50 Years Ago: The Worst Mountain Disaster in British History Jilli Cluff 22/11/2021 Explorers History Survival Fifty years ago this week, the UK experienced the worst mountaineering debacle in modern history. Five adolescent students and their guide p...
Winter Karakorum: Client Grace Tseng Bound for K2, and Maybe More Angela Benavides 22/11/2021 K2 Karakorum Winter 8000ers Two years ago, we wondered about the future of Winter K2. Its fate is now clearer. Like many other 8,000'ers, what used to be known as the S...
Zara Rutherford, Round-the-World Pilot, Stuck in Russia Kristine De Abreu 21/11/2021 Arctic Nineteen-year-old Zara Rutherford's bid to become the youngest woman and the first Belgian to fly around the world has run into problems sin...
ExWeb’s Adventure Links of the Week Ash Routen 21/11/2021 Adventure Travel When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Sometimes we’re a little too plugged in and browsin...
Exploratory Cuisine: Sled Dogs lawrence millman 20/11/2021 Arctic On one of my visits to Greenland’s capital Nuuk, I went to an open-air market called Braedtet (The Plank) in search of my supper. Displayed ...
Science Links of the Week Rebecca McPhee 20/11/2021 Natural History A passion for the natural world drives many of our adventures. And when we’re not actually outside, we love delving into the discoveries abo...
Weekend Warm-Up: Australian Runner Cosplays as Train Engineer to ‘Run the Line’ Sam Anderson 20/11/2021 Adventure Films Endurance Watch a grown man carrying a shovel dressed as a train engineer run a marathon through muddy swamps, dense brambles, and people’s backyards....
Interview: Guillaume Moreau on 7,600km Through the Canadian Wilderness Martin Walsh 19/11/2021 Adventure Travel Arctic After 234 days and 7,600km, Guillaume Moreau and Nicolas Roulx have completed what may be the longest Canadian wilderness expedition since 1...
Jost Kobusch Climbing a “Not Obvious” Peak near Annapurna Angela Benavides 19/11/2021 Alpine style Annapurna Everest Before Jost Kobusch begins his winter, solo attempt on Everest's West Ridge, he is acclimatizing around Annapurna. He also hopes to notch a ...
Batard Speaks but Says Little About Sajid Sadpara Angela Benavides 19/11/2021 8000ers Everest After Sajid Sadpara was evacuated from the Khumbu on Wednesday amid much speculation, we asked expedition leader Marc Batard to help us sepa...
Rare Blood Micromoon Visible Tonight Rebecca McPhee 18/11/2021 Space Skywatchers across parts of Asia, the Americas, Australia, and especially New Zealand will witness a rare lunar spectacle tonight. A blood m...
Mountains Climbed Just Once, or Not At All Kris Annapurna 18/11/2021 Alpine style Climbing Himalaya Far from the murmur of people and the glow of headlamps, free from fixed ropes and abandoned tents, many mountains remain solitary places, f...
Silvan Schupbach Frees Switzerland’s Hardest Trad Multi-Pitch Jilli Cluff 18/11/2021 Climbing On October 15, Swiss alpinist Silvan Schupbach freed a newly established multi-pitch trad line in the Bernese Alps. Christened Tradündition ...
Natural Wonders: Pyrosomes Kristine De Abreu 17/11/2021 Natural History Pyrosomes are often called the "unicorns of the sea". Why? Because we barely know anything about them. Since 2013, they have made several ap...
