#Mountaineering

IrishWomenInHistory

IrishWomenin

THREAD1/8Lizzie le Blond was born into a wealthy family, the Hawkins-Whitsheds, in 1860. She grew up in #Greystones, Co. #Wicklow. As a young woman, Lizzie spent time in #Switzerland, where

Everest Today

EverestToday

I'm not here to defend using Oxygen on eight-thousanders is fair or unfair, but, those who think mountaineering is sport, specially eight-thousander, It's not only challenge about thin air. (1/4)

Eugene Kan

eugenekan

1/ The reddit debate rages on. Is @Arcteryx losing its way by doing a collabo with Palace/Jil Sander because it's moving away from its core? Can it not cater to

Kushal Kumar Sinha

KushalSinha001

What goes into the training of an IPS officer ? We've heard many cribbing about IPS officers not able to lead units.Let me draw a line between Police and Military

Alpine Club

thealpineclub

As part of LGBT+ History Month, we profile 3 LGBT+ climbers, starting with Geoffrey Winthrop Young. 1/10 'GWY' as he was widely known, was a titan in the mountaineering world.

Maha.

Yousafzais_

Pakistan is home to world’s five peaks above 8000 metres and more than 100 peaks above 7000 metres. Owing to these spectacular peaks Pakistan can be truly called as the

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

For a host of reasons I have been very skeptical of switching vaccination protocols midstream to a single vaccination approach with later followup. @Bob_Wachter is a very thoughtful doctor and

swarnim bharat

a_sandhan

Everyone is surprised how this country survived last 70 yrsMajority of editors n intellectuals predicted Balkanization of India after collapse of USSRBharatvarasha is till intact n progressing wellFew may know

Getty

GettyMuseum

Chess is one of the world's oldest and most popular games. It's often depicted in art as the ultimate intellectual showdown.Here are three stories about chess from art history: If

Kamran On Bike

kamranonbike

Thread for #k2winterexpedition2021 and challenges faced by local mountaineers like #alisadpara.For every four people who summited K2, one died on the mountain. On 1st August 2008, 25 climbers left the

Bert Macklin

ab_oggy_

Point made by @Mooroo4 perfectly sums it up of what we are as nation. We only realise someone is a HERO, once they are gone. What did we do all

William Dalrymple

DalrympleWill

Tragic news from Old Delhi: the dome of the Masjid Mubarak Begum (aka the Rundi ki Masjid) just collapsed.... Mubarak Begum was wife of Sir David Ochterlony. She started off

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UrbaniteAlaska

You know what really pisses me off? I mean really pisses me off. My Grandfather was an orphan during the Depression. He fought and he suffered and he did his

Vandana 🇮🇳

1967Vandana

A flood of memories of our visit to Leh..in 2012..the second picture clicked by my daughter was published in the EVS book of NCERT..with due credits to @anindit28 ...Ladakh is

Harpreet

CestMoiz

1So the near demilitarization of #Siachen some time in the first decade of this millennium is back in news!Let me do my own bit by laying here some facts about

David D

DavidDi73100612

Walking the ground of a battlefield gives you so much better perspective. Christmas 1985 I was in the Falklands and we rode motorcycles to Top Malo House, some 40km West

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