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Images show the Ramada Hotel in Schiphol, Netherlands where Europe's highest number of people so far with the Omicron strain of Covid-19 are being kept in isolation. IMAGES
Kathmandu, Dec 18 (EFE/EPA).- Members of the K2 winter expedition team left Nepal for Pakistan Friday to attempt climbing Mount K2, the world's second-highest mountain, which has never been climbed before in winter season.Mt. K2 has a hight of 8,611 meters (28,251 ft.) above sea level and is located in northern Pakistan. (Camera: NARENDRA SHRESTHA).SHOT LIST: MEMBERS OF THE K2 WINTER EXPEDITION PREPARES TO LEAVE NEPAL FOR PAKISTAN IN KATHMANDU, NEPAL.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany), 28 Aug (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Philipp Guelland).- Inspired by the bicentennial of the first ascent to the Zugspitze in 1820, workers on the Austrian side of Germany's highest mountain sent a team to the summit, consisting of mountain guide Riccardo Mizio and influencer Sarah Wingendorf , equipped with a bench weighing about 11 kilograms, making it the heaviest piece of furniture to be taken to a mountain and assembled there, according to organizers. FOOTAGE OF THE MOUNTAIN ASCENT WITH A WOODEN BENCH.
83-year-old Elisa Forti wants to conquer the treacherous Aconcagua Mountain, the highest mountain in the Americas. Elisa, who has already crossed the Andes twice, was born in Italy but moved with her family to Argentina when she was 14 years old. She has a large family with five children, eleven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Known as the 'mountain of death,' Aconcagua will be far and away her biggest challenge yet.
A new record breaking cable car gondola opened at Valley Station in Bavaria's Grainau on Thursday and started taking take brave visitors to the peak of the Zugspitze - the highest point in Germany. The cable car breaks several world records, including the world's tallest steel support standing at 417 feet, the longest distance from the only support to the mountain station at 10,540 feet, and the largest height difference between the valley station and the mountain station at 6381 feet.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).