After some mysterious posts, today he revealed he will attempt Jannu East (7,468m). He will not be alone there. Americans Sam Hennessey and Michael Gardner are already on the mountain, attempting ...

Benjamin Vedrines, Leo Billon, and Nicolas Jean have aborted their summit push on Jannu East because of the health problems of one of them. A pity, since they had finished the most technical part ...

In our story earlier today about Jannu East (7,468m), we described how Benjamin Vedrines, Leo Billon, and Nicolas Jean turned around near the summit ridge as they attempted a new route up the ...

Jannu's—or Kumbhakarna—main peak is the 32nd highest in the world at 7,711 meters (over 25,000 feet). It is an important Western outlier of Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak.

Scaling Mount Jannu’s north face without fixed ropes or oxygen was “the greatest climb ever,” one expert said, far more difficult than reaching the summit of Everest. Alan Rousseau, left ...

Michael Gardner—a professional alpine-climber who scaled mountains in Denali, Alaska and Nepal—died from a fall while descending Nepal's Jannu East mountain on Oct. 7. He was 32.

Mount Jannu, also known as Khumbakarna, holds a special place in mountaineering, Anker said. It’s 290 meters short of the 8,000-meter mark, and there are only 14 summits in the world that high.

Success on Jannu! A jubilant call from expedition leader Alexander Odintsov to www.mountain.ru says it all: Alexandre Ruchkin and Dmitry Pavlenko have finally summited Jannu via the formidable North ...

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