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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 April 2003 Jenny Dubin |
Tigers of the Snow Three Generations of Great Climbing Sherpas |
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 September 2006 |
What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount 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 |
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. |
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... |
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 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 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 February 2004 |
Everest Base Camp Trek Experiencing Nepal's mountains, villages, and culture |
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 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 May 2003 Jenny Dubin |
Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month |
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. |
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 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... |
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 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 August 2003 |
Base Camp Breakdown Running the numbers on the world's tallest mountain |
Outside November 2007 Christian DeBenedetti |
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hale, Hearty, Tough-As-Nails, Acclimatized-At-Birth Mountain People... The skyscrapers of Manhattan may not reach as high as Everest, but this is where Tsering Norbu Sherpa, a member of mountaineering's most famous clan, is making a new life. |
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Ken Kamler |
Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge. |
Sports Illustrated May 29, 2001 Ellie Weihenmayer |
Vision Quest Last Thursday, Erik Weihenmayer, 32, became the first blind climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest. His wife, Ellie, monitored his ascent from their house in Golden, Colo., and offers these thoughts on his accomplishment... |
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. |
High on Adventure June 2002 Camilla Hvalsoe |
Summit Day -- Mount Kilimanjaro Scaling Africa's highest peak... |
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. |
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 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. |
Entrepreneur November 2003 Mark Henricks |
Miracle Growth Here's how the fastest-growing companies do it. You can, too. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Outside September 2006 Nick Heil |
Pax Himalaya A tourism industry hobbled by years of civil war and political instability looks to rebound as Nepal makes moves toward a lasting peace. Is it finally safe to go back? |
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. |
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 February 2007 |
Conrad Anker & Jenni Lowe A new documentary details the history of the foundation of the Khumbu Climbing School. |
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. |
CIO May 15, 2003 Julie Hanson |
Because It's There Mount Everest poses many challenges. Rough, variable weather. Altitude acclimatization. Hazardous icefalls. And then there's setting up an Internet cafe on a glacier that moves up to three feet a day. |
AskMen.com March 3, 2014 Chris Weiss |
What Does It Take To Survive Absolutely Anything? Tim Medvetz is lending his extreme outdoor experiences to the new Nat Geo WILD series Going Wild. Medvetz has found a few clothing materials that he relies on. |
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... |
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 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. |
Real Travel Adventures February 2006 Mary McIntosh |
The Living Goddess of Nepal Nepal is an exciting and exotic blend of the ancient and the modern. |
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. |