Ang Rita Sherpa climbed Everest for the final time on May 23, 1996, alongside Göran Kropp, just days after the disaster that took the lives of ...
Read moreRosalie Barrow Edge was 52 years old and summering in Paris when she opened the pamphlet that ignited her second act as a conservationist fireb...
Read moreAt first look, Sonia Livanos seems an unlikely climbing hero. A 99-pound weekend warrior who was born and raised at sea level and climbed only wi...
Read moreThe Patkai mountains are small for the Himalaya: Only 12,552 feet at their highest. But on August 2nd 1943, they proved too mighty for U.S. Air T...
Read moreIn early August 1953, the American Karakoram Expedition was hunkered at more than 25,200 feet on the Abruzzi Spur of K2, the highest unclimbed mo...
Read moreThey don’t do bike races like they used to. Take the Giro d’Italia, one of the world’s longest and most prestigious stage races. Today, the race ...
Read moreJohn Salathé, the first real icon of Yosemite climbing, didn’t see the valley for the first time until he was 46 years old. He’d just started clim...
Read moreThere are a great many ways to get to Australia from Germany, nearly all of them easier than the route and method chosen by Oskar Speck in 1932...
Read moreNicholas Clinch standing, middle of back row. American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition. Photo: via AAC. Despite a nickname that makes it seem...
Read moreEverest was first climbed 70 years ago this week, cementing Edmund Hillary's and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay's place in world history. Hillary has left...
Read moreAmy Johnson was your classic dreamer. Anybody who’s ever pushed back from the expected will recognize a little bit of themselves in her story. We...
Read moreOn February 22, Aleksander Doba made the last few strides to the top of Kilimanjaro, a pleased 74-year-old man, waving to fellow climbers with hi...
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