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Ousland and Colliard Near Finish of Ellesmere Island Crossing
After 46 days, Borge Ousland and Vincent Colliard are...
A History of Climbing on Nanga Parbat’s Diamir Face
Denis Urubko and Maria Cardell are in Pakistan to...
Tireless Vedrines Skis Mont Blanc’s Four Faces in 21 Hours
Benjamin Vedrines is setting new records in the old...
The Battle Over the World’s Richest Shipwreck and its $16 Billion Treasure
Researchers have finally confirmed that a long-sunken hulk off...
David Goettler on Modern Alpinism, Xenon, and His Upcoming Climb of Nanga Parbat
David Goettler is on his way to Nanga Parbat...
Hoax or Mistake? The Bird Audubon Painted That Never Existed
On Dec. 3, 1827, an engraving changed the world...
Starlink Satellites Are ‘Leaking’ Radio Emissions
Specialists at Australia's Square Kilometer Array (SKA) released a...
Terraforming Mars: Will It Happen? Is It Even Possible?
Last week, the Trump administration released a presidential budget...
Nanga Parbat: Quieter Than Usual But not Empty
Those climbers who didn't cancel their plans when the...
Quipu: The Inca’s Mysterious Recording Device
Long before Spanish colonization, the indigenous people of Peru...
New Scans Show Fate of Sunken SS Terra Nova
This week, a team of maritime archaeologists completed a...
Body of Mountaineer Who Fell to His Death on McKinley Recovered
On June 2, ski mountaineer Alex Chiu, 41, of...
The Werewolf Hunting Craze in 17th-Century France
In September of 1573, authorities in the Franche-Comté region...
Duo Kayaks 720km Through Stormy Alaskan Waters
Canadian adventurer Frank Wolf and teammate David Berrisford have...
Nuptse: The Hardest Part of the Everest-Lhotse-Nuptse Triple Crown
Climbing Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse in a single season...
Looking Back: The Disappearance of Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker on Everest in 1982
In the spring of 1982, a small British team...
Using Sound to Save the ‘Little Dodo’
The tooth-billed pigeon, often dubbed the "little dodo," is...
