Category: Mount Kilimanjaro

Doug Hansen was an American mountaineer and postal worker who perished in the Mount Everest catastrophe in 1996. Hansen, nicknamed the "mailman" because of his occupation, was a member of Rob Hall's Adventure Consultants team, which attempted to summit Everest during the 1996 climbing season. Unfortunately, due to a combination of factors such as poor decision-making, a fierce blizzard, and unexpected delays, the expedition turned disastrous. Universal Studios released the financially successful film 'Everest' in 2015, starring Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Kelly, and others. It eventually made $203 million globally. The film was inspired by true occurrences. Doug Hansen, the mailman who conquered Everest, was played by John Hawkes in the film. About Doug Hansen, "The Mailman" Doug Hansen, born in 1949 in Seattle, Washington, grew up in poverty. Hansen worked two jobs to make ends meet. He was a mail worker as well as a driver. Growing up in poverty did not deter him from aspiring to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the planet. Mount Rainier, which is 59 miles southwest of Seattle, may have influenced Hansen. He was resolved to climb Everest as he grew older. Doug Hansen, the 'mailman' who climbed Mount Everest, is an average man who accomplished an exceptional achievement. Hansen's tale is one of tenacity, dedication, and the triumph of the human spirit. Hansen tried to climb Mount Everest in 1995 as part of an Adventure Consultants trip headed by Rob Hall, an established New Zealand climber. Due to severe weather, he had to turn back barely 300 meters from the peak. Hansen was unable to consider a second try since the charge to climb Everest under Rob's guidance was $65,000 per person. However, because Hall liked Doug, he offered a significant discount in fees to climb

Two of Britain's top mountain climbers went missing on Mount Everest's Tibetan side and are considered dead in the year 1982. The climbers, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, were last seen at roughly 27,000 feet late on May 17 1982 as they prepared to ascend a second rock-and-ice pinnacle on the mountain's unclimbed east-northeast ridge. They were never seen again once radio communication was lost. Two days earlier, at around 26,500 feet, the sole woman on an American group making the first climb of Mount Everest's north face was murdered. Marty Hoey, a mountain guide from Tacoma, Wash., plummeted thousands of feet into a chasm. Her body could not be found. Both crews failed in their attempts to climb the world's highest peak without using oxygen. Members began returning to Peking on Saturday. The leader appeared to be shaken. Mr. Boardman and Mr. Tasker's absence was not made public until Saturday, when the expedition's commander, Chris Bonington, returned. He was devastated by the setback and only talked to a small number of British journalists. Mr. Bonington stated in his report to the Chinese Mountaineering Association, a copy of which was made public, that while he looked from below via binoculars, his two red-suited comrades vanished at twilight behind the second of two large pinnacles. Mr. Bonington, who was too fatigued to pursue them, came to the conclusion that Mr. Boardman and Mr. Tasker had fallen down the 10,000-foot Kangshung cliff, which is covered in extremely steep snow. ''It seemed unimaginable that they could have remained out of sight four nights and five days, unless some calamity occurred, particularly at that altitude, where the human body deteriorates extremely fast, especially when they were not utilizing oxygen,'' Mr. Bonington wrote in his report. Four Major Climbers Mr. Bonington's trip consisted of just

Marty Hoey, who would have become the first American woman to climb Everest, died over forty years ago in 1982, somewhere above 8000 meters on Everest's North Face, several thousand feet into a crevasse. She was never seen or heard from again. She took part in the 1982 Mount Everest Expedition, which attempted to summit the hitherto unclimbed Tibetan North Ridge. According to reports, Hoey did not correctly fasten her climbing harness and died as the expedition reached its No. 6 advance camp at 26,600 feet. According to Jim Wickwire, who was behind her as she leaned back and then separated from a fixed rope, "a day or two later, she would have stood a very good chance of becoming the first woman from this country to reach the summit." The expedition was the first American group to tackle Everest from the north in decades, the result of an emerging détente with China, which had blocked Tibet to Westerners in general and climbing in particular. Despite the fact that the attempt ended in tragedy, the team was instrumental in reopening the doors to exploration and mountaineering in Tibet. The team members were among the best mountaineers in the United States at the time. Marty Hoey, 31, who did not return home, deserves special recognition for who she was and the road she blazed. Marty was a person of ethics and integrity who was personable and fun-loving. She adored Mount Rainier and was proud to be a member of Rainier Mountaineering Inc. She admired her friend and mentor Lou Whittaker and had a strong bond with her fellow guides. She climbed Rainier over 100 times and worked as a Denali guide for RMI; she also participated in the 1974 USSR-USA Pamir Expedition, during which she climbed Pik Lenin, and the 1976

Africa's tallest tree has been discovered on Mount Kilimanjaro and it comes with no surprise at all as this is where the tallest mountain in Africa is located. It most certainly is a contender for the tallest tree in the continent of Africa. An isolated valley on the highest peak in the continent, Kilimanjaro, is home to Africa's tallest native tree, which stands at an incredible 81.5 meters. The imported Sydney blue gum (Eucalyptus Saligna) specimen in Limpopo, South Africa, which perished in 2006, set the previous record for the tallest tree in Africa. The colossus in Tanzania has now surpassed that mark. Twenty years ago, while investigating Mount Kilimanjaro's vegetation, Andreas Hemp of the University of Bayreuth in Germany discovered a group of towering Entandrophragma excelsum trees. However, it took a while for him and his crew to be able to precisely measure their heights using new instruments. Between 2012 and 2016, they used laser tools to measure 32 specimens, and they discovered that the 10 highest ones varied in height from 59.2 to 81.5 meters and in diameter from 0.98 to 2.55 meters. Hemp calculates that the arboreal behemoths are 500–600 years old based on growth rates. The tallest trees in the world are often not located in Africa; a 116-meter-tall sequoia tree may be found in North America, and a 100-meter-tall eucalyptus can be found in Australia. This is largely due to a lack of research on African trees, which leads to the understudied nature of many of the continent's tree species, as well as the fact that many of the continent's tree species thrive in areas with little resources, which restrict them from growing too tall. The latter is not the case in Kilimanjaro, where the growth of E. excelsum has likely been aided by a

Andrew Irvine, known as "Sandy" to family and friends, was an engineering student from Merton College, Oxford, who disappeared on Everest with George Mallory in 1924. Several expeditions have been on a search mission to find his body that vanished on Mount Everest, over a hundred years ago in vain. Update:  Andrew Irvine remains found on Everest.   His partner's body, George Mallory was found 75 years later after their accident near the Yellow Band, before Camp 4 in 1999, but there was no trace of Andrew Irvine's body, leading to conspiracies and speculations. There is a possibility Andrew Irvine and Mallory fell somewhere between the First Step and the lower exit of the gully that modern climbers use above Camp VI to get through the Yellow Band. In fact, Conrad Anker and the team thought they had stumbled upon Irvine's body when they found Mallory. Now the question is, how did they identify it was Mallory and not Irvine's body? Jake who was with Conrad Anker stumbled upon a tag from the manufacturer that caught all of their attention, causing us to lean in for a closer look. Directly below that label was a meticulously stitched one bearing the name "G. Mallory." They all paused what they were doing and exchanged puzzled glances... but their initial words were something like 'What reason would Andrew Irvine have for wearing George Mallory's shirt?' Then it dawned on them, they had not stumbled upon Irvine. They had not come across Wang Hong Bao's "Old English Dead." They were standing in the presence of George Leigh Mallory himself. Despite being just two months into his 23rd year when he went missing, his story has been overshadowed by that of Mallory, who was already a hero in the public's eyes. However, Irvine's fate is