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Tom Ballard (born 16 October 1988; died 24 February 9 March 2019) was a British rock climber and alpinist, who was the first mountaineer to climb the six major alpine north faces solo in a single winter season.^[1]

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Agassizhorn

The Agassizhorn is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.

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Aiguille du Dru

The Aiguille du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus; French, Les Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.

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Alison Hargreaves

Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountaineer. Tom Ballard (climber) and Alison Hargreaves are mountaineering deaths.

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Alpine climbing

Alpine climbing (Alpinklettern) is a type of mountaineering that involves using any of a broad range of advanced climbing skills, including rock climbing, ice climbing, and/or mixed climbing, to summit typically large routes (e.g. multi-pitch or big wall) in an alpine environment.

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Alps

The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Autrans

Autrans is a former commune in the Isère department in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France.

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Bansko

Bansko (Банско) is a town in southwestern Bulgaria, located in Blagoevgrad Oblast near the city of Razlog.

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Basques

The Basques (or; euskaldunak; vascos; basques) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.

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Belper

Belper is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent.

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Bernese Oberland

The Bernese Oberland (Berner Oberland; Bärner Oberland; Oberland bernois), sometimes also known as the Bernese Highlands, is the highest and southernmost part of the canton of Bern.

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Chris Terrill

Chris Terrill (born 1952) is a British anthropologist, adventurer, broadcaster, author and film-maker.

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Dolomites

The Dolomites (Dolomiti), also known as the Dolomite Mountains, Dolomite Alps or Dolomitic Alps, are a mountain range in northeastern Italy.

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Dry-tooling (or drytooling) is a form of mixed climbing that is performed on bare, ice-free, and snow-free, routes.

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Eiger

The Eiger is a mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, just north of the main watershed and border with Valais.

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Fassa Valley

The Fassa Valley (Ladin: Fascia, Val di Fassa, Fassatal) is a valley in the Dolomites in Trentino, northern Italy.

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Fort William, Scotland

Fort William is a town in Lochaber in the Scottish Highlands, located on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe.

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Gilgit-Baltistan

Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and between India and China since 1959.

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Grandes Jorasses

The Grandes Jorasses (4,208 m; 13,806 ft) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, on the boundary between Haute-Savoie in France and Aosta Valley in Italy.

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Great north faces of the Alps

The six great north faces of the Alps are a group of vertical faces in the Swiss, French, and Italian Alps known in mountaineering for their difficulty, danger, and great height.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya.

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Inverness-shire

Inverness-shire (Siorrachd Inbhir Nis) or the County of Inverness is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland (the latter of which though only goes by the name Inverness).

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K2

K2, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at.

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Kendal Mountain Festival

The Kendal Mountain Festival is an annual festival held in November in Kendal, Cumbria on the edge of the English Lake District in the UK and is one of the most diverse festivals of its kind in the world, attracting film premières from around the world.

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Matterhorn

The italics (Cervino; Cervin; Mont(e) Cervin(u))There are several different Romansh dialects, each with its own slight variation on the name for the Matterhorn.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat (نانگا پربت), known locally as Diamer, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth and its summit is at above sea level.

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Netherlands Film Festival

The Netherlands Film Festival (Nederlands Film Festival) is an annual film festival, held in September and October of each year in the city of Utrecht.

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Piz Badile

Piz Badile (3,308 m) is a mountain of the Bregaglia range in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Italian region of Lombardy.

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Rock climbing

Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations or indoor climbing walls.

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Rosengarten group

The Rosengarten group (Catinaccio, Ladin: Ciadenac, Ciadenáze) is a massif in the Dolomites of northern Italy.

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Sheffield DocFest

Sheffield DocFest (formerly styled Sheffield Doc/Fest; abbr.Sheffield International Documentary Festival or SIDF), is an international documentary festival and Industry Marketplace held annually in Sheffield, England.

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The Last Mountain (2021 film)

The Last Mountain is a 2021 mountain film co-produced by the BBC about the death of Tom Ballard on Nanga Parbat.

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Tre Cime di Lavaredo

The paren), also called the Three Merlons), are three distinctive battlement-like peaks, in the Sexten Dolomites of northeastern Italy. They are one of the best-known mountain groups in the Alps. The three peaks, from east to west, are.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.

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2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes

The 2019 India–Pakistan border skirmishes were a series of armed clashes consisting of cross-border airstrikes and exchanges of gunfire between India and Pakistan across the ''de facto'' border in the disputed Kashmir region, which is subject to extensive territorial claims by both countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Ballard_(climber)