
Colin Fletcher, the Father of Modern Backpacking
Lieutenant Colin Fletcher looked up from the soggy gray paper bags leaking ropy streams of yellow vomit into the bilge water swirling around his b...
Read moreLieutenant Colin Fletcher looked up from the soggy gray paper bags leaking ropy streams of yellow vomit into the bilge water swirling around his b...
Read moreLike a baccarat player holding his cards close to his tuxedo, the buttoned-down headline barely hints at the payout to come: “John Fairfax, Who Ro...
Read moreIf you’re in your mid-40s and feel it’s too late to follow your dreams of hardcore, on-a-shoestring international travel for months on end, well,...
Read moreOn April 4, 1948, 29-year-old Earl Shaffer shouldered a rucksack and started hiking near Mt. Oglethorpe in Georgia. He soon encountered a picnick...
Read moreIt was called “The Children’s Blizzard.” A powerful, quick-moving snowstorm that blasted the American Midwest on January 12, 1888. It was one of t...
Read moreAng 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...
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