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Pilot Dick Rutan, First to Fly Around Earth Without Refueling, Dies at 85

Famed pilot Richard “Dick” Rutan has died. Rutan earned...
May 7, 2024
Everest and Lhotse from the flat glacier at 6,400m.

Everest North Side and Lhotse Open: Summit Pushes Ahead

Everest action is ramping up from near nil to...
May 7, 2024
Climbers seem tiny as they progress up the snowy ridge.

Korean-Nepalese Team Summit Jugal I

Led by Lakpa Dendi Sherpa and 14x8,000m climber Um...
May 7, 2024
Allie Pepper poses in front of the board at Makalu Base Camp

Makalu: Allie Pepper Summits at 3 PM; Now in Camp 3

Allie Pepper of Australia summited Makalu today at 3...
May 6, 2024
an engraving of a rain of fish

Natural Wonders: When Animals Rain From the Sky

For almost as long as people have been writing...
May 6, 2024
Running horizontally in the wheel of death.

‘Wheel of Death’ Would Let Astronauts Stay Healthy

The low gravity and increased radiation of space can...
May 6, 2024
Climbers descending among a maze of ice blocks on Everest's Khumbu Icefall.

More Problems on Everest

Last week's high winds have decreased, but issues and...
May 6, 2024
The Sherpa wears supplementary Oxygen on the summit of Makalu, mountains in background.

Makalu: Summiters Reach Camp 3 in the Dark

There were more summits on Makalu today, but their...
May 5, 2024
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X-Rays, AI Decode Plato’s Deathbed Words

How would you go about reading a rolled-up text...
May 5, 2024
Kayaking Zanskar.

Adventure Links of the Week

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix...
May 5, 2024
Makalu from the rocky morain terrain at Advanced Base Camp

Makalu: One Group Summits, More On the Way

Climbers on Makalu have reached Camp 3 while battling...
May 4, 2024
taam ja hole

World’s Deepest Blue Hole Discovered

The deepest blue hole on Earth plunges over 400...
May 4, 2024
a man paddling a canoe

Weekend Warm-Up: Alone Across the Canadian North by Canoe

When an author, Ph.D, and man called one of...
May 4, 2024
Sentinel satellite image showing Everest and the Khumbu glacier with areas in blue ice marked

Everest Winds Drop, Climbers On the Move

Winds in the Himalaya are slowly dying down as...
May 3, 2024
Nicolas Roulx and Catherine Chagnon at their start point.

Canada West to East Kicks Off From Alaska Border

Nicolas Roulx and Catherine Chagnon have set off on...
May 3, 2024
an ariel view of a hole in the ice

What’s Forming This Giant Hole in the Antarctic Sea Ice? Scientists Finally Know

Every now and then for the last 50 years,...
May 3, 2024
Alasdair McKenzie on the summit of Lhotse, May 2021.

Mystery Cho Oyu South Side Climber is Young Record-Seeker

One of the season's mysteries is out of the...
May 3, 2024
orangutan before/after with and without a facial wound

Orangutan Seen Healing Own Wound with Plants, in World First

For the first time, an animal has been observed...
May 3, 2024
A trekker looks up to a helicopter flying low in the vicinity of Everest Base Camp

Nepal Supreme Court Bans Helicopter Airlifts

A powerful new player has entered the debate about...
May 2, 2024
Detail of the filed teeth from the male individual in grave 25 from Slite, Othem parish, Gotland.

Now We Know Why Vikings Filed Grooves Into Their Teeth

Vikings filed horizontal grooves into their teeth to show...
May 2, 2024
Mircea on the summit of Aconcagua.

Tackling The Seven Summits from Sea Level

Climbing the Seven Summits may be a great personal...
May 2, 2024
climber high on a granite cliff

Making the Most of It in Alaska’s Ruth Gorge

There’s a tradition of improvisation on Mount Dickey in...
May 2, 2024
microscope image of bacteria

Super-Bacteria Found on the International Space Station

The International Space Station seems like the least likely...
May 1, 2024
Tents among huge horizontal crevasses at the Valley of Silence, the Lhotse face behind.

High Winds Partly Destroy Camps 1 and 2 on Everest

Everest climbers are biding their time in Base Camp,...
May 1, 2024