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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
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. |
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. |
AskMen.com
December 24, 2002
Harry Marks |
Tibet: A Wonder In The Mountains With a challenging landscape and tumultuous political situation, the culture and sights Tibet has to offer are often overlooked, despite being of great interest to inquisitive travelers. |
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? |
High on Adventure
October 2003 |
Patagonia's Paine Circuit A 100-mile trek of Chile's most beautiful massif |
High on Adventure
June 2002
Camilla Hvalsoe |
Summit Day -- Mount Kilimanjaro Scaling Africa's highest peak... |
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. |
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
September 2006
Nick Heil |
Pax Himalaya A tourism industry hobbled by years of civil war and political instability looks to rebound as Nepal makes moves toward a lasting peace. Is it finally safe to go back? |
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
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. |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
Top 10: Exhilarating Activities For 2008 Whether it's skiing down a mountain or hot-air-ballooning across the skies, you've got to "up" the excitement level in your life. Here are 10 activities to increase your excitement level. |
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
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
September 2003
Maria Coffey |
The Survivors "He died doing what he loved best," they always say. But when climbers meet their end on the high peaks, the ordeal is just beginning for their wives, husbands, children, parents, and friends. An exclusive excerpt from Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow |
Outside
November 2007
Christian DeBenedetti |
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hale, Hearty, Tough-As-Nails, Acclimatized-At-Birth Mountain People... The skyscrapers of Manhattan may not reach as high as Everest, but this is where Tsering Norbu Sherpa, a member of mountaineering's most famous clan, is making a new life. |
Outside
April 2010 |
The Best Adventure Trips of 2010 Our mission: Sort through 763 of the world's most spectacular new outfitted adventures and choose 20 that will blow your mind, but not your savings. |
Real Travel Adventures
June 2010
Leslie R. Adams |
Finally, Tibet!! My little hostel is smack in the middle of the Tibetan town, near everything. On my roof I can see 360 degrees of mountains and sky and touch the clouds and there, right there is the Potala Palace!!! |
Sports Illustrated
May 29, 2001
Ellie Weihenmayer |
Vision Quest Last Thursday, Erik Weihenmayer, 32, became the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest. His wife, Ellie, monitored his ascent from their house in Golden, Colo., and offers these thoughts on his accomplishment... |
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 2003
Jenny Dubin |
Tigers of the Snow Three Generations of Great Climbing Sherpas |
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? |
Real Travel Adventures
September 2006
Julie Thompson |
Trading Home Comforts For Dreamy Mountains in Nepal Nepal is home to the breathtaking Himalayan mountain range which contains eight of the world s ten highest peaks including Mt Everest, not to mention spectacular scenery and wildlife. |
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 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
July 2008
Thayer Walker |
A Long Way for a Short Film Think adventure filmmaking sounds glamorous? Then watch the author get schooled on Kilimanjaro. |
Outside
December 2002
Brad Wetzler |
The $50,000 Pyramid Mount Everest becomes a prize on TV's Global Extremes. Is this a Good Thing? |
Outside
September 2003
Ted Kerasote |
Ultimate Downer Maegan Carney wants to be the first woman to ski Everest |
Outside
September 2007
Nick Heil |
Elevated Can Viagra really improve high-altitude performance? |
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
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 2003 |
(Epic) Sean Glaccum has his eye on all eight of Nepal's 8,000-meter peaks, but he's not after the summits. A 25-year-old river guide from Ketchum, Idaho, Glaccum is on a quest to become the first person to kayak the major rivers that drain the highest mountains in the Himalayan kingdom. |
Popular Mechanics
January 8, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Mt. Everest Climbers Measure Lowest Blood Oxygen Levels on Record--Their Own How low can your blood oxygen level go? To find out, you might need to climb a mountain. |
Outside
March 2007 |
Best Trips 2007 Whether you want to raft an unknown Himalayan river or link a few Colorado peaks in your own backyard, here are 30 adventures to stoke your wanderlust. |
Outside
April 2010
Dean King |
In the Land of the Human-Sucking Bogs Retracing Mao Zedong's epic 1934 Long March through China's Great Snowy Mountains, the author gains a new respect for the few who survived -- and discovers a rugged wilderness ripe for modern adventure. |
Adventure
Jun/Jul 2005
Ken Kamler |
Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge. |
Adventure
Jun/Jul 2005
Rachel Scheer |
Nepal on the Brink Photographer Samantha Appleton treks through the adventure travel classic to experience the austere natural beauty coexisting with the harsh political reality. |
Outside
September 2006
Brad Wetzler |
Something Happened Sending Jon Krakauer to Everest was my idea. After the news broke, I spent the better part of a day wondering if I'd put him in a frozen grave. |
Outside
May 2007
Abrahm Lustgarten |
Automated Response Helicopter rescues on the summit of Everest may soon be reality. And the pilot won't be anywhere in sight. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2006
Mary McIntosh |
The Living Goddess of Nepal Nepal is an exciting and exotic blend of the ancient and the modern. |
Outside
August 2003 |
Base Camp Breakdown Running the numbers on the world's tallest mountain |
Outside
October 2005
Luke Collins |
Attention Getter Danielle Fisher has climbed the highest peak on each continent, including Mount Everest -- and she's only 20. |
Outside
September 2006
Tim Sohn |
Impossible to Forget Survivors from Everest '96 recall a day of terror and confusion that many still believe was distorted in ways that oversimplified complex events and dishonored the dead. |
High on Adventure
April 2002
Don Harrison |
Fowl Play in the Andes "Chicken" in Peru's Cordillera Blanca... |
Outside
May 2003
Jenny Dubin |
Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month |
CIO
May 15, 2003
Julie Hanson |
Because It's There Mount Everest poses many challenges. Rough, variable weather. Altitude acclimatization. Hazardous icefalls. And then there's setting up an Internet cafe on a glacier that moves up to three feet a day. |
IDB America
July 2002
Claudia Neira |
Faith that moves mountains Jaime Vinals feels an irrepressible attraction for heights. So much so that he is the only Central American to have scaled the seven highest summits in the world, including Mount Everest, which he succeeded in doing on May 23, 2001. |
AskMen.com
March 3, 2014
Chris Weiss |
What Does It Take To Survive Absolutely Anything? Tim Medvetz is lending his extreme outdoor experiences to the new Nat Geo WILD series Going Wild. Medvetz has found a few clothing materials that he relies on. |
Outside
September 2008
Emily Matchar |
What's Your Himalayan IQ? The new, 560-page book Fallen Giants, by professors Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver, is the most exhaustive narrative history of Himalayan climbing to date. It's also the subject of this month's quiz. Pencils out -- begin! |
