. Reinhold Messner 3. Great Couloir Direct (or Norton ...

The 1980 Japanese and 1986 Swiss routes on the North Face of Everest. Loretan and partners climbed along the rib to the right of the 1980 Japanese Couloir. They would reach the Japanese route at ...

Everest 2017: New Routes, New Records, ... and Unsoeld ascended the West Ridge from Camp 2, traversed over to the eponymous Hornbein Couloir on the north face, ...

John Bagnulo, 36, Freeman TownshipThe first Mainer to summit Mount Everest this year, on May 11, his 36th birthday, climbing the North Face route from Tibet. Along with Bill Yeo, 40, of Durham ...

The last route to be added to Everest was completed on 20 May 2009 by a South Korean expedition (Jin Jan-chang, Kang Ki-seok, Shin Dong-min, Park Young-seok) up the mountain’s SW Face. In 2004 the ...

Mountaineers Are Taking a New Route Up Everest ... which will take them from 21,325 feet to over 26,000 feet along the mountain’s Northeast Face before joining the traditional North Ridge route.

The North Face Everest Ski Project architected by top American climbers has ended citing a bad weather condition as well as time constraint after the team reached above Camp III via Hornbein ...

Most teams are now settled into Everest Base Camp on the South Side. Meanwhile, on the North Side in Tibet, everything is ready, and international teams will start climbing within a few days ...

The central route isn’t really new — it has been used by mountaineers climbing Everest’s south face since 1953, according to National Geographic.But the path was changed in favor of the more ...