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Wednesday, 07 May 2025
📰 The most important mountaineering and mountain news of the last week. 👇 pic.twitter.com/FcKi9Oqsoy
- Travesia (@SendaPirenaica) May 7, 2025
- The news... A group of seven people, identified as mountaineers and ecologists, cut a dozen pegs in Cotatuero, Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. (Desnivel)on 6 May. They justified their action as an attempt to "return the sanctuary of the bucardos and grouse to nature", arguing that the pegs were transforming the area into a via ferrata prohibited under the park's Use and Management Plan. The National Park has temporarily closed the route to avoid accidents. -Historic pegs, which I don't think were doing "no one any harm", especially with the blatant environmental abuses we are seeing all over the place.
- In their sixties, Meroi, Benet and Hámor continue to open routes where no one has gone before: first ascent of the west face of Kabru I (7,492 m), in the heart of the Himalaya. (Barrabes). What started as acclimatisation ended up as a historic line, traced in pure alpine style. Next up? Maybe Yalung Peak, his unfinished goal from last year.
- Alex Pancoe died at Makalu Camp 2, at 6,600 metres, while sleeping after a day's acclimatisation. (Turiski). A survivor of a brain tumour and leukaemia, he had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam and raised almost a million dollars for children's cancer research. His latest challenge: to climb Makalu and donate a dollar for every foot of altitude. He left without a summit, but with the summit well marked.
- 🚫 The GR11, cut near Bujaruelo. An avalanche of mud and logs has blocked the section between the Bujaruelo refuge and the Santa Elena Bridge.
Montaña Segura recommends avoiding the area and taking the alternative forest track from the campsite.
GR 11 between Bujaruelo refuge and Santa Elena bridge cut off by an avalanche of mud and logs.
- Montaña Segura (@montana_segura) May 2, 2025
Avoid walking this section of the GR 11, choosing instead to walk along the forest track between @Rbujaruelo y #campingvalledebujaruelo.@112Aragon @internetfam pic.twitter.com/YxTnEgv6FR
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