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Mountaineering 244 images Created 27 Jul 2021

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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vinson Expedition. Dr. Lis Densmore (MR) pulls a heavy sled to Camp One, en route to becoming first woman to climb continent's 16 058-foot highest mountain. 15,918-foot Mount Tyree (third highest) is in background.  Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Dr. Lis Densmore, the first woman to climb Antarctica's highest peak, nears the 16,058' summit of Mount Vinson, often called the Vinson Massif.
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  • A mountaineer rejoices atop Mount Shinn, 3rd highest peak in Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Tourism, Mountaineers dig out stuck Adventure Network DC-4 near Patriot Hills tourist base.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Ski mountaineer Tom Day (MR), on Calley Glacier, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, during Warren Miller ski movie shoot.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Extreme skiers descend Mount Berry above Calley Glacier on Antarctic Peninsula.  Detroit Plateau background.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Ski mountaineer Brian Sisselman (MR) in powder snow on Detroit Plateau, above Calley Glacier, Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Ski mountaineer,Mike Farney climbs Mt.Berry, Danco Coast Antarctic Peninsula (MR)
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  • ANTARCTICA. Mountaineer Hector MacKenzie on bare ice glacier in southern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Fordell bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year Norman Vaughan practices crevasse rescue technique at Patriot Hills base.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Norman Vaughan (88) and his guide Vern Tejas in base camp tent. (MR)
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. 88-year old Norman Vaughan below 10,302' Mount Vaughan, located less than 300 miles from South Pole and named for Norman in 1929 by explorer Richard Byrd. Norman climbed the peak in December 1994, 2 days shy of his 89th birthday.
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  • 88-year old Norman Vaughan and his wife Carolyn wait out a storm during their first ascent of Mount Vaughan, which was named after Norman for his service with Richard Byrd in 1929.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Vern Tejas guides Norman Vaughan (88) & wife Carolyn up mountain named for Norman in 1929 by Admiral  Byrd.  (MR)
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  • Guide Vern Tejas melts water during a storm on mountaineering expedition to lead 88-year old Norman Vaughan up a mountain named for him in Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Norman Vaughan, 88, climbs towards summit on first ascent of Mount Vaughan, a 10,302-foot mountain near the South Pole that was named for him by Richard Byrd in honor of his participation in Byrd's 1929 expedition to fly over the Pole.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Mountains. Vern Tejas (MR) on false summit of 10,302-foot Mount Vaughan, near the South Pole in the Queen Maud Mountains, part of the vast Trans-Antarctic Mountains.  Mount Goodale bkg.
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  • ANTARCTICA. 88-year old Norman Vaughan, exhausted, near summit of mountain named for him by Richard Byrd in 1929.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mount Vaughan Expedition. Carolyn Muegge-Vaughan lights 89 birthday "candles" for Norman Vaughan atop 10,302' summit named for him by Richard Byrd.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Gordon Wiltsie on south ridge of Peak 3950m in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Alex Lowe (MR) climbs on Peak 3950m ("Pyramid Peak") in Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) atop a pinnacle on 2850-meter Mount Bearskin in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) above Patton Glacier in Ellsworth Mountains. 4852m Mount Tyree bkg., 2nd highest peak on continent.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in the Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree (4852m), the continent's 2nd highest mountain is in background on right and Mount Vinson (4897m), the highest massif, is in left background.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Mountaineering.  Toilet barrels for flying out human waste from Mount Vinson base camp, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Synnott ferries loads to the base of Great Sail Peak, above fog in Stewart Valley on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Expedition members exult after the first ascent of the north face of Great Sail Peak, an arctic big wall climb on Canada's Baffin Island.
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  • Mountaineers Jay Jensen & Roger Schley (MR) sit by a campfire before climbing in the Palisades region of Sierra Nevada, California (John Muir Wilderness)
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  • A mountaineer leaves camp for a climb up one of the 14,000-foot peaks above the nearby Palisade Glacier in California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • Mountaineers ascend "Gremlin's Cap"  in Chile's Cordillera Sarmiento, a previously unexplored Patagonian range.
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  • John Fischer (MR) looks at Mount Humphreys from the crest of California's  Sierra Nevada range.
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  • Mountaineer John Fischer stands atop a crag below Mount Humphreys on the crest of California's Sierra Nevada.
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  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
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  • Chris Neve rock climbing on Rundle Rock near town of Banff in Alberta's Banff National Park, Canada.
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  • A rock climber ascends Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Cascade Mountain is behind.
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  • A woman belays climbers at Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Members of a photography workshop photograph rock climbers near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Members of a photography workshop photograph rock climbers near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Photographer Bill Hatcher during a photo workshop in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Rock climbers ascend Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Rock climbers ascend Rundle rock near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Members of a photography workshop photograph rock climbers near Banff in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.
