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COVID-19 and Mountain Sports

Mountaineering researchers from Scotland, France, Canada and Germany have...
October 28, 2020

Banff Book Competition Winners Announced

The winners of nine categories in the prestigious Banff...
October 27, 2020

Update on Winter Broad Peak

Russian-American Alex Goldfarb and Hungarian Zoltan Szlanko entered the...
October 27, 2020

Teams Head to Khumbu Despite Closure Rumors

Teams are currently heading to Ama Dablam and nearby...
October 26, 2020

ExWeb’s Links of The Week

Here at ExWeb, when we’re not outdoors, we get...
October 25, 2020

Weekend Warm-Up: The Porter

To climb Mt Everest, not only do climbers need...
October 24, 2020

James Pearson Nails Second Ascent of Hardest Trad Route

By Seiji Ishii On October 21, British climber James Pearson...
October 23, 2020

Five Last Great Alpine Climbs

By the mid-19th century, most of Europe's major alpine...
October 23, 2020

Three Peaks, Nine Days, No Shoes

In a year when outdoor athletes, stranded by COVID-19,...
October 22, 2020

Updated: Sergi Mingote to Co-Lead Winter K2

Like many of us, Sergi Mingote has had a...
October 21, 2020

Kilimanjaro Fire is Out at Last

"The fire has finally been put out," a SummitClimb...
October 21, 2020

A New Route on a 6,000m Peak in Pakistan

Flying under the radar, French climbers Symon Welfringer and...
October 20, 2020

Cyclist and Cat: Now an Audiobook

Warning: cuteness overload When Dean Nicholson set out in 2018...
October 20, 2020

The Everest Lawsuit: Exclusive Interview with Garret Madison

It is not surprising that in a normal season,...
October 19, 2020

ExWeb’s Links of The Week

Here at ExWeb, when we’re not outdoors, we get...
October 18, 2020

Weekend Warm-Up: The Last Ascent

In 2014, Canadian ice climber Will Gadd, 52, made...
October 17, 2020

Kilimanjaro Fire Rages, Climbers Evacuated

"The fire is BIG," Felix Berg of SummitClimb told...
October 16, 2020

Nepalis Summit Baruntse!

It's almost hard to believe during this somber year,...
October 15, 2020

Manaslu Summited

The Bahraini expedition reached the summit of Manaslu at...
October 15, 2020

Kilimanjaro on Fire

A large bush fire has engulfed the slopes of...
October 14, 2020

Nepal Changes Its Mind Again

Just hours after Nepal announced that as of October...
October 14, 2020

Stranded in Peru for Seven Months, Man Finally Reaches Machu Picchu

It’s estimated to have taken 50 years to construct,...
October 14, 2020

Himalayan Update: Manaslu and Nepal’s 6,000’ers

The Bahraini team are back in Manaslu Base Camp,...
October 13, 2020

Dianne Whelan: 500 Days in the Wild

In 2015, Canadian filmmaker Dianne Whelan set off on...
October 12, 2020