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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Christie Aschwanden	Joaquin Espinosa's Rock Climbing Adventures A scientists explains his attraction to rock climbing.
Outside December 2008 Matt Samet	The Psychedelic First Tommy Caldwell needed a challenge, so he decided to hoist his clanking gear rack and free-climb one of Yosemite's hardest routes in 24 hours or less.
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 Stanley Holmes	Thrills And Chills Scaling frozen walls isn't for the fainthearted. But once you find your footing, ice climbing can become addictive.
Fast Company December 2003 Jim Collins	Leadership Lessons of a Rock Climber For this noted management writer and thinker, the mountain is the ultimate classroom. Here's what he has learned from climbing it.
Outside June 2008 Claire Napier Galofaro	Chris Sharma Chris Sharma is one of the world's strongest technical climbers but has lately favored travel over competition.
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 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
High on Adventure June 2003 Dena Bartolome	A "Peak" Experience Hiking and climbing Spain's hidden Picos de Europa
Outside June 2010 Jennifer L. Schwartz	Teva Games 2010: Daniel Woods 20-year-old climber Daniel Woods finished a disappointing second at the Teva Mountain Games' IFSC Bouldering World Cup. But the Boulder, Colorado-based prodigy is the favorite at this June's World Cup, in Vail.
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.
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 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.
Real Travel Adventures October 2007 Bonnie & Bill Neely	Guide Service In Zion Mountain Using a guide service allows hikers to learn about spots and vistas that may not be so well know.
Outside June 2003 Clyde Soles	Chalk It Up Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day.
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 May 2002 Mark Kroese	Queen of the Mountain In her new autobiography, Lynn Hill, the worlds's most accomplished female rock climber, looks back on three decades of big climbs, big falls, and bigger egos...
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.
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?
Outside April 2006 Josh Dean	Social Climber Is the chalk-bag crowd ready to go upscale? New York City bouldering pioneer Ivan Greene thinks so, and he wants to lead the way with his new clothing line.
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 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 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 May 2009 Dougald MacDonald	Yosemite Roulette Climbing El Capitan without rope, gear, or safety net.
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.
Outside November 2002 Shermakaye Bass	False Summit A famed Texas climbing route gets cloned indoors.
Adventure Jun/Jul 2004 McKenzie Funk	A World of Hurt Proper training and equipment can help prevent injuries in running, kayaking, mountain biking, and sport climbing.
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 June 2003	Virgin Ascents So you want to climb a mountain, but you've never done it before. No sweat -- there's a first time for everything. Even the world's greatest climbers were once beginners like you, gearing up with ropes, carabiners and crampons and heading for the hills for their first technical ascents.
High on Adventure December 2005 Lee Juillerat	Climbing Mount Shasta Shasta is a magical mountain that becomes a part of you after you successfully reach the peak.
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.
Outside April 2005	Mixed Climbing Skills Climbers have long used bolts and mechanical aids on impossibly blank sections of wall, and in the 1990s "mixed climbing" stars like Canmore, Alberta-based Will Gadd began crossing from ice to rock and back without changing equipment.
Outside December 2002 Rob Buchanan	Climbing at the Speed of Soul With his supreme skills on rock, hypercompetitive intensity, and new-age bag of tricks, Dean Potter scrambles up big walls faster than any man alive. So what's the trajectory of all this velocity?
High on Adventure June 2001	Pennsylvania's Outdoors Provide Extreme Experiences Those who are familiar with Pennsylvania know the beauty of its outdoors. Some take to the woods to view nature's glory from a distance, but many take to Pennsylvania's outdoors to compete and conquer...
Fast Company May 2004 Danielle Sacks	60 Seconds With Erik Weihenmayer Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind climber to scale Mt. Everest. Now he's helping corporations see things in a different light.
Outside November 2008 Ryan Krogh	Dean Potter Interview About FreeBASEing the Eiger Dean Potter talks about freeBASEing the Eiger.
Outside August 2002 Jason Daley	The Perils of Sheryl Shery Crow will headline the 23-city Jeep World Outside Festival, between July 10 and August 17, which includes a multisport adventure village and performances by Ziggy Marley, O.A.R., and Train. We caught up with Crow before she hit the road -- and the climbing wall.
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 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 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.
High on Adventure August 2000 Lee Juillerat	Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain
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.
Popular Mechanics July 3, 2008 Peter Fimrite	2900 Feet in 2 Hours, 43 Minutes! Yosemite Climbers Set Record A Lafayette, Calif., rock climber and his Japanese partner snatched the world record for fastest climb up the Nose of El Capitan on Wednesday in a thrilling, heart-stopping display of strength, endurance, concentration and pure guts.
Outside October 2005 Ryan Brandt	Dropping the Ball At a time when participation in some traditional ball sports is in decline nationwide, more extreme sports like surfing and climbing are enjoying unprecedented support at the youth level.
U.S. CPSC July 14, 2010	Muddy Outdoors Recalls Climbing Sticks Due to Fall Hazard Bolts that secure the cam locs to the frame of these climbing sticks that retains the rope around the tree can break, allowing the cam locs to detach from the frame. This causes the retaining rope to detach and the climbing stick to release from the tree, posing a fall hazard to the user.
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 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...
AskMen.com Terry Baldwin	Top 10: Extreme Sports Destinations If you're the type of guy who shows off scars instead of pictures after a vacation, your dream itineraries are here.
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 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 January 2006 Jones et al.	Adventure Life List Make a comeback like surfer Kelly Slater... Bag an 8,000 meter peak... Race hawaii's Ironman... Climb El Cap... Sail an ocean... Kayak the Grand Canyon... Ride the Tour de France... Heli-Ski Alaska... Biking to work... 15 essential fitness tips... etc.