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  • Mountaineer Sam Lightner, Jr. climbs treacherous conglomerate rock on Shipton’s Arch in the arid Kara Tagh Mountains next to the hazy Taklimakan Desert near Kashagar (Kashi) in Xinjiang Province, China. Later the expedition crossed the range by descending the dangerous and unexplored slot canyon below him.
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  • Mountaineer Mark Newcomb rappels below massive Shipton's Arch in the Kara Tagh Mountains near Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.
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  • Ski Mountaineers break camp amidst blowing spindrift in the snowy Warwan Valley, en route from Ladakh to Kashmir during an expedition across India's Great Himalaya Range.
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  • SKI MOUNTAINEERING, Great Himalaya Range, India. Jay Jensen (MR) atop Gulol Pass,  during ski mountaineering expedition across Himalaya from Ladakh to Kashmir.
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  • Climbers cross a crevasse on icefall below Mount Nun.
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  • A helicopter flies below a mountaineer in the Cirque of the Unclimbables.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Queen Maud Land. Mike Graber ascends rope on overhanging cliff on Rakekniven spire, Filchner Mountains.
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  • After climbing the right hand skyline of Rakekniven Spire in Antarctica, mountaineers Conrad Anker and Jon Krakauer ski atop the mile-thick icecap surrounding it.
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  • Pertemba Sherpa demonstrates  rappelling  at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980. Mt. Ama Dablam bkg.
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  • American guides teach clinbing sherpas how to rappel in the rain at an early mountaineering school for sherpas in the Khumbu region of Nepal, 1980.
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  • An expedition skier crosses Tunabreen Glacier on Spitsbergen Island
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  • Expedition skiers climb Nemtinov Peak above Tunabreen Glacier.
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  • Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard, Norway.	Expedition skiers climb Nemtinov Peak above the Tunabreen Glacier.
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  • Climber rappels from boulder in Eastern Sierra Nevada, California.
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  • Alex Lowe and Conrad Anker stand at the bottom of Pyramid Peak in the Ellsworth Mountains of Queen Maud Land, Antarctica.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) climbs on Peak 3950m ("Pyramid") in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • A small, ski-equipped Cessna flies over the  Antarctica's southern Ellsworth Mountains
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  • ANTARCTICA, Alex Lowe (MR) climbs Mount Bearskin (2850m) in northern Ellsworth Mountains.  Mount Tyree background.
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  • Mountaineers Conrad Anker and the late Alex Lowe ascend the east ridge of Mount Bearskin, above the Patton Glacier in Antarctica's Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • Antarctica. Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker (MR) ski on Patton Glacier. Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker (MR) ski on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains. 15,915' Mt. Tyree bkg. (Antarctica's 2nd highest peak)
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  • Antarctica. Alex Lowe, Conrad Anker & Dave Hahn (MR) approach Mt. Tyree. Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Alex Lowe & Conrad Anker(MR) camped on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA.  Ski-equipped Twin Otter lands on Patton Glacier, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Twin Otter ski plane flies by 16,067' Mt. Vinson Massif (Antarctica's highest summit).  Ellsworth Mts.
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  • Mt. Vinson Massif (16, 059') Antarctica's highest summit. Ellsworth Mts.
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  • The seldom-seen northeast side of Mount Tyree (4852m), Antarctica's second highest mountain, towers above the Patton Glacier in the Ellsworth Mountains.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Expedition ties down Twin Otter in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Conrad Anker (MR) in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA. Conrad Anker (MR) sets up tent in violent storm near Mt.Vinson, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • ANTARCTICA, Alex Lowe (MR) runs beside bare ice glacier below Patriot Hills, Ellsworth Mts.
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  • Hanging Portaledge camp & haul bags high on Great Sail Peak, Baffin Island, Canada.
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  • A lesser known summit of India's Great Himalaya range, near Pahalgam, Kashmir, glows in a morning sunrise.
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  • The shadow of Mount Nun stretches far west from the crest of India's Great Himalaya Range in Kashmir/Ladakh.
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  • A mountaineer scrambles across a narrow arete in the Cirque of the Unclimbables, Northwest Territories,Canada.
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  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard approaches 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • A vehicle drives below 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, the world’s second-highest historically active volcano, on the vast South American Altiplano.
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  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard meets with his team during an expedition to 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • Argentine Archaeologist Dr. Constanza Cerruti sifts through site of an Inca rest house below   22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where she helped to find the world’s highest mummies from an ancient sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology team let by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice. Behind are arid mountains and valleys of the vast South American Altiplano.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
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