Top 10 Best Mountaineering Info, News and Resources

MOUNTAINEERING, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas that have become sports in their own right. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, and bouldering are also considered variants of mountaineering by some, but are part of a wide group of mountain sports.

Unlike most sports, mountaineering lacks widely applied formal rules, regulations, and governance; mountaineers adhere to a large variety of techniques and philosophies (including grading and guidebooks) when climbing mountains. Numerous local alpine clubs support mountaineers by hosting resources and social activities. A federation of alpine clubs, the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA), is the International Olympic Committee-recognized world organization for mountaineering and climbing. The consequences of mountaineering on the natural environment can be seen in terms of individual components of the environment (land relief, soil, vegetation, fauna, and landscape) and the location/zone of mountaineering activity (hiking, trekking, or climbing zone). Mountaineering impacts communities on economic, political, social and cultural levels, often leading to changes in people's worldviews influenced by globalization, specifically foreign cultures and lifestyles.

• Can Mount Everest really be climbed in a week? - "A commercial expedition is planning to take clients up the tallest mountain in the world in record time with the help of xenon gas. But some in the climbing and medical world worry whether the strategy is an unnecessary gamble."
• Drones can deliver supplies on Mount Everest this year & it may change climbing forever - "One challenge is money. Each drone costs $70,000, and that’s before they even begin operating."
• EIGHT-THOUSANDERS - the fourteen independent mountains on Earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level.
• Glossary of climbing terms - Wikipedia.
• Highest unclimbed mountain - Wikipedia.
• List of climbers & mountaineers - Wikipedia.
• Meindl - since 1992. "Shoes for Actives." Alpine men's & women's boots.
• Mountaineering - Wikipedia.
• Nepal issues record number of permits to climb Mount Everest - "Nepal has issued permits for a record 463 climbers so far for this spring season’s expeditions to Mount Everest even as experts worry about dangerous overcrowding at the summit. Some 367 male and 96 female climbers from 65 countries have received permission so far to scale the tallest mountain in the world from Nepal’s side, Yubaraj Khatiwada, the director of Nepal’s Tourism Department, told CNN. American and Chinese mountaineers top the list."
• Nepal to restrict Everest permits to climbers who have scaled another 7,000+ meter Nepali mountain - "Nepal, which is heavily reliant on climbing, trekking and tourism for foreign exchange, has faced criticism for permitting too many climbers, including inexperienced ones, to try to ascend the 8,849-meter (29,032 ft) Everest peak."
• They want to climb Everest in a week using an anesthetic gas. Critics warn it’s dangerous - "This month, the men - a pilot, a politician, a businessman and an entrepreneur - will attempt to summit Everest in seven days: they will fly from the UK to Kathmandu, where they will take a helicopter to base camp, and attempt to summit the mountain in a few days, before returning home in what would be a historic first. This, they hope, will be made possible by inhaling the noble gas xenon 10 days prior."