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Gift Guide for Polar Explorers

Jerry Kobalenko

26/11/2020

Gear

Over my polar travels, I've spent about six months camping below minus 40°, and another year and a half at temperatures below -20°C. I've le...

Breaking: Nirmal Purja to Attempt Winter K2

Angela Benavides

26/11/2020

Winter 8000ers

Nirmal Purja is heading shortly for winter K2. In his usual grand style, he describes the climb as "one of the last remaining grand prizes i...

Ama Dablam 2020: Climbing in an Empty Khumbu

Angela Benavides

25/11/2020

Himalaya

Surreal. Wonderful. Those are the words chosen by Garrett Madison to describe the peaceful Khumbu Valley, bereft of the usual crowds. "We di...

Neal Moore Interview: 12,000km by Canoe Across The U.S.

Martin Walsh

25/11/2020

Canoeing & Kayaking Rivers

As we reported last week, Neal Moore is now over halfway through his 12,000km odyssey across the United States. He plans to paddle 22 rivers...

Infamous Everest Serac is Gone

Angela Benavides

24/11/2020

Everest

Garrett Madison canceled his Everest expedition in autumn 2019 because a gigantic serac loomed over the Khumbu Icefall, and one of his clien...

Winter K2 Underway: John Snorri in Pakistan

Angela Benavides

24/11/2020

K2 Winter 8000ers

On Sunday, John Snorri flew to Islamabad to begin his winter K2 expedition. The Icelander obtained his climbing permit in August, and porter...

Legendary Scottish Climber Hamish MacInnes Dies

Martin Walsh

24/11/2020

8000ers Everest Himalaya

Scotland’s greatest climber, Hamish MacInnes, has died at the age of 90. Born in Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, MacInnes demonst...

Microplastics Found on Everest

Alex Myall

23/11/2020

Everest

Few items can claim to have reached both the bottom of the deepest ocean and the upper reaches of the highest mountain. But in a sad sign of...

ExWeb’s Links of The Week

Ash Routen

22/11/2020

Adventure Travel

Here at ExWeb, when we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the wider interweb. Sometimes we’re a little ...

Weekend Warm-Up: 40 Years Later

Alex Myall

21/11/2020

Oceans Reviews

Back in 1974, Alan and Andy Dappen became two of the first modern canoeists to paddle the full length of the Inside Passage between Canada ...

Jan Morris, Last Non-Sherpa Member of 1953 Everest Expedition, Passes

Alex Myall

21/11/2020

Everest

When Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to summit Mount Everest in 1953, a man then known as James Morris was awarded...

Updates: K2, Ama Dablam, Patagonia

Angela Benavides

20/11/2020

COVID-19 K2 Patagonia Winter 8000ers

Following Garrett Madison's success, another foreign team is heading to Ama Dablam. Lukas Furtenbach's group is currently quarantining in Ka...

Canoeist Passes Halfway on 12,000km Odyssey

Rebecca McPhee

20/11/2020

Canoeing & Kayaking Rivers

On February 9, Neal Moore, 49, began his second attempt to canoe across America from west to east. To “rediscover the threads that bind Amer...

Jost Kobusch: Still Focused on Winter Everest

Angela Benavides

19/11/2020

Everest Winter 8000ers Winter Himalaya

With all eyes fixated on winter K2, a young climber is methodically preparing to return to Everest next December for a no-O2, solo attempt v...

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A Brief Climbing History of Nepal’s Highest Peaks

Apar Datta

09/06/2020

8000ers Everest Himalaya

Nepal is home to one of the world's dangerous mountain systems known as the famous Himalayas. Ranging from 2,000 meters to the top of the wo...

Lake Baikal 2020 Crossing: Short Talk with Adventurers

Roland

31/03/2020

Adventure Travel Arctic

Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia) is the world’s largest lake by volume and every winter, it freezes over. Its sheer size (636km long) offers an...

Return of the Freeride. Freeride World Qualifier in Russia

Mountain Planet

23/02/2020

Reviews Skiing

Do or do not. There is no try. Master Yoda Now freeride Jedi get together in Russia, to take part in Freeride World Qualifier 2*...

Marcel Korkuś sets New World Record in Altitude Diving

eversub

26/01/2020

Mountain

On December 13, 2019, the Polish diver Marcel Korkuś dived at an altitude of 6,395 m above sea level, setting an absolute world record in al...

Paragliding from the two summits of ELBRUS – Elbrus East 5621m & Elbrus West 5642m

THOMAS LAEMMLE

08/12/2019

Adventure Films Adventure Travel Alpine style Climbing Mountain

Paragliding from both tops of Mt Elbrus (5621m & 5642m) in summer 2019 In June 2019 I got the chance to visit the remote North ...

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