Source: Alex Soloducha, CBC News, November 29, 2019 Regina’s Sabrina Heywood was told she is the 1st Canadian woman to climb Nirekha Peak in Nepal A Saskatchewan climbing team is home after a month-long expedition which made them the first all-Canadian group to reach the summit of a 6,000-metre peak in Nepal. Sabrina Heywood, who grew up… Continue reading Sask. climbing group 1st Canadian team to summit 6,000-metre Himalayan peak
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Wounded veteran becomes first combat amputee to summit Mount Everest
By Andrew Russell, Global News, May 20, 2016 Man becomes first veteran amputee to scale Mount Everest When 30-year-old U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Charlie Linville reached the 8,848-metre summit of Mount Everest he did so without his right foot. The Afghanistan veteran lost a significant portion of his right leg after stepping on an… Continue reading Wounded veteran becomes first combat amputee to summit Mount Everest
Climber scales Brantford building, enters stranger's apartment
A young man who scaled the wall of a Brantford, Ont. building and entered a stranger’s apartment was “very polite,” residents say. The strange incident was reported at approximately 6 p.m. on Tuesday in Brantford, Ont., a city approximately 100 kilometres southwest of Toronto. A caller told police that a man was seen climbing outside… Continue reading Climber scales Brantford building, enters stranger's apartment