February 2009 News, Expedition Coverage and Notes

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• NEWSFLASH: Aconcagua Horrifying video

• 02/25 Everest 2009: Manuel A. Pizarro

• 02/25 Ecuador Climbing Trip report (note these are great pictures make sure you look at them all!)

• 02/25 Ama Dablam Pictures By Frits Vrijlandt

• 02/25 Will Cross:  Dreams in Depth

• 02/24 Cho Oyu Picture Gallery

• 02/24 From the past: Winter K2 Dispatch list

• 02/24 EverestHistory.com: Sergei Bogomolov

• 02/24 Sue Ershler: The Journey to the Top

• 02/23 Martin Minarik and Dodo Kopold : Annapurna 1

• 02/23 Mountain Hardwear

• 02/23 Ginkgo biloba reduces incidence and severity of acute mountain sickness

• Fernando Gonzalez-Rubio K2 Summiter Picture show

• 02/23 Clare O'Leary

• 02/20 Oath Talking Ceremony of New Executive Body of Pakistan Association of Tour Operators (PATO)

• 02/20 Millet / OneSport Everest Boots

• 02/20 Mountain Hardwear Absolute Zero Suit Free Shipping and in stock

• 02/20 Mt Everest 2007: TOGETHER ON TOP OF THE WORLD

• 02/20 From the past: Winter K2 picture show (8 more including Robocop)

• 02/20 Book Review: Snow In The Kingdom By: Ed Webster

• 02/20 Khoo Swee Chiow

• 02/18 SummitClimb Aconcagua Dispatch: Summits

• 02/18 David F. Breashears: Motivational Speaker

• 02/18 Got your Everest boots yet?

• 02/17 Winter Pakistan Expeditions: Broad Peak summit push aborted

• 02/16 Winter Pakistan Expeditions: Broad Peak summit push is on!

• 02/16 From the past: Dave Lim: Reflections from Summit Day

• 02/16 EverestHistory.com: Heo Young-Ho

• 02/16 Wade Davis

• 02/16 Mountain Hardwear Sale

• 02/16 The Sherpas of Everest Series: Ang Karma Sherpa, first Sherpa to reach the summit of Everest in the summer of 1985 from the Tibet side.

• 02/16 Patagonia Spring is here

• 02/16 From the past: Mallory and Irvine The Final Chapter: Picture Show 1

• 02/16 Adding Spring Expeditions daily, who are we missing? email to

• 02/13 SummitClimb Aconcagua Dispatch

• 02/13 Jim Whitaker:  A Life on the Edge

• 02/13 The Sherpas of Everest Series: Dawa Nuru Sherpa (the story of many Sherpas in the pre-90's years)

• 02/13 From the past: Alan Hinkes Annapurna

• 02/13 Cloudveil Sale a few super deal left

• 02/12 Everest 2009 will be a record year, with more climbers than ever... More expeditions will be added every week

• 02/12 Peter Guggemos led an international team on Makalu with 13 summits: His picture show is here.

• 02/12 Petzl

• 02/12 Everest Summiter: Gary Neptune

• 02/12 Eugene Owen Aconcagua photo show

• 02/12 Sharon Wood: To the Summit and Beyond

• 02/10 Makalu Summited by Denis Urubko with Simone Moro

• 02/10 SummitClimb Aconcagua Dispatch

• 02/10 The Summit of Annapurna

• 02/10 Mt. Everest 2005: Sibusiso Vilane

• 02/10 EverestGear.com Clearance items added weekly

• 02/10 Gondogoro La/Concordia Trek Diary 2002 By Millicent Thapa Trip report

• 02/10 Wade Davis

• 02/10 EverestHistory.com: Ko Sang-don, the first Korean climber to Summit Everest

• 02/09 SummitClimb Aconcagua February 2009

• 02/09 Mountain Hardwear Mens sale

• 02/09 From the past: Peter Guggemos led an international team on Makalu with 13 summits: His picture show is here.

• 02/09 Everest Summiter: Gary Neptune

• 02/09 Darn Tough

• 02/09 Eugene Owen Aconcagua photo show

• 02/09 Chris Bonington

• 02/05 Everest 2009: Seven Summits Club Expedition

• 02/05 Huge Mountain Hardwear Sale

• 02/05 EverestHistory.com

• 02/05 David F. Breashears: Motivational Speaker

• 02/04 Lakpa Rita Sherpa to become first Sherpa to complete the Seven Summits

• 02/04 Mountain Hardwear

• 02/04 Adding Spring Expeditions daily email to

• 02/04 Sharon Wood

• 02/04 Patagonia

• 02/04 from the past: First ascent of North Pillar of Cerro Murallón by Stefan Glowacz and Robert Jasper

• 02/04 EverestHistory.com: Li Zhixin

• 02/04 From the past: Great Polish Winter Climbs

• 02/02 Alpine Ascents Kilimanjaro 2009

• 02/02 Bear Grylls

• 02/02 Petzl

• 02/02 EverestHistory.com: MARIJA STREMFELJ

• 02/02 From the past: Singapore Mountaineer Sets Records  in Climbing Two 6000m Peaks Solo - including World's Highest Volcano

• 02/01 EverestHistory.com

• 02/01 EverestHistory.com: Noboru Yamada summited Everest 3 times and 3 different ways.

• 02/01 Photos from the Mountain-Link Dhaulagiri Expedition

• 02/01 From the past: Winter K2 picture show

• 02/01 Rampage - DVD

• 02/01 Gregory Crouch

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