The Teylers Museum in Haarlem is the oldest museum in the Netherlands, founded in 1778. Its collection includes fossils, coins, minerals, scientific instruments, and a selection of paintings by famous artists such as Michelangelo, Ribera, Claude Lorrain, and Guercino, among others. However, the most curious piece on display at the Teylers Museum is the one […]
Mountaineering
Posted inModern Era, Science
How the movie ‘Frozen’ helped solve the Dyatlov Pass incident, the mysterious deaths of nine hikers in 1959
If we combined the premise of the movies Match Point and Final Destination, the result could very well be called Yuri Yudin. This was the name of a young Soviet man who, paradoxically, was saved by a series of health issues in 1959, forcing him to abandon an expedition that would cost the lives of […]
Posted inGeography
The highest mountain on Earth that no one has ever climbed
Everest and K2 see how every year many expeditions reach their summit. In fact the agglomeration of climbers in the Everest base camp is starting to be a major problem, just remember the catastrophe of the last Nepalese earthquake. Of the 40 highest mountains in the world, only two remained unreached in 1985. Since 1992 […]
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How three men ascended Olympus for the first time
More than 100 years ago, on August 2, 1913, three men reached the summit of Mount Olympus in Greece. Perhaps others had tried it before, who would dare to prove by himself whether the gods really lived there? But the fact is that nothing in the classical sources makes us suspect of such a boldness. […]
