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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... |
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... |
High on Adventure February 2004 |
Everest Base Camp Trek Experiencing Nepal's mountains, villages, and culture |
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. |
High on Adventure August 2000 Lee Juillerat |
Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain |
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 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 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. |
Fast Company December 1999 Ron Lieber |
Consultants and Summitry - Into Thin Advice Consultant Debunking Unit |
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 July 2008 |
Serac Adventure Film School Videos Over the last month and a half we've rolled out the top films from the Serac Adventure Film School, and provided tips on filmmaking from award winning director Michael Brown. Watch these movie links and then vote for your favorite. |
Real Travel Adventures July 2006 Arvind Viswanathan |
Valley of the Gods: India Part 2. Visiting Rothang Pass leaves you both glorified and humbled at the same moment. |
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 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 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 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. |
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 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 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? |
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 May 2010 Jay Lavender |
Summit on the Summit The Summit on the Summit expedition was dreamed up by the Ethiopian-born musician Kenna to bring attention to the global water crisis -- a worldwide shortage of clean drinking water that kills more children than any other single cause. |
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? |
High on Adventure June 2003 Dena Bartolome |
A "Peak" Experience Hiking and climbing Spain's hidden Picos de Europa |
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. |
Real Travel Adventures December 2005 Karyn Dawn White |
The Aussie Experience There is absolutely no way to describe the experience into the entirely different world down under. |
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 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. |
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. |
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 December 2002 Brad Wetzler |
The $50,000 Pyramid Mount Everest becomes a prize on TV's Global Extremes. Is this a Good Thing? |
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 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 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 |
Geotimes August 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
No More "Snows of Kilimanjaro"? Mount Kilimanjaro's glaciers have receded dramatically, making the highest point in Africa a high-profile poster child for global warming. Some scientists contend, however, that Kilimanjaro is a poor example, as its glaciers were disappearing before warming set in. |
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 August 2003 |
Base Camp Breakdown Running the numbers on the world's tallest mountain |
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. |
Entrepreneur February 2003 Mark Henricks |
There's Risk Involved Can risking your life on a mountainside make you a better entrepreneur? |
High on Adventure December 1, 2009 Vicki Andersen |
Skiing the Volcano: Mt. Bachelor, Oregon A lighter and drier snowfall than most of the Pacific Northwest resorts make this a hard-to-beat destination. |