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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. |
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. |
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... |
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 |
High on Adventure August 2000 Lee Juillerat |
Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain |
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 November 2008 Rob Story |
The Goat Route Ski tourists may flock to the Haute Route of France and Switzerland, but this crew wanted more. So they skinned, pisted, and off-pisted all the way across the westernmost Alps -- with a little help from 59 lifts and Hunter S. Thompson. |
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? |
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 Stanley Holmes |
Thrills And Chills Scaling frozen walls isn't for the fainthearted. But once you find your footing, ice climbing can become addictive. |
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 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 May 2006 |
Miracle in the Andes In this exclusive excerpt from the book Miracle in the Andes, Nando Parrado reveals the untold horrors of their suffering, and the courage and faith that got them out alive. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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 |
Smithsonian July 2007 J. Madeleine Nash |
Chronicling the Ice Long before global warming became a cause celebre, Lonnie Thompson was extracting climate secrets from ancient glaciers. He finds the problem is even more profound than you might have thought. |
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. |
Outside December 2004 Mark Jenkins |
Freezer Burn How do you go native on an island made of ice? Scale glaciers, strip down, and steam it off. |
Outside November 2003 |
The Universal Language of Pow Ready to grab fresh big air? We've got hemispheres of the white stuff -- and timely beta on boosting your stamina, choosing the right equipment, and finding singular steeps close to home. Who says winter ever needs to end? |
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. |
Fast Company May 2004 Danielle Sacks |
60 Seconds With Erik Weihenmayer Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind climber to scale Mt. Everest. Now he's helping corporations see things in a different light. |
Outside March 2004 |
Outside's Travel Awards: Ten Best Trips of the Year Trips that inspire, excite, recharge, and revolutionize your sense of possibility: Kenya: Climbing Mount Kenya... Tanzania: Mountain-Biking the Savanna... Antarctica: Following in Shackleton's Footsteps... Maine: Allagash Waterway Canoe Trip... etc. |
Outside February 2004 Eric Hansen |
Winter's Wonderland Workout Keeping super-fit from November to April outside of the gym is easy. |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2005 Erico Guizzo |
Into Deep Ice What does the future hold for Earth's ice? A group of British researchers seeks answers in the bowels of a glacier. |
High on Adventure June 2002 Camilla Hvalsoe |
Summit Day -- Mount Kilimanjaro Scaling Africa's highest peak... |
Outside November 2009 Will Palmer |
Best Winter Adventures Five of our favorite winter trips. |
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. |
Real Travel Adventures February 2005 Nell Raun-Linde |
Swiss Alpine Interlude After 2 days of gray skies and intermittent rain in Bern, Switzerland, this sunny day would be the perfect one to see the peaks of the Eiger, the Monch and the Jungfrau mountains. |
Outside September 2004 Stephanie Pearson |
Godzone Quest There's something about New Zealand, and it's not just the soaring mountains, the red-hot culture, or the world-class Kiwi wines. In search of what makes NZ's islands a heaven for travelers. |
Real Travel Adventures November 2006 Sheila O'Connor |
Chill Out at the Ice Hotel and Have an "Ice Stay" "Beautiful. And frigid". That's the comment left by one brave guest at Canada's famed Ice Hotel on the shores of beautiful Lac St.-Joseph, a mere 20 minutes west of Quebec. |
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. |
AskMen.com Salvatore Mann |
Top 10: Spring Skiing Destinations The snow is melting and the leaves are sprouting, but that doesn't mean the winter fun is over. For those wishing to catch some last thrills on the slopes before summer comes, spring skiing is for you. |
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. |
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. |
Smithsonian October 2006 Anne Bolen |
Life in the Field - Frozen in Time Glaciers in the Pacific Northwest have recorded hundreds of years of climate history, helping researchers plot how quickly the planet is warming. |
Real Travel Adventures March 2006 Linda Ballou |
The Good of Going to the Mountains The White Mountains of New Hampshire have over 600 miles of well-marked paths that seduce the hiker into shady glens through lacy fern forests and to alpine climbs pocked with turquoise glacier cirques. |
Inc. July 2007 Alison Stein Wellner |
Travel: When You Can't Stand the Heat If you really want to chill out on your summer vacation, skip the three S's (sand, surf, and sweltering temperatures) and head to one of these delightfully cool destinations instead. |
AskMen.com Ryan Murphy |
Top 10: Unofficial Wonders of the World Nearly everyone knows about the seven wonders of the ancient world. Here are 10 more awe-inspiring sites that are equally worthy of exultation -- and visitation. |
High on Adventure August 2006 Lee Juillerat |
Capitalizing on the outdoors Juneau is more than just a place to pass through while traveling the Inland Passage or making your way to Glacier Bay. It's also a place where residents, and travelers with insight, capitalize on the outdoors. |
Fast Company December 1999 Ron Lieber |
Consultants and Summitry - Into Thin Advice Consultant Debunking Unit |