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Yuichiro Miura, an 86-year-old Japanese alpinist and professional skier, has given up on his attempt to conquer the 6,959-meter Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America, on doctor's orders, his office in Tokyo said Monday. "I was confident that I could climb to the ...
China's Baishui No. 1: One of the world's fastest-melting glaciers
A loud crack rang out from the fog above the Baishui No. 1 Glacier as a stone shard careened down the ice, flying past Chen Yanjun as he operated a GPS device. More projectiles were tumbling down the hulk of ice, which scientists say is ...
Number of fatal accidents linked to seasonal mushroom picking on the rise, police say
Japan is seeing an increase in the number of deaths related to mushroom picking, after extreme summer heat and heavy rain produced a rich crop of the seasonal delicacy this year. Many mushroom hunters, mainly elderly people, tend to go into remote areas deep in ...
Snowstorm kills at least eight South Korean climbers in Nepal
At least eight climbers from a South Korean expedition have died on Nepal's Mount Gurja after their camp was devastated by a violent snowstorm, officials said Saturday. The bodies of eight climbers — four South Koreans and four Nepali guides — were spotted among the ...
Dream comes true for South Korea's Moon Jae-in as he treks Mount Paektu with Kim Jong Un
There is no more sacred place in North Korea than Mount Paektu — and getting South Korean President Moon Jae-in to such a spot is a propaganda coup unlike any other. After Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged new steps aimed at ...
A global environmental threat made in China
From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems.
Researchers expressed concern Thursday about the rapid pace of climate change, after a glacier on Sweden's Kebnekaise mountain melted so much in sweltering Arctic temperatures that it is no longer the country's highest point. "It's quite scary," said Gunhild Ninis Rosqvist, a Stockholm University geography ...
Lava from Kilauea 'collapse explosion' destroys evacuated Hawaiian structures
A "collapse explosion" at the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on Wednesday sent a surge of lava that destroyed structures in an evacuated housing development, geologists and civil defense authorities said. The blast sparked by the gradual collapse of the volcano's crater was equivalent to ...
The three trails on the Shizuoka Prefecture side of Mount Fuji opened on July 10 at the start of the climbing season.
Record number of climbers stranded on Japanese mountains in 2017
Police say a boom in the popularity of mountaineering has led many inexperienced climbers to venture into more isolated, challenging terrain.
Decades of commercial mountaineering have turned Mount Everest into the world's highest rubbish dump as an increasing number of big-spending climbers pay little attention to the ugly footprint they leave behind. Fluorescent tents, discarded climbing equipment, empty gas canisters and even human excrement litter the ...
Advancing wall of lava from Kilaueu volcano buries housing tracts on Hawaii's Big Island
An ever-creeping wall of lava from Kilauea volcano has engulfed two entire seaside housing tracts at the eastern tip of Hawaii's Big Island, government scientists reported Wednesday, an area where civil defense officials said nearly 280 homes once stood. The obliteration of the Kapoho Beach ...
