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    Makalu (Nepali: मकालु हिमाल, romanized: Makālu himāl; Chinese: 马卡鲁峰; pinyin: Mǎkǎlǔ Fēng) is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an...
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    Retrieved 27 May 2011. "Makalu 2010: Zaharias Kiriakakis is lost on Makalu". Explorersweb.com. Retrieved 28 August 2012. "Fatalities Makalu". 8000ers.com. Retrieved...
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  • Look up Makalu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Makalu may refer to: Makalu, Himalayan mountain on the China–Nepal border, fifth-highest in the world...
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    children, and Jeannie Price, Fischer's wife, released a cloud of butterflies. "Makalu" Gau Ming-Ho led a five-member team to Everest on 10 May 1996. The previous...
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    was the first person to reach the summits of Mount Everest, Lhotse and Makalu within 48 hours. In 2021, Purja, along with a team of nine other Nepalese...
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  • Makalu is a village development committee near the mountain of the same name, located in Sankhuwasabha District in the Koshi Zone of north-eastern Nepal...
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  • Makalu Air Pvt. Ltd is an airline based in Nepalgunj, Nepal. The company was established in 2009 and was issued an air operator's certificate by the Civil...
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    Makalu Barun National Park is a national park in the Himalayas of Nepal that was established in 1992 as the eastern extension of Sagarmatha National Park...
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  • Gau Ming-ho (redirect from Makalu Gau)
    Gau Ming-Ho (Chinese: 高銘和; pinyin: Gāo Mínghé; born 1949), also known as Makalu Gau after the 5th highest peak in the world, is a Taiwanese mountaineer...
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    Everest Lhotse Makalu (2 times) Nanga Parbat Manaslu – 6 January 2023 – Winter summit. Shishapangma – 26 April 2023. Cho Oyu – 3 May 2023 Makalu – 13 May 2023...
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  • Makalu Xowi (born 20 April 1999) is a New Caledonian footballer currently playing for Central Sport and the New Caledonia national team. From a young age...
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  • Makalu (Nepali: मकालु गाउँपालिका) is a rural municipality (gaunpalika) out of five rural municipality located in Sankhuwasabha District of Koshi Province...
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    situated at the base of Mt. Makalu in the Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal. This valley rests entirely inside the Makalu Barun National Park. The valley...
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    The 1955 French Makalu expedition was the first to successfully climb Makalu, the Himalayan mountain 12 miles (19 km) to the southeast of Mount Everest...
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  • the first time at (20,000 feet (6,100 m)) and then attempt the summit of Makalu (27,790 feet (8,470 m)) without oxygen. Hillary estimated the expedition...
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  • Himal and Cho Oyu, to the Arun River. It includes Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and Cho Oyu — four of Earth's six highest peaks. On the Tibetan side it...
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    Just Completed the First Ski Descent of Makalu". Outside Online. Retrieved 2022-09-16. "Adrian Ballinger Skis Makalu » Explorersweb". Explorersweb. 2022-05-09...
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  • person ever to reach the summits of the five highest peaks in the world (Makalu, Lhotse, Kangchenjunga, K2 and Everest) without using bottled oxygen. In...
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    ascents of four of the fourteen eight-thousanders: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011, and Nanga Parbat in 2016. No other climber...
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    the first winter ascent of Makalu via the normal route. Even this venture did not succeed. Not until February 2009 was Makalu successfully climbed in winter...
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  • Rabindra Man; Sangam, Khagendra (2009). The Makalu-Barun National Park & Buffer Zone Brochure. Makalu-Barun National Park. Reinhard, 1978. Michael McRae...
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  • along with Renan Öztürk. In 2009 Richards made an unsuccessful attempt on Makalu with Steve House but it wasn't until spring of 2010 that Richards summitted...
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    Sanu Sherpa (born 1975) is a Nepalese mountaineer from Makalu, Sankhuwasabha. On 21 July 2022, he became the first person to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders...
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    record for the fastest woman to summit Everest and Lhotse, 9 hours and 5min. Makalu 8,481m – 27 May 2022. Nanga Parbat 8,126m – 1 July 2022. K2 8,611m – 22...
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    Jean-Christophe Lafaille (category Deaths on Makalu)
    but disappeared during a solo attempt to make the first winter ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain. Born in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Lafaille's...
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    珠穆隆索峰; pinyin: Zhūmùlóngsuǒ Fēng) is a mountain in Tibet, 5 km northeast of Makalu in the Mahalungur (Mohalingor) or Khumbu Himalayas. Alternate spellings...
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  • He would then go on to be the first Dane to summit Lhotse (8501 m) and Makalu (8,462 m). From 1990 to 1996, Jørgensen was in the military and deployed...
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    five Himalayan 8,000 m peaks: Dhaulagiri (in 1995), Mount Everest (1997), Makalu (1998), and Shishapangma and Cho Oyu (1999). President of Alpine Club Vihren...
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    Marcel Rüedi (1 November 1938 in Winterthur – 25 September 1986 in Makalu) was a Swiss climber who reached the summit of ten of the eight-thousanders....
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    West and West. Other prominent mountains visible from the summit include Makalu, Ama Dablam and Pumori. Because of its relatively low difficulty and impressive...
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