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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 September 2006 |
What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount Everest. |
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Ken Kamler |
Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge. |
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 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 August 2005 |
Ed Viesturs Retires Over the past 16 years, Steady Eddie has spent an estimated 25 days above 8K (26,240 feet) en route to becoming the first American to climb all 14 mountains above that height. |
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 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 April 2003 Jenny Dubin |
Tigers of the Snow Three Generations of Great Climbing Sherpas |
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 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? |
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 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. |
Adventure August 2005 Lindsay Yaw |
There & Back Ed Viesturs became the 12th person to have summited all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. |
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? |
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 May 2003 Jenny Dubin |
Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month |
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 Luke Collins |
Attention Getter Danielle Fisher has climbed the highest peak on each continent, including Mount Everest -- and she's only 20. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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... |
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. |
AskMen.com Steve Richer |
How To: Go Rock Climbing Learn the basics of rock climbing, including what gear you'll need and where to go. |
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 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 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! |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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. |
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. |
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 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 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. |
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. |
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. |
High on Adventure August 2000 Lee Juillerat |
Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain |
Outside August 2001 Brad Wieners |
Networking on the Rope to Success Want some sound business advice? Go climb a mountain. Hey, it's what all the savvy capitalists are doing these days... |
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 January 2006 Greg Child |
Es Ist Mein Bruder! Last summer, the headless corpse of Reinhold Messner's brother Gunther emerged out of the snowmelt on Pakistan's Nanga Parbat. After 35 years, would the discovery finally solve one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries? |
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 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... |
High on Adventure February 2004 |
Everest Base Camp Trek Experiencing Nepal's mountains, villages, and culture |
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? |