Reviews

Weekend Warm-up: Banff Festival Trailer

Every year, the trailer for the Banff Centre Mountain...
June 1, 2019

ExWeb’s Links of the Week

Here at ExWeb, when we're not in the outdoors,...
May 26, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Everest in Virtual Reality

Last year, Jon Griffith of the UK and Sherpa...
May 18, 2019

Roundup: Spring Arctic Expeditions

Late April-early May is the best time for High...
May 11, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Alex Honnold Kicks Back

In these two short clips, Alex Honnold shows that...
May 5, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Follow Through

In a world where success is regularly measured by...
April 27, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Far Away

"Kat starts grinding into an off-width and then this...
April 20, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Uruca II, Bugaboos Edition

This animated film stresses human -- some would say...
April 6, 2019

Weekend Warm-up: Twenty

With many sports, you can imagine the emotion that...
March 31, 2019

Weekend Warm-up: The Denis Urubko Story

"I was eating something from the rubbish, I was...
March 23, 2019

Crossing the Northwest Passage, in Stages

From his home in Iqaluit, on southern Baffin Island,...
March 21, 2019
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Weekend Warm-up: Wadi Rum

“Every person brings a different vision to the world....
March 10, 2019

Gear Review: Using Camp Stoves on Polar Expeditions

Early one spring in Resolute, the gateway to High...
March 9, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Interview with Doug Scott

Doug Scott's legendary resumé began in the fells of...
March 2, 2019

“Holy S**t!” Free Solo Wins Oscar

Jimmy Chin's unscripted response when Free Solo won the...
February 25, 2019

Ski Expedition Across Kamchatka Begins

Canadian endurance athlete Ray Zahab and his partner, Italian...
February 19, 2019
Alex Honnold talks about his free solo climb on El Capitan in Yosemite NP. https://www.ted.com

Weekend Warm-up: Alex Honnold on Free Soloing El Cap

Free soloing a 1,000-metre wall - and not just...
February 16, 2019

Kilian Jornet completes Epic “Hamster Wheel” Ski Challenge

Kilian Jornet, ultra runner, mountain runner, extreme skier, ski...
February 11, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: First Winter Ascent of Gasherbrum II

Normal people, smart people, wouldn't even go outside in...
February 9, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: No Quarter

"The bush is thick, things are hard" --Andrew McNab If...
February 2, 2019
Nomination of Chimmy Chin's "Free Solo" film for the Academy Awards 2019 announced on Orcars.com

Free Solo Nominated for an Oscar

Free Solo, the acclaimed film about Alex Honnold’s ropeless climb...
January 24, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Hunting with Falcons

According to Shawn Hayes, falconry is not an art...
January 19, 2019

Weekend Warm-Up: Zabardast

So why bother with a nearly one hour-long film...
January 12, 2019

Book Review: The White Darkness

"I think of myself as this atom on an...
December 6, 2018

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