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A Cold Early December Yields New Mixed Route In The Dolomites
This past week, Simon Gietl and Andrea Oberbacher established...
Space Agency Issues Challenge: Find the Christmas Asteroid
Christmas is coming early for amateur astronomers. On Dec....
Coming Soon: Villanueva O’Driscoll and the Dodos Do Greenland
How to describe the Dodos? A band of merry...
Bird Missing For 140 Years In Papua New Guinea Appears On Film
A month-long expedition in Papua New Guinea last September...
Heinz Stucke, Cycling’s World Traveler, Makes It To Netflix
Forget about Instagram's travel influencers — Heinz Stucke has...
222 Kilometres Per Hour — By Wind Power Alone!
By anyone's standards, 222kph is speedy. If the only...
Weekend Warm-Up: ‘NEOTENY’, or The Joys of Playing in the Snow
If you don't have a silly grin on your...
Ukraine Manages To Hold Its Climbing Championships In Kyiv
For a country under constant bombardment from an invading...
Will Bosi Displays Preternatural Climbing Skill With 8B+ Flash, 8C In Two Tries
For most boulderers, flashing even one climb a grade...
Will Iconic North Pole Station Barneo Ever Open Again?
If you’re planning to head to the North Pole...
Fascinating Deep-Sea Creatures Discovered Off Western Australia
Scientists on an Australian research vessel found stunning deep-sea...
World’s Oldest Living Land Animal Pre-Dates The Theory of Evolution
Charles Darwin and his crew had just embarked on...
The Dinosaur Known as ‘The Destroyer of Shins’
In 2014, paleontologists discovered a new type of ankylosaur,...
UK Archaeologists Discover “Richest of its Kind” Medieval Necklace
Archeologists working in the small English village of Harpole,...
New Find Prompts Controversy Over Whether Pre-Humans Used Fire
Paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer Lee Berger announced on...
Climbers Meet Accidentally When Two Big New Routes Link Up in Dolomites
One elegant new route on Torre Trieste — a...
‘The Worst Journey in the World’ Becomes Graphic Novel
Exactly 100 years after its original publication, the greatest...
Weekend Warm-Up: Climbers Brave Scary 8b+, Vertical Grass, and Vomiting Birds
So you think you want to climb a sea...
Possible 10a Sport Climb: Adam Ondra and Jakob Schubert Try ‘Project Big’
A few days ago, Adam Ondra suggested 'Project Big'...
A Three-Week Traverse of the Northern Patagonia Icecap
Climbers Isidora Llarena, Rebeca Caceres, and Nadine Lehner recently...
Ancient ‘Zombie’ Viruses Revived From Siberian Permafrost
If you're tired of scientists stoking fear about deadly...