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South African Skymarathon season off to a flying start

South African Skymarathon season off to a flying start

Don Wauchope and Mahlawe take top honours at the first two SkyMarathons of 2015 in South Africa. The first two events in the 2015 South African Skyrunner Series have ticked the boxes of both challenging and gratifying, putting runners and organisers to the test as only great races can. Drakensberg

TOJ athlete Sandeep Maity wins first All India Open Artificial Bouldering Competition

TOJ athlete Sandeep Maity wins first All India Open Artificial Bouldering Competition

Maity powers his way to the top spot in the men's category to win the maiden bouldering competition held in the Himalayan state of Sikkim. The Outdoor Journal athlete Sandeep Kumar Maity has won the first All India Open Artificial Bouldering Competition held in Sikkim on Thursday. Maity,

The making of a rock climber at Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering

The making of a rock climber at Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering

An economics student realises he needs to climb mountains as much as the corporate ladder and enrolls in the basic course in one of India's cardinal mountaineering schools, the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering. For a very long time I had been craving to do something exciting. And the

Nepal shall overcome...

Nepal shall overcome...

Despite the Himalayan nation still recovering from recent events, there is hope for its trekking and tourism industry that has withstood everything from insurgencies to calamities, says travel writer and Nepal aficionado Shikha Tripathi Years ago, on my first solo trek, I sat nervously in a little 20-seater plane as

UPDATE: Final rites of Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu amid state honours

UPDATE: Final rites of Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu amid state honours

Thousands of people turned up for the burial of Babu in his hometown in South India. The local government had a 21-gun salute in his honour. Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu who died in the Andes recently was laid to rest in his village on Saturday in the presence thousands

UPDATE: Death toll rises to 19; 61 injured and many missing on Everest as earthquake hits Nepal

UPDATE: Death toll rises to 19; 61 injured and many missing on Everest as earthquake hits Nepal

Sources claim that an avalanche triggered by a deadly earthquake has killed at least 19 people at south side of Everest base camp, with 61 injured and several climbers missing. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake has claimed thousands of lives across Nepal. At least 19 people are feared dead after an

Exclusive: Interview with Hernán Augusto Parajón provides proof of Mastan's ascent of Cerro Tres Cruces

Exclusive: Interview with Hernán Augusto Parajón provides proof of Mastan's ascent of Cerro Tres Cruces

In an exclusive interview after retrieving Malli Mastan Babu's body from the Andes his friend and coordinator of the mission told The Outdoor Journal that the Indian mountaineer had summited Cerro Tres Cruces (6749m). On heels of the Chilean mountaineer detecting and retrieving Babu's body from