So, this is CLIMBeR.

They tried to radio a message to Rob Hall, who was a superb climber stuck, sort of, with a weak climber up near the summit.

The Alpine Convention is a coalition of eight Alpine Countries united by a shared commitment to sustainable development in the European Alps.

In 2006 he became the youngest British climber to summit Everest.

This robot is called CLIMBeR Cable suspended Limbed Intelligent Matching Behavior Robot.

Narrator Lynn Verinsky, a professional climber, who appeared to be brimming with confidence.

Edible alpine plants and mushrooms are harvested in these forests.

Later it was called the Alpine dollar due to its stability.

In 1945 (at the age of 49), Germer launched a side career as a rock climber.

The Alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is a species of mammal in the Soricidae family.

They felt that enlargement even to the Scandinavian and Alpine countries was going too far.

The closest alpine peak, the 1,972 metre high Untersberg, is less than from the city centre.

The western regions located in the alpine like country that is dominated by the Carpathian Mountains.

You can see on this climber, we have two oxygen tanks in the backpack little titanium tanks, very lightweight and we're not carrying much else.

Common warriors were, explicitly and famously, the decision makers among Norsemen and in Swiss Alpine cantons in the early Middle Ages.

Forests cover around 40 of Georgia's territory while the alpine subalpine zone accounts for roughly around 10 percent of the land.

This red dot marks the Great Basin of North America, and I'm involved with an alpine biodiversity project there with some collaborators.

Practiced only among the alpine population since prehistoric times, it is recorded to have taken place in Basel in the 13th century.

Members of the Public Schools Alpine Sports Club were required to have attended an English public school or one of the older universities .

All of that, strip it away. In the world of the arctic and alpine environments, where the ice is, it's real and it's present.

The park has four basic regions the Pacific coastline, alpine areas, the west side temperate rainforest and the forests of the drier east side.

This urban sprawl does not only affect the plateau but also the Jura and the Alpine foothills and there are growing concerns about land use.

And a professor in the University of Massachusetts, in the zoology department, bought this climber because she wanted to study the insect diversity of the top of the tree canopy.

In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too.

On November 2, 1940, a Breguet 19 intercepted the 3 Alpine Division Julia while it was penetrating Pindos mountain range and moving on to occupy Metsovo.

Uplift has been fastest during the last 5 million years, and the mountains continue to be raised today by tectonic pressure, causing earthquakes on the Alpine Fault.

Europeans are buying gemütliche Alpine ski chalets, glamorous condominiums with Mediterranean views in the South of Spain, and, increasingly, villas in picturesque sites in Turkey, Hungary, and Croatia.

And images of junkies and Muslim women in headscarves are contrasted in a promotional movie with idyllic pictures of Alpine scenery and efficient banks the People s Party s Switzerland.

In Olten's railway station restaurant, the Gruppe Olten (Olten Group), a group of writers that included Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, was founded, as was the Swiss Alpine Club in 1863.

The northern region of the country consists of an arc of Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows reaching up to glaciated mountain peaks with an extremely cold climate at the highest elevations.

After training in Scotland, the French Alps, on Spantik in Pakistan and Ama Dablam in Nepal, on 17 May 2006 they reached the summit of Everest, Gauntlett becoming the youngest British climber to do so, a week after his 19th birthday.

There are four types of biogeographical regions in Croatia Mediterranean along the coast and in its immediate hinterland Alpine in the elevated Lika and Gorski Kotar Pannonian along the Drava and Danube and Continental in the remaining areas.

Following his first exhibition, at the Alpine Club Gallery, in February 1911, he became one of the founding members of the Camden Town Group, and with other members later joined with the Vorticists to form The London Group.

In 1943, when the Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies, the region was occupied by Germany, which reorganised it as the Operation Zone of the Alpine Foothills and put it under the administration of Gauleiter Franz Hofer.

At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award winnning, all terrain robots like the humanoid, soccer playing DARwIn and the cliff gripping CLIMBeR all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab's incredible technical success.

In addition to the maritime and continental climates that predominate over most of the country, the Alpine regions in the extreme south and, to a lesser degree, some areas of the Central German Uplands have a mountain climate, with lower temperatures and greater precipitation.