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The World According to Guinness: Reinhold Messner Stripped of Two Mountaineering Records
Guinness World Records -- better known for awarding those...
Queen Guitarist Brian May Rocks NASA (Literally)
Bringing an all-new meaning to the phrase, "we will...
Supercontinent Will Kill Us All, Researchers Say
The climate will kill us, and the mechanism will...
Team ‘Disproves’ Da Vinci’s Rule of Trees — Or Does It?
Wales’ Bangor University recently claimed that a group of...
Deep-Sea ‘Hoofprints’ Came From This Elusive Creature
What made these "hoofprints" at the bottom of the...
Local Climbers Take On Unclimbed Zanskar Peaks
Still relatively wild and lonely, Ladakh offers a long...
RNA Recovered From Tasmanian Tiger For First Time
For the first time, geneticists have retrieved and decoded...
Weekend Warm-Up: ‘Wet Lycra Nightmare’ Doesn’t Scare Cannon, Stroh
The stimulations of Wet Lycra Nightmare are subtle.
At least,...
Japanese Trio Make First Ascent of 6,400m Ghamubar Zom V
On their second try, Yudai Suzuki, Kei Narita, and...
Russians to Attempt Unfinished Nepali Route on Cho Oyu’s South Face
While commercial teams flock to Cho Oyu's normal route...
World’s Oldest Known Wooden Structure Found in Zambia
On the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia,...
You’re Not Historic, So Don’t Leave Your Junk (or Your Body) At Historic Sites
Last month, I visited Beechey Island in the Canadian...
Visa Problems, Confusion Swirl Around Everest North Side
International teams, outfitted by Nepali companies, crossed the Tibetan...
The Largest Insect That Ever Lived — Don’t Worry, It’s Not A Mosquito
While some of us are still recovering from the...
