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Weekend Warm-Up: Irakli’s Lantern

Deep in the Tusheti Mountains, a lone patriot struggles...
Travis Rice and Chris Rasman search for Alaska's best snowboarding terrain in "Truffle Pigs an Alaskan Odyssey".

Weekend Warm-Up: Truffle Pigs

In 2018, buddies and pro snowboarders Travis Rice and...
Climbers in 1977 at Dope Lake. Photo: Rick Schloss

Friday Night Movie: ‘Valley Uprising’ on Amazon Prime is a Total Hoot

If you haven't seen the 2014 documentary, Valley Uprising,...

How Do We Understand Indigenous Peoples? Fiann Paul Recommends These Great Movies

STORY AND PHOTOS BY FIANN PAUL As a psychoanalyst, I...

Weekend Warm-Up: Troll Wall

Troll Wall, in Norway's Trolltindene massif, is the tallest...

Weekend Warm-Up: Andrzej Bargiel’s Doo Sar Karakorum Adventure

This is a story meant for a new generation...

Weekend Warm-Up: Australian Runner Cosplays as Train Engineer to ‘Run the Line’

Watch a grown man carrying a shovel dressed as...
alex honnold and cody townsend

Watch: Heat Stroke and Awful Skiing as Honnold, Townsend Link Death Valley to Mt. Whitney

It's 217 kilometres from the lowest point in the...

Weekend Warm-Up: East West

Following in the footsteps of Freda Du Faur, three...
Espen Finstad (Secrets of the Ice) and Julian Post-Melbye (Museum of Cultural History) free an ancient ski from the Digervarden ice patch on Sept. 26, 2021. Image: Glacier Archaeology Program / Secrets of the Ice

Best-Preserved Ancient Skis Turn Up — Where Else? — in Norway

On September 20 of this year, a field archaeologist...

Antarctic Triathlon: 5,300km from Patagonia to the South Pole

On November 20, Antonio de la Rosa will begin...

Weekend Warm-Up: Unizaba

Kris Holm has a wacky pastime. He invented municycling,...

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2021 Award-Winning Films Announced

Banff Mountain Film Festival has just announced the 10...

The Route Up Link Sar: A Herd of Ibex Showed the Way

The following is a little add-on to last week's...
Aerial operations search for missing skier Rudi Moder at RMNP in Feb. 1983 Photo RMNP

Long-Lost Skier’s Body Found After 38 Years

On February 13, 1983, 27-year-old ski mountaineer Rudi Moder...
Photo: Graham Zimmerman link sar

Weekend Warm-Up: Link Sar. Plus, an Interview with Graham Zimmerman

In June 2019, alpinist and filmmaker Graham Zimmerman set...

Weekend Warm-Up: The Last Honey Hunter

Mauli Dhan Rai harvested honey from cliff faces in...

Weekend Warm-Up: Danny MacAskill Retrospective

In 2009, Danny MacAskill posted a video on YouTube...

Weekend Warm-Up: Rainspotting — Bikepacking Scotland

In November 2019, a six-person team took their bikes...

Weekend Warm-Up: Viking Crossing

In 2018, four-time world champion stand-up paddleboarder Casper Steinfath...

Smithwick and Kuo Will Try to Ski Dhaulagiri

Dhaulagiri is not just one more ski line to...

Weekend Warm-Up: The Fifty

Skier Cody Townsend never liked to ask the why...

Weekend (Not So) Warm-Up: Exit the North Pole

In 2019, two arctic explorers battled across the arctic...

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