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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 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 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 September 2003 Ted Kerasote |
Ultimate Downer Maegan Carney wants to be the first woman to ski Everest |
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 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 September 2006 |
What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount Everest. |
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? |
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 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 2002 Eric Hansen |
I Poached the White Elephant High over Hemingway's Africa, our hero discovered a last epic feat somehow still undone. Going where no man has ever bothered to go before, he vowed to become the first person to descend Mount Kilimanjaro on a pair of stubby Kneissel Big Foot snowboards. Never mind that it was illegal, and basically insane. |
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 October 2005 Luke Collins |
Attention Getter Danielle Fisher has climbed the highest peak on each continent, including Mount Everest -- and she's only 20. |
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. |
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 May 2003 Jenny Dubin |
Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month |
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. |
Outside September 2006 Mary Turner |
Sandy Hill, 51 For survivor from Everest '96 talks about her heroes who saved her life, the infamous cappuccino maker, and why she thinks journalists mostly got it wrong. |
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. |
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. |
Outside December 2002 Brad Wetzler |
The $50,000 Pyramid Mount Everest becomes a prize on TV's Global Extremes. Is this a Good Thing? |
Entrepreneur May 2003 April Y. Pennington |
On the Record An independent entrepreneur is giving big-label music companies a run for their money. |