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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.   |
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... |
Geotimes
September 2005
Kathryn Hansen |
Around Mount Rainier The stratovolcano has not erupted since a few small events were recorded in the early 1800s. But numerous lahars -- mudflows triggered by various events -- continue to reshape the landscape, and the effects are visible throughout the park today. |
Real Travel Adventures
May 2005
Neely & Neely |
Camping & RVing at Mt. Rainier National Park Whenever you go, you'll fall in love with this incredible place of wonder. |
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. |
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
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... |
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. |
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
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
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
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
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
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? |
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
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 |
Real Travel Adventures
November 2008
David C. Terr |
My Travel Adventures in Washington State From its spectacular volcanoes to its thick green forests and exciting cities, Washington has a great deal to offer. |
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
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? |
Adventure
February 2005 |
Who's Stealing the Sierra's Summit Registers Photos of some of the stolen Sierra Nevada summit registers as well as speculation about the thefts. |
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. |
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
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
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Richard Saltus |
Lost Mountain In the final push to the 11,000-foot summit of Monte Perdido in the Spanish Pyrenees, climbers face a treacherous, half-mile-long incline of snow and ice that corkscrews like an Olympic luge track along a sheer rock drop-off. |
Adventure
Jun/Jul 2005
Ken Kamler |
Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge. |
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. |
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 2004
Rob Story |
Climb Every Mole Hill The highest points in heartland states like Kansas and Iowa aren't much to look at, but when you knock off seven of them in a four-day, 3,000-mile blitz . . . well, let's just say the little bastards have a way of kicking back. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Megan Sever |
Glacier: Crown of the Continent Established as a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park's geologic and ecologic significance is internationally recognized. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
December 1999
Ron Lieber |
Consultants and Summitry - Into Thin Advice Consultant Debunking Unit |
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. |
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This Week In Long Odds The rescue effort continues for a climber who fell into the crater of Mount St. Helens. |
Outside
June 2004
Annette McGivney |
National Park Secret Trips Locals' no-tell favorites, from Acadia to Yellowstone to wildest Alaska--along with a roundup of dream towns nearby, the places to eat, drink, and dance after a day or three in backcountry heaven. |
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. |
High on Adventure
June 2003
Dena Bartolome |
A "Peak" Experience Hiking and climbing Spain's hidden Picos de Europa |
Adventure
April 2004 |
Backpacking Ansel Adams's Sierra Nevada The plan: tackle California's Rae Lakes loop. The payoff: Adams's stunning black-and-white pools and peaks in astonishingly "living" color. |
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? |
Geotimes
April 2004
Pinsker & Sever |
Paths of Destruction: The Hidden Threat at Mount Rainier Large mudflows called lahars, can occur without warning -- even in the absence of a significant eruptive event. Orting residents face a one in seven chance that a lahar will occur in their lifetimes... On Nov. 13, 1985, a deadly lahar occurred in Columbia, killing more than 23,000 people... |
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
March 2007
Dennis Lewon |
Hood-Winked The loss of a climbing party last winter raised a mountain of questions. Namely: What was all the fuss about? |
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
August 2003 |
Base Camp Breakdown Running the numbers on the world's tallest mountain |
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... |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Christie Aschwanden |
Joaquin Espinosa's Rock Climbing Adventures A scientists explains his attraction to rock climbing. |
