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Spanish record climber tops Everest twice in a week

Spanish mountaineer Kilian Jornet has reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time in a week, his team said Sunday.

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Spanish climber sets new record for Everest climb

Spanish mountaineer Kilian Jornet has set a record for the fastest ascent of Mount Everest without fixed ropes or supplementary oxygen, climbing the world's highest peak in just 26 hours, his team said Tuesday.

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Spanish caver trapped underground for 11 days

A Spanish speleologist is still waiting to be rescued from a two-kilometre (1.2 miles) deep cave in Peru after he fell and badly injured his back and legs 11 days ago.

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Catalan climber named world's top adventurer

Twenty-six-year-old Kilian Jornet from Cap de Rec in the Catalan Pyrenees has lifted National Geographic magazine's 2014 People's Choice Adventurer of the Year award after smashing records in ski mountaineering, trail running, ultra running and skyrunning.

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UK climber found dead in northern Spain

The body of a British mountaineer who went missing a week ago in the Picos de Europa national park in northern Spain has been found trapped inside a nine-metre gorge.