How Adrian Ballinger Summited Everest Without Bottled Oxygen One of the numerous interesting stories to come out of this year&...
Video: Shishapangma South Face Expedition in the Khumbu
This past spring climbing season, alpinists Hervé Barmasse and David Göttler traveled to Shishapangma to attempt a new route along its ...
Video: Suunto Celebrates Kilian's Double-Summit on Everest
By now, we're all well aware of Kilian Jornet's exploits in the Himalaya this spring. This video was put out by Suunto – one of...
Himalaya Spring 2017: Moro and Lunger End Kangchenjunga Skyline Expedition
One of the expeditions that I was most interested in following this season was Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger's attempt to traverse the...
The New York Times Uses Virtual Reality to Take Us to Antarctica
Most of us will probably never get the chance to travel to Antarctica ourselves. But, thanks to modern technology and a little help from The...
Himalaya Spring 2017: More Summits But End of Season in Sight
It has been a long and very eventful spring season in the Himalaya, that much is certain. Over the past few month we've seen drama, in...
Ofir Barak | Mea Sharim
Photo © Ofir Barak - All Rights Reserved You'd be forgiven if you thought that the above photograph was taken in Saudi Arabia or Iran, b...
Himalaya Spring 2017: Kilian Jornet Summits Everest for Second Time in a Week
It is a long holiday weekend here in the States at the moment, so as a result I won't be posting a full round-up of stories today. That ...
Sam Sanzetti | Old Shanghai
Photo © Sam Sanzetti - All Rights Reserved Working on my forthcoming multimedia project "The Red Qi Pao" has whetted my interest i...
Video: Up Denali's West Buttress Route
As climbing operations begin to wind down in the Himalaya, things are starting to heat up on Denali, where teams of other climbers are now s...
Forbes Gives Us the 30 Cheapest Places to Travel in 2017
If you're still making travel plans for 2017, we may have an article that can help you out with your decision making process. Forbes ha...
Himalaya Spring 2017: Reports of Dead Climbers at Camp 4 Untrue
We have another story from Everest today that I felt was once again worth giving its own post to just to make sure that it wasn't buried...
Himalaya Spring 2017: Summit Pushes Continue with End of Season in Sight
The current – and probably final – weather window on Everest continues today with more teams heading to the summit. At this point, the numbe...
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