Well, after a prolonged period of teasing, Peak developers Aggro Crab and Landfall Games look to have bitten the human bullet. Nestled among the notes for the climbing game’s latest patch are the words “added cannibalism”. It’s not enough that you can mod Peak so that you and your buddies will be surrounded by the corpses of fallen climbers as …
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Laura Dahlmeier: Climbers attempt rescue of injured Olympian in Pakistan | Olympics News
Rescuers are hoping to locate the double Olympic gold medallist on the 6,096-metre Laila Peak in the Karakoram Mountains. A team of foreign climbers were on Wednesday due to launch a rescue mission for the two-time Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier, days after the German athlete was seriously injured by a rockfall on a Pakistani mountain. The accident happened about …
Read More »Power versus weight: Are the Tour de France’s top climbers getting heavier?
Jonas Vingegaard and Matteo Jorgenson are perhaps both expected to finish in the top five of this year’s Tour de France, lofty heights reserved for the sport’s climbers, but after stage two of the event last weekend, the pair joked about adopting a very different discipline. “You’re a sprinter now,” laughed Jorgenson, after Vingegaard had almost outsprinted Tadej Pogacar and …
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