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what is a base camp?
<photo: leaving base camp at dawn, and going on final summit climb to the peak of Mount Elbrus, southern Russia> a base camp is a place...
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mountain climbing is extended periods of intense boredom, interrupted by ...
<photo: abseiling training> approximately once every 4 years, one day is added to the month of February. with that we have 29 days in...
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it's just 5 more minutes to the peak!
<photo: at 3653m, it's just 5 more minutes to the summit of mount kinabalu. (actually it's at least another 2 more hours)> the summit...
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no one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich
<photo: dawn at the peak of Mount Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia> in the book "Outliers", the author Malcolm Gladwell claims that the key to...
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journey to the west II
<photo: El Capitan, Yosemite National Park, USA> gold was discovered on 24 January 1848 in California. prior to this entirely random...
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journey to the west I
<photo: Mogao Caves, located on the Silk Route at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Gansu province, China> the Mogao Caves, also known as...