– It’s no small task for a carmaker to insert itself successfully into an already well-established segment, but, as Tom Hanks reminded us in the baseball classic A League of Their Own, some things are worth doing because they are hard. Maybe Kia was riding a wave of Jimmy Dugan inspiration when it decided to […]
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WATCH: Rock climber narrowly escapes death when THIS happens to cliff face in Spain
The rock climber was in the midst of clearing a new climbing path when he hit a life-threatening obstacle. Stefan Barthel had hoisted himself up to near the top of the cliff in Chulilla. But as he tried to latch onto the next section with his pick, he accidentally caused an enormous rock fall. A […]
World’s most famous climber ‘The Swiss Machine’ falls to his death near Everest
Published time: 30 Apr, 2017 16:12 The world’s most famous climber has died in the Everest region of Nepal while preparing to climb the highest peak on the planet without the aid of oxygen. Ueli Steck, 40, fell 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) to the foot of Mount Nuptse, a smaller peak in the Everest region, […]
To conquer Everest an insane 7th time, this climber is going high tech
Over the past nine years, professional climber and mountain guide Adrian Ballinger summitted Earth’s highest mountain — Mount Everest — an astonishing six times, with two coming in the span of just three weeks. An avid adventurer, what particularly sets Ballinger apart from the budding crowd of climbers annually taking to the Nepalese peak rests […]
Ice climber survives grizzly bear attack by prying jaws off his leg in Banff attack
Boswell survived by grabbing the grizzly’s face, prying open its jaws and screaming until the bear ran back into the woods Two British ice climbers have narrowly escaped an encounter with a grizzly bear in Canada’s Banff National Park. Greg Boswell and Nick Bullock were climbing Mount Wilson on Nov. 29 when the bear began […]