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Outside November 2003 Kevin Fedarko	The Mountain of Mountains How do you crack the code to K2, the darkest, deadliest peak on the planet? If you're a climber, have the courage to accept that you're bound to fail, and the wisdom to know that failure has its own rewards.
Outside March 2007 John Harlin III	Rising Son Can a reluctant climber avoid his fate? In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, The Eiger Obsession, John Harlin III faces his legacy and the mountain that killed his Father.
Outside September 2006 Ed Douglas	Over the Top David Sharp's lonely death on Mount Everest revived the old, raging debates about personal ethics and the wisdom of commercially guided climbing.
Outside September 2005 Mark Jenkins	The Elements of Style It's time for a radical reform of high-altitude mountaineering -- and a fresh debate over what it means to climb right
Outside October 2002 Brad Wetzler	Reinhold Don't Care What You Think A quarter-century after he changed everything by summiting Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, Reinhold Messner is looking fit, feeling adventurous, and acting about as mellow as a snapping turtle. Great men aren't always sweethearts -- and Messner is still the best there ever was.
Outside July 2007 Kevin Fedarko	High Times You were told that Everest base camp is an insult to the true spirit of mountaineering. But why weren't you told about the excellent bars, the butter people, and that friendly playboy bunny from Poland?
Outside September 2006	What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount Everest.
Outside April 2010 Bruce Barcott	Into Teen Air He's 13 years old, and he'-s headed up to 29,000 feet. As a new generation of adventurous kids post monster feats at younger and younger ages, Jordan Romero has his elders asking: Just how young is too young?
Searcher January 2007 Linnea Christiani	Online on Everest The world feels a lot smaller when you can have an interactive e-mail exchange with someone in your family half a globe away and half a day behind or make a satellite phone call from an elevation that can barely sustain life.
Outside January 2008 Alan Prendergast	Dropped When Pete Absolon, the Rocky Mountain director of NOLS, set out for a climb in Wyoming's Wind River Range last summer, life couldn't have been better. A deadly mistake by another man ended it all in an instant, and started a nightmare that's never going to stop.
Adventure December 2005 Dan Duane	Tomaz Humar: Incredible Rescue, Angry Backlash on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat When a helicopter plucked the celebrated mountaineer from a sheer Himalayan face, thousands cheered. So why are top climbers calling his rescue an utter shame?
Outside September 2006 Mark Jenkins	Infinite Sorrow The disappearance of two of North America's best alpinists left a grave question: What happens when the only way out is up?
Outside May 2003	Everest's Destiny Hold on to your crampons. May 29 marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful summit of Mount Everest, by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Record crowds of climbers, trekkers, and gawkers are expected to cram the mountain.
Outside May 2003 Rob Buchanan	Slave to the Quest Ten years ago, extreme snowboarder Stephen Koch cooked up a media-savvy plan to become the first to climb and ride down the Seven Summits. Now there's only one mountain left to conquer: Everest. And for his grand finale, Koch is determined to fling himself down the most dangerous descent possible.
Outside August 2008 Pete Takeda	Last Night I Dreamed I Had Legs A degenerative nerve disease is destroying the body of Jeff Lowe, one of climbing's greatest athletes and innovators. He's seen hard times before, on mountains and in life. But how do you keep going when there's no way up?
Outside December 2005 Nick Heil	The Light of Seven Mountain Suns The Himalayan Cataract Project is curing blindness overnight in the most remote villages of Nepal and India.
Knowledge@Wharton September 24, 2003	A Lofty Take on Leadership: Mountain Climbing and Managing Companies Wharton management professor Michael Useem has just published a book using experiences in mountain climbing to describe how business leaders reach their summits.
Outside June 2003 Nick O'Connell	Mountaineering 101: Top Ten From Half Dome to Denali, meet the best teachers in the business, progressively ratchet up your skill set, and graduate at the top of the continent.
Wired May 2000 Andrew Rice	High Trek Blizzard-ready laptops, snow-penetrating radar, titanium ice screws - an all-new breed of technical climber is tackling Everest this spring.
Outside January 2009 Justin Nyberg	New Kid on the Rock At only 24, Seattle's Colin Haley has turned heads around the world with career-making alpine climbs. He's driven to be the best risky business in an era when the cutting edge leaves no margin for error.
Outside October 2005 Stark et al.	Let the Bad Times Roll Thirteen unlucky people tell of their worst moments while outdoors... Great books about bad luck... Ten worst adventure disasters of the past 200 years...
Outside March 2005 Rob Buchanan	The Purists Flush with tech-boom cash and answering to no one, Alpinist chronicles the exploits of a loosely aligned group of climbers known as the Brotherhood, who devote themselves to difficult routes, minimal gear, and big-time pain and suffering.
Outside February 2008 Dave Hahn	Aces High Make one of the world's greatest Everest guides face his fear of heights by sending him 3,000 feet up El Capitan with Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Ivo Ninov. The result will be panic attacks, cold sweats, and one order of Depends.
Outside January 2007 Dave Hahn	The No Fall Zone When free skier Kit DesLauriers dropped in at 29,035 feet on Mount Everest in October, she became the first person to ski off the Seven Summits.
Outside December 2001	The A-Team Allow us to introduce the 25 most extraordinary people in the world outside, from hard-core adventurers to world-changing environmentalists. They all share one thing: Confronted with the impossible, they succeed, again and again...
Outside December 2005 Conrad Anker	Improving the Odds for Sherpas This all-star pantheon created the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) to teach Sherpas more about avalanche forecasting and crevasse rescue.
Outside April 2006 Aron Ralston	My Summit Problem What would you do after you'd been trapped in the wilderness and forced to cut off your own arm? You probably wouldn't try to become the first person to climb all 59 of Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks in winter, and alone.
Outside July 2008 Thayer Walker	A Long Way for a Short Film Think adventure filmmaking sounds glamorous? Then watch the author get schooled on Kilimanjaro.
Adventure September 2004 David Roberts	K2 at 50: The Bitter Legacy This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of K2. But simmering beneath the official glory is a legacy of backstabbing and betrayal that would ultimately drive one climber to change the course of mountaineering history forever.
Outside March 2006 Mark Jenkins	Lost Horizons Naysayers claim the age of adventure is over. On an unclimbed peak in Tibet, our man declares that it has just begun.
Outside February 2004 Brad Wieners	Mountaineering: The Making of Touching the Void How Joe Simpson's best-selling thriller became a stunning film epic
Outside June 2006 Katie Arnold	She Rocks Steph Davis knows the downside of being one of the world's best women climbers like living out of a car for seven years and having your mom suggest (frequently) that you're out of your mind. The upside? Yosemite. The Andes. And a life in which every day is a thrilling vertical grab.
Outside August 2001 Mark Synnott	Spires of the Bugaboos Forget the Yosemite circus. Head north to Bugaboo Provincial Park, a fortress of world-class granite in a quiet corner of British Columbia...
Outside June 2007 Bryant Urstadt	The Grudge Report Expedition bloggers Tom and Tina Sjogren love a great adventure. But if they don't like yours, get ready for a fight.
Outside April 2009 Conrad Anker	Why Am I Here Again? India's Shark's Fin is a 6,500-foot rock route that's twice as long and just as steep as anything on El Capitan, and once left me defeated.
Knowledge@Wharton Jamie Hammond	Expedition to Ecuador: Leadership and Teamwork at 19,000 Ft. The author joined 13 others on a week-long trip to Ecuador as part of Wharton Leadership Ventures, a program designed to help participants develop leadership skills while climbing some of the highest and most beautiful mountains in the world...
Outside December 2003	XX Factor We celebrate the athletes, explorers, innovators, and troublemakers who are living bigger, braver lives and daring us to follow their lead. These 25 women know something you should know: It's a wide-open world. Grab it. It's yours.
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Ken Kamler	Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge.
High on Adventure February 2004	Everest Base Camp Trek Experiencing Nepal's mountains, villages, and culture
AskMen.com December 12, 2000 Pamela Bode	Mountain Climbing In Nepal Having decided that my next holiday would be trekking in Nepal, I found that training for altitude climbing when you live right on the coast in Sydney is impossible...
Outside November 2003 Mark Jenkins	Head Trip Sometimes the toughest climb is out of your mind and into your own animal skin: knowing how, as an alpine climber, to turn off your head sometimes.
Outside April 2003 Jenny Dubin	Tigers of the Snow Three Generations of Great Climbing Sherpas
Adventure November 2004 Laurence Gonzales	No Margin for Error It is well know that Mount Washington is America's deadliest peak. So why do otherwise smart, capable people keep losing their lives up there?
Salon.com November 20, 2000 Dennis Drabelle	Doctor on Everest by Kenneth Kamler A physician rides the "Into Thin Air" bandwagon with a grisly account of high-altitude medical disasters...
Outside October 2009 Douglas Fields	Are the Mountains Killing Your Brain? Alarming new science shows that thin air can wreck brain cells at lower altitudes than you'd think. Here's how to protect yourself.
High on Adventure August 2000 Lee Juillerat	Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain
Adventure November 2005 Robert Earle Howells	Adventure Travel 2006: The Sports Trips Atlas The best locations around the world for skiing, rafting, mountaineering, diving, and mountain biking.
Outside March 2007 Anthony Cerretani	Eiger, Action Director Stephen Judson follows John Harlin III up the Eiger for the stunning new Imax film The Alps. Get the lowdown on fighting fierce weather and broken ropes while capturing Harlin's story for the big, big screen.
Outside June 2004 Greg Child	Technicolor Darkness In the red-rock high ground of South Africa, climbing still comes down to black and white. The author goes on belay to explore the crags, boulder gardens, and post-Apartheid complications of the world's next climbing mecca.
Outside April 2005 Elizabeth Weil	Babes on Belay Four young climbers hit the road in search of big rock, girl power, and a heavenly interlude of physical bliss.