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The 2019 Appalachian State Mountaineers football team represented Appalachian State University during the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Mountaineers were led by first-year head coach Eliah Drinkwitz through the team's win in the Sun Belt Conference Championship Game, after which he left to fill the head coaching vacancy at ...
Malavath Poorna[a] (born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer. On 25 May 2014, Poorna climbed Mount Everest, aged 13 years and 11 months, the youngest female to have reached the summit. [1] Purna climbed Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe on 27 July 2017. After reaching the summit of Elbrus, Poorna unfurled a 50 ft long Indian Tricolor and sang the Indian National Anthem. [2] She ...
Trump presided over a parade celebrating the nation’s military, though the event was shadowed by political violence at home and escalating tensions abroad.
Lou Whittaker was born in Seattle, Washington, on February 10, 1929. [3] He and his twin brother Jim began climbing mountains at age 12. The Whittakers completed their first summit of Mount Rainier at age 16 and had climbed all of the major peaks in Washington by age 18. [4] Besides his worldwide mountain climbing experience, Whittaker became the most experienced glacier -travel guide by ...
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of West Virginia, sorted by type and name. In 2023, West Virginia had a total summer capacity of 15,005 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 52,286 GWh. [2] In 2024, the electrical energy generation mix was 84.7% coal, 7.6% natural gas, 3.9% wind, 3% hydroelectric, 0.4% solar, 0.3% petroleum, and ...
Backbone Mountain is a ridge of the Allegheny Mountains of the central Appalachian Mountain Range. It is situated in the U.S. states of West Virginia and Maryland and forms a portion of the Eastern Continental Divide. Within the state of Maryland, Backbone Mountain reaches an elevation of 3,360 feet or 1,024 metres, making it Maryland's highest point.
James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American climber and mountain guide. [1][2] Born and raised in Seattle, Washington. On May 1, 1963, he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, alongside the Sherpa Nawang Gombu, a nephew of Tenzing Norgay. They ...
Ten men arrested at a farm linked to a drug cartel in the Mexican state of Jalisco were found guilty of murder and kidnapping in a high-profile trial that concluded Monday, the prosecutor's office ...