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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.
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 2002 Steven Threndyle	Rising Star Sean Isaac competes at the Ice World Cup Final, the first ice-climbing world-cup event to be held in North America...
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?
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 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.
DailyCandy April 24, 2006	Having a Ball There's no catch: the Ice Cream Ball simply churns out honest, humble ice cream.
Outside January 2006 Justin Nyberg	Ice Breaker Ines Papert not only won the women's division at Colorado's ice climbing festival last year, but beat the winner of the men's division by nearly three minutes.
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 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 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 September 2001 Marc Peruzzi	Between a Rock and Wet Place Exploring remote canyons is dangerous fun, but expert advice will get you through it alive. Marc Peruzzi learns the ropes, deep in the Arizona backcountry...
Outside April 2005	Mixed Climbing Skills Climbers have long used bolts and mechanical aids on impossibly blank sections of wall, and in the 1990s "mixed climbing" stars like Canmore, Alberta-based Will Gadd began crossing from ice to rock and back without changing equipment.
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Fast Company April 2001 Paul Cabana	The Iceman Melteth Just how tough is it to sell ice cubes to Eskimos? The Consultant Debunking Unit goes polar in search of the cold, hard truth...
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.
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.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Christie Aschwanden	Joaquin Espinosa's Rock Climbing Adventures A scientists explains his attraction to rock climbing.
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.
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Rachel Z. Arndt	Brian Parsonnet's "Ice Bear" Makes Air Conditioning More Energy Efficient Here comes the next generation of innovators revolutionizing batteries. Brian Parsonnet led the development of the Ice Bear, a device that is attached to commercial air conditioners and uses ice to store energy, making cooling more efficient and easing the burden on the electric grid.
Outside July 2007 Kristin Bjornsen	Alaska Cool Down Elias National Park and Preserve, and more and more visitors are trading in a summit bid to rappel down one of the frozen gorges in Southeast Alaska.
Outside July 2002	Risk Who's responsible when things go really wrong in the wild--when the raft flips or the belayer lets go of the rope? A disturbing look at wilderness liability and the crisis now brewing among lawyers, insurance companies, guides...and you.
Food Processing September 2012 Diane Toops	Hydrocolloids Make All the Difference in Ice Cream Formulations Gums such as tara, carrageