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Jost Kobusch in Annapurna Base Camp

Jost Kobusch in Annapurna Base Camp

It sounds like an April fool’s joke with a month’s delay. Before the German Jost Kobuschas reported – reached the 8,091 meter-high summit of Annapurna on 1 May, he, according to his own words, played a game of chess against the Israeli climber Nadav Ben-Yehuda just below the highest point. “We had previously played at least two games every day at Base Camp during the periods of bad weather,” says Jost. So the idea of a chess duel at the top was born. Nadav, who used bottled oxygen, reached the highest point just before Jost, who climbed without breathing mask. “When we met just below the summit, I said to him: Wait! We still have to play a game of chess,” the 23-year-old German tells me. “We played on my smartphone, 20 meters below the summit.”

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13. May 2016 | 19:29

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Video of the avalanche that hit Everest Base Camp

The first video of the fatal avalanche from Pumori, that was triggered by the earthquake and hit the Base Camp at the foot of Mount Everest, goes around the world. Jost Kobusch, a mountaineer from Germany, recorded it. Jost is 22 years old. He was born near the town of Bielefeld. Since the age of eleven he climbs. Last year Kobusch climbed solo the 6,812-meter-high Ama Dablam near Everest. Jost earns his living as a hiking guide in the Arctic. After his military service he came to Spitsbergen. This spring, he planned to climb the 8,516-meter-high Lhotse without bottled oxygen. The fourth highest mountain in the world is the neighbor of Mount Everest. Up to about 7,000 meters climbers use the same route to climb Everest and Lhotse and of course the same Base Camp. Here is Jost’s video that Jost has turned. It literally takes your breath:

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27. April 2015 | 8:50

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