Re: [Texascavers] mountain-climbing related

2017-05-21 Thread Fritz Holt via Texascavers
David, There were once two Cypress trees in the same area. Is one still there? Sent from my iPhone > On May 21, 2017, at 12:53 PM, David via Texascavers > wrote: > > In the news today, a mountain-climber is reporting that an earthquake > has removed the Hillary Step from Mount Everest. A p

Re: [Texascavers] mountain-climbing related

2017-05-21 Thread Bill Steele via Texascavers
In the article at this link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39989992 It says this: "Mountaineers said the Hillary Step may have fallen victim to Nepal's devastating 2015 earthquake." Forty years ago, in 1977, there were three expeditions to Huautla caves (they were given the name Sistema

[Texascavers] mountain-climbing related

2017-05-21 Thread David via Texascavers
In the news today, a mountain-climber is reporting that an earthquake has removed the Hillary Step from Mount Everest. A photo he posted shows about a 20 foot piece of rock missing, and the area covered in snow, making it just a hop over some very slippery boulders. I guess one could assume th

[Texascavers] mountain-climbing related

2011-01-15 Thread David
Not caving related, ( maybe potentially related to High Altitude Alpine Caving ). I am posting this here because lots of cavers are interested in climbing news, and also, because the web-site's design integration with Google Earth is interesting. Below is a web-site blog from a solo mountain-clim