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Utah climber Shelley Johannesen reached the 8,485-metre summit of Makalu on 9 May 2026. Hours later, a wet-slab avalanche swept her rope team off the…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 19, 2026
Getting to the top of an 8,000-metre mountain is only half the climb. Statistically, it's the descent that kills — and nowhere was that clearer this spring than on Mount Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain on Earth. Key facts Shelley Johannesen, 53, of…
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What this means for you Makalu's summit ridge is technical, remote mountaineering terrain — a different world from the Makalu Base Camp trek, which stops well short of any avalanche-exposed climbing route and is walked by hundreds of trekkers a year with no…
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