Expeditions

UPDATED Himalaya heads-up: Kuriki coming down, Manaslu and Makalu pushing, Himex and (some) Junkies leaving

Mixed news - UPDATE (Newsdesk/Story updated Sep 28, 10am)...

Remains on K2 not Marty or Denali Schmidt

Marty and Denali Schmidt were killed in 2013 when...

Makalu Current: Interview with Adrian Ballinger

We caught up with Adrian and his skiing team....

Shackleton September 1915: Silent Bergs and Grinding Floes

The vital question for us was whether or not...

Beyond Selfies: The Next GoPro

The winning concept from Intel (Tina Sjogren) Winner of...

Lhotse South Wall: Pythom Interview with Korean Sung Taek Hong

It's been a tough year, Sung told us (Tina...

Mountain Guides of the Future: Meet your Digital Ski Instructor

AI goes altitude (Tina Sjogren) Some weeks ago we...

Seven climbers dead in French Alps avalanche

The avalanche happened at around midday local time (BBC)...

Unknown Himalaya: Pythom interview with Luke Smithwick

Himalaya current Just done with the highest peak on...

Fall 2015: Slow Start to the Season; Teams on Lhotse South Face, Dhaulagiri SW Pillar

Despite closure of Tibetan mountains, number of post monsoon...

Mountaineers Missing in Kashmir

3 climbers out of contact since August 31 (Press...

Himalaya Heads-Up: The Long Approach

Polar skiers moving independently (Newsdesk) This is the latest...

Endurance 100 years ago: anxious days

The pressure of millions of tons of moving ice...

Andrew Lock wins bravery award for Everest rescue mission

Canberra mountaineer Andrew Lock felt no fear when...

Greenland Fall 2015 ski season opens

Norwegian guide, Bengt Rotmo sent over news (Correne Coetzer)...

Behind the scenes of the expedition that found Franklin’s HMS Erebus

The Northwest Passage search In 1845, Captain Sir John...

Leo Holding and team completes first accent

Mirror Wall route in remote Greenland Leo Houlding has...

Polish photographer takes a drone to K2

returns with breathtaking pictures The icy tundra of Baltoro...

New Space: The Story of the First Manned Rocket

Hail all the Pioneers (3 pictures) According to Chinaculture.org,...

Nepal: 362 strong aftershocks in three months

An aftershock measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck...

Entrepreneurs vs. World Explorers

What do entrepreneurs and world explorers have in common?...

Mount Kinabalu is ‘our temple and purgatory’

Controversy erupted this month when a group of backpackers...

Ryan Waters – Everest Interview by Eric Larsen

The first person I helped, was an older Sherpa,...

Detailed Ocean currents around Antarctica

Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have created...

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