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Astronaut Captures ‘Absolutely Unreal’ Photo of Northern Lights From Space

There are those who say the northern lights are...
A climber on a vertical wall, the frozen sea with the low winter sun at his feet.

Tomaszewski and Haldas: Greenland Climbing Report

Three weeks after arriving on Greenland's west coast, Marcin...
A cropped version of photographer Nicolas Remy's award-winning spotted handfish photograph.

Photographer Snags Image of Rare Tasmanian Spotted Handfish

There are only 3,000 spotted handfish still crawling around...
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This Map Will Show You How Much Wild Space is Left on the Planet

Sometimes it seems like we're running out of wild...
Cazzanelli on a summit ridge, snowcapped peaks all around.

Francois Cazzanelli: ‘We Are the Instagram Climbing Generation, in a Good Way’

New lines or first winter ascents are coming almost...
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Beloved Alaskan Ice Climber Dies in Car Crash

After 20 years of ice climbing and snowboarding adventures,...
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‘Forbidden Planet’ the Size of Jupiter Discovered Orbiting Tiny Star

There are laws of planet formation that seldom bend...
a huge flat glacier as ween from a plane in low winter light.

Jost Kobusch Back in Talkeetna

Back in Talkeetna after the bush plane finally picked...

Polar Bear Day Memories: Lessons From a Close Encounter

Arctic travelers tend to view polar bears differently than...
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New Layer Discovered in Earth’s Core

If you journey to the center of the Earth,...
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Siegrist Goes ‘Back to the Future’ For One of the Hardest Climbs in the U.S.

One unlikely strip of stone in southern Nevada’s Clear...
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Science Links of the Week 

A passion for the natural world drives many of...

Adventure Links of the Week

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix...
Climber maneuvres on the vertical rock wall, Greenland's ice in background.

New Winter Route on Greenland’s Big Walls

Twenty-six days had passed without news from Marcin Tomaszewski...
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Weekend Warm-Up: ‘The Hunt’ To Restore Indigenous Identity

How do Native Americans reclaim the identity that was...
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Motorola Defy Satellite Dongle Brings Off-Grid Texting to Smartphones

Leave it to one American cellular brand to condense...
A young man 'talking' in different languages, represented by different countries' flags.

From Esperanto to ‘Clicks’: Getting to Know Some of Our World’s Lesser Known Languages

The nearly eight billion people in the world speak...
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The Last Run: Man Hangs Up the Boards After 90 Years of Skiing

At a tiny ski mountain in a minor New...
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A Winter Repeat of Mont Blanc’s Legendary Freney Central Pillar

It was probably a normal Valentine's Day for alpinist...

Black Hole The Size of 20 Million Suns Speeding Through Space

An enormous black hole has left the center of...
an orca whale

Orca Cares For Pilot Whale Calf in Never Before Seen Behavior

Scientists studying orcas off the west coast of Iceland...
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Exploration Mysteries: Ksar Draa

Recently, a spectacular image of a castle-like structure standing...
the climbers wave from the middle of a seemingly endless rock face.

A Winter Repetition of Cazzanelli’s Landmark Matterhorn Route

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Jerome Perruquet...
The James Webb Telescope against the backdrop of a galaxy

‘It’s Bananas’: James Webb Telescope Finds Six Galaxies That Challenge Current Understanding

A group of scientists trawling through the original batch...