Mountaineering

Winter K2 Underway: John Snorri in Pakistan

On Sunday, John Snorri flew to Islamabad to begin...
November 24, 2020

Legendary Scottish Climber Hamish MacInnes Dies

Scotland’s greatest climber, Hamish MacInnes, has died at the...
November 24, 2020

Microplastics Found on Everest

Few items can claim to have reached both the...
November 23, 2020

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

When Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay became the...
November 21, 2020

Updates: K2, Ama Dablam, Patagonia

Following Garrett Madison's success, another foreign team is heading...
November 20, 2020

Jost Kobusch: Still Focused on Winter Everest

With all eyes fixated on winter K2, a young...
November 19, 2020

Winter K2: From Savage to Crowded?

While the prospect of a winter K2 expedition was...
November 17, 2020

Back From the Dead on Mount Rainier

After 45 minutes of CPR, and being placed on...
November 17, 2020

Interview with Reinhold Messner

As I dial the number, I draw a sharp...
November 16, 2020

Training for Winter K2 at 25ºC

How can you possibly prepare for high winds, deep...
November 16, 2020

New Routes in Patagonia

Two new routes recently opened by local climbers on...
November 13, 2020

More Ama Dablam Summits

Again, summits are piling up, as climbers head up...
November 13, 2020

Skiing Nepal and Pakistan: A New Winter Trend?

At least two expeditions are preparing to carve new...
November 12, 2020

Summit Day on Ama Dablam

For the few who have been lucky enough to...
November 11, 2020

The Quest to Measure Everest’s New Altitude

This year, an unusually lonely Everest has been climbed...
November 10, 2020

Pandemic Helps Ladakh’s Snow Leopards

  In the last few years, Ladakh has been in...
November 9, 2020

Winter K2 News, Ama Dablam Summit Push

It's another 40 days before the ever-growing Winter K2...
November 9, 2020

Jelle Veyt: Belgium to Denali

Jelle Veyt will shortly continue his mega-project to climb...
November 6, 2020

Nepal’s Highway to Everest: Good or Bad?

"Nepal Building a Highway to Everest". The headline that...
November 6, 2020

Teams Progress on Ama Dablam

Lakpa Dendi Sherpa and Gesman Tamang from Seven Summit...
November 5, 2020

How Rugged is Your Country?

In 2018, an oddly named publication called The Visual...
November 4, 2020

Ama Dablam, Winter K2 Preparations

More climbers are signing on to winter K2, beyond...
November 3, 2020

Explorers’ Diseases

This year, we learned just how quickly a disease...
November 2, 2020

Weekend Warm-Up: Moose’s Tooth

Twenty-four kilometres south of Denali, Moose’s Tooth stands a...
October 31, 2020

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