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Legends Series: Naomi Uemura

Few explorers radiate the unassuming, endearing, and gentle image...

Climber Missing on Khan Tengri

The two neighboring Snow Leopard peaks continue to show...
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New Big Wall Climb in East Greenland

A three-person team of Matteo Della Bordella (Italy), Silvan...
1967 photo of David Roberts on Harvard Mountaineering expedition in Alaska. c. Matt Hale

Revered Adventure Writer David Roberts Dead at 78

With a prolific body of work that spanned almost...

Newcomers’ Guide: The Snow Leopard Challenge

The Seven Summits and 8,000'ers aren’t the only popular...

Weekend Warm-Up: Wolfpack

When you hit rock bottom, they say you find...
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Two More New Routes in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca

Reports are just surfacing of two new first ascents...

ExWeb’s Adventure Links of The Week

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

August 22, 1961: First Swim Across Lake Michigan

In every sport, there are key moments where people...

Science Links of the Week

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

Rock Climbing in the Caribbean

Most people think of the Caribbean as a place...

Can Independent Climbers Coexist With Outfitters on 8,000m Peaks?

Is it possible for commercial and independent teams to...

Eccentric Explorers: Jan Welzl

Born in the Czech region of Moravia in 1868,...

Great Survival Stories: Shipwreck, Sharks, and Deborah Kiley

Deborah Kiley's gruesome, five-day ordeal in 1982 began as...

Spaghetti Tour FKT Falls Again, By Over Four Hours

Ultra-endurance athletes, alpinists, and adventurers seem to have really...

How Valentin Mikhailov Died on Pobeda

A rescue mission on a dangerous peak. Inexperienced climbers...
Anna Troup touches the wall at the Border Hotel in Kirk Yetholm

Women’s Pennine Way Record Shattered

On August 17, 2021, veteran endurance runner Anna Troup...
Mount Agner in the Dolomites

Two Big Solos in the Dolomites

At the end of July, 29-year-old David Leduc of ...
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New Route on Rarely Climbed 5,000m Peruvian Peak

In the Cordillera Central of Peru, A Peruvian-French team...

Hungarians Bail on Dangerous Pobeda

It has been a dangerous, tragic season on Pobeda,...
Jobush sits atop Far East Chulu in Nepal

Jost Kobusch to Return to Winter Everest

The young German climber Jost Kobusch is going back...
Routledge in Kabul, 'goofing off'. Photo: Miles Routledge, PA Media

Student Traveling “to Goof Off” Evacuated from Kabul

Twenty-one-year-old thrill seeker Mile Routledge of Birmingham, England has...

Lakpa Sherpa on K2 and Manaslu

Lakpa Sherpa, born in the village of Makalu 30...

Natural Wonders: Underwater Icicle

A silent killer forms below sea ice and freezes...