Ciprian Popoviciu
Ciprian Popoviciu was born in Transylvania, an area surrounded my mountains. He started climbing mountains at a young age and spent a lot of time climbing. He never dreamed that he would have the opportunity to attempt Mount Everest in 2008. He started high altitude mountaineering in 2003, and amongst the tallest mountains he has climbed are Aconcagua in South America and Denali in Alaska. In the United States he likes to climb the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades.
Chip is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, with over seven years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting large customer networks. As part of Cisco’s Network Solution Integration Test organization, Ciprian holds a B.S. in Physics from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, and M.S. and Doctorate degrees in Physics from the University of Miami.
Resources created by Ciprian Popoviciu
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- Avalanche near base camp
- Avalanches are frequent near the Everest Base Camp. This photograph shows an avalanche roaring down a mountainside close to the edge of the sprawling camp. Tents are positioned away from the potential path of avalanches, however the larger ones dust some of...
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- Blessing at Tengboche Monastery
- Brightly colored banners hang on a wall behind the Rinpoche Lama in the Tengboche Monastery in Nepal. The Lama is seated with his legs crossed on a platform covered with a colorful cloth decorated with red and blue flowers. He is wearing the traditional dress...
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- Children in Lukla, Nepal
- Two children are seen sitting in front of a log building in Lukla, Nepal. The older child is wearing an orange and gray hooded sweatshirt and his arm is draped over the shoulder of the younger child. The younger child is wearing a bright teal blue sweatshirt...
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- Climbing Lhotse Face
- A group of mountain climbers scale an ice wall of Lhotse Face on Mount Everest. Leading the group is a bearded Ciprian “Chip” Popoviciu. He is wearing a red helmet, and sunglasses. With the help of a climbing device called “ascender” and taking advantage...
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- Climbing from Camp One
- A surreal world of ice dwarfs mountain climbers as they make their way toward the steep, gray mountains in the background of this photograph. One climber is working his way up a sheer cliff of ice. The striations of layer upon layer of ice can be seen within...
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- Climbing the Icefalls
- Mountain climber, Ciprian “Chip” Popoviciu, looks up at the photographer as he climbs a long ladder up a sheer and treacherous serac in the Khumbu icefalls. He is wearing a red helmet and sunglasses. His backpack is orange. Below, at the base of the ladder,...
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- Difficult conditions on the Lhotse Face of Mount Everest
- Five mountain climbers rappel down Lhotse Face as they leave Camp 3 in a storm. They hang on to the guide rope as high winds and blowing ice crystals swirl around them. Only the lead climber can be seen fully, his head down as he clings to the rope.
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- Going to the Namche market
- Porters, women, and children carry heavy loads of goods on their backs to the market in Namche, Nepal. Yaks can also be seen transporting goods. Their path is steep and rocky and can only be traveled on foot.
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- The Icefalls of Mount Everest
- Carefully holding with both hands on to two parallel guide-lines, Ciprian "Chip" Popoviciu, wearing a red helmet and yellow-topped boots, uses a ladder to cross a deep crevasse in the notorious Icefalls of Mount Everest. His ladder is lying horizontally between...
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- Khumbu glacier
- The Khumbu glacier is situated between Mount Everest and the Lhotse-Nuptse Ridge. It is seen flowing down between the two mountains and swerving right through the Khumbu valley. The terrain is gray and rocky. Yellow tents of mountain climbers in the Everest...
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- Memorials to climbers who perished on Mount Everest
- Many people have died attempting to climb Mount Everest and these rock piles are memorials to the Sherpas and climbers who have made Mount Everest their eternal home. The largest of the three memorials in this photograph has brightly colored Buddhist prayer...
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- Monkey Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal
- The stupa at Swayanabath located on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal is also known as the Monkey Temple. Brightly colored flags are suspended from the golden top of the stupa to the ground. Here Buddhists and Hindus worship side-by-side in harmony. Mount...
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- Mount Everest
- In this photograph, Mount Everest can be seen in the background of a group of mountains in the Himalaya mountain range. It is mountain at the far left in the picture. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at 29,029 feet above sea level. Lotse...
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- On the Lhotse Face
- Mountain climber Ciprian Popoviciu pauses for a photograph as he and other climbers work their way up Mount Everest. “Chip” is wearing a bright blue and black jacket and a bright red helmet and sunglasses. Below him are other climbers attached to guide...
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- Puja
- Three men stand near an altar created for a Puja ceremony in the Mount Everest Base Camp. A sherpa, obscured by the Lama behind him is bending over a fire of juniper branches on the altar. Another sherpa in a red jacket stands behind a table of offerings at...
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- A rainbow bridges Mount Everest and Mount Nuptse
- This photograph shows the bottom of a rainbow linking the snow-covered foot of Mount Everest and Mount Nuptse in the Himalaya mountain range. Mount Everest can be seen on the left side of the picture. The bright blue sky is clear with a small cloud above the...
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