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  • Brazilian tourist who fell off Indonesian volcano found dead

    06/24/2025 10:58:19 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    BBC ^ | 06/24/2025 | Flora Drury & Rachel Hagan
    A Brazilian tourist who fell while hiking near the crater of an active volcano in Indonesia has been found dead, her family and rescuers said. Juliana Marins survived the initial fall from a cliff during an early morning group hike along a steep trail on Mount Rinjani, with rescuers reporting hearing her screams for help on Saturday. ... She was hiking up Indonesia's second-tallest volcano with five friends and a guide on Saturday at about 06:30 local time (23:30 GMT Friday), when authorities said she fell from "a cliff that surrounds the trail next to the volcano's crater". One group...
  • Family tells of 'relief' after 1924 climber’s foot found on Everest

    10/19/2024 6:13:18 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 52 replies
    BBC News ^ | October 11, 2024 | Tessa Wong and Flora Drury
    It was the call the family of a young British climber who went missing on Everest 100 years ago had given up hope of ever getting.Last month, a team of climbers filming a National Geographic documentary stumbled on a preserved boot, revealed by melting ice on a glacier.This boot was believed to belong to Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared while attempting to climb Everest in June 1924 with his partner George Mallory.What's more, it could potentially help solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries: whether or not the pair succeeded in becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years...