Andreas Kubin News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Ueli Steck ascending Annapurna in the Himalayan mountains.
In 1990, Slovenian mountaineer Tomo Česen claimed to have scaled the south face of Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world. It was declared the greatest feat ever seen in Himalayan mountaineering, but he warned that he had no photos to prove it. Soon afterward, however, he provided some snapshots – stolen from fellow climbers who had tried to conquer this slope years earlier.
In 2015, French researcher Rodolphe Popier managed to reveal a second lie by the Slovenian: photos taken with a telephoto lens by a friend of Česen’s were not shot at base camp on the south face of Lhotse but elsewhere. ....

Nepal General , United States , Lindsay Griffin , A Lindsay Griffin , Yalung Kang , Pierre Chapoutot , Elizabeth Hawley , Yannick Graziani , Christian Trommsdorff , Ueli Steck , Eberhard Jurgalski , Georges Lowe , Dani Arnold , Xavier Eguskitza , Leslie Fuczko , Ken Wilson , Catherine Destivelle , Rolo Garibott , Andreas Kubin , Ivano Ghirardini , French Alpine Club , Rodolphe Popier , South Face , Annapurna South , Himalayan Database , American Alpine ,