Mountaineering

South Pole guide, Einar Torfi Finnsson, top gear: a skirt, a mask and boot liners

Co-founder of Icelandic Mountain Guides, led Adventure Consultants team...
March 9, 2015

Study: Introverts prefer mountains

Bye, take care and thanks for following. (Newsdesk) "Moving...
March 9, 2015

Cerro Torre: New York Times Plucking Legs of Dolomite Spider

Climbing just got highbrow coverage (Newsdesk) Last month the...
March 9, 2015

10 things to do before going off to climb Everest

Checklist (Tina Sjogren) Following our own 4 expeditions to...
February 27, 2015

Ali Sadpara’s Must-read Interview, Nanga Parbat High Altitude Police and Bad Weather Reaches Manaslu

Ali Sadpara shares his raw and candid views about...
February 25, 2015

Winter climb 2015: Peak Pobeda, Kazakhstan

7439m: Not many climbers would try Pobeda in summer,...
February 25, 2015

Nanga Parbat Summit-bid Strategy

...and ‘Bad Omens’ on Manaslu. (By Raheel Adnan) The waiting...
February 23, 2015

Moto Cross Himalaya

A story of a motocross racer who takes his...
February 23, 2015

Everest Route Changes

The route used by mountaineers to scale Mount Everest...
February 18, 2015

Everest Permits Update

Everest climbers caught between a rock and a hard...
February 17, 2015

Snowstorm hits Nanga, Simone towards Manaslu

Winter Himalaya is a lonely place. (By Raheel Adnan) Strong...
February 17, 2015

Progress on Nanga Parbat, Simone Moro’s New Project

Game still on at Nanga, Moro for winter Manaslu...
February 13, 2015

Everest Tech Week 2015: HET Recommend

BC hotspots, social updates, automated tracking and Skype from...
February 10, 2015

Everest Tech Week 2015: Review iSavi

A new satellite service from Inmarsat (HumanEdgeTech/Tom Sjogren) For...
February 10, 2015

Everest Tech Week 2015 History

Do you remember when... It's now 12 years since...
February 10, 2015

Nanga Parbat Climbers Return to BC

Simone Moro Starts his Expedition Next Week (By Raheel...
February 7, 2015

Nanga Parbat Summit Push Aborted

Windy and cold (Newsdesk) The second summit push on...
February 3, 2015

Nanga Parbat Summit-bid from Rupal Side

Russians Waiting in C4 to Make History (By Raheel...
February 2, 2015

K2 finds Star EPIC with closest possible Earth yet

Next step: spectroscopic fingerprint of atmosphere. K2 -...
January 31, 2015

Himalaya study: power of hierarchy in high-pressure situations

Columbia Business School learns from Everest Researchers analyzed more...
January 31, 2015

Nanga Parbat: To be Climbed by First Week of February

Some facts (By Raheel Adnan) “The mountain needs to be...
January 31, 2015

2014 Stats: Mountaineering in Pakistan

The results (By Saad Tariq Siddiq / Karrar Haidri Explorersweb...
January 29, 2015

Waiting: The Usual Winter Nanga Parbat Business

When in doubt, make chapati! (By Raheel Adnan) Winter Nanga...
January 28, 2015

Nanga Parbat: Revol’s Debrief

Frigid hell, said Liz. (By Raheel Adnan) Elisabeth Revol...
January 27, 2015

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