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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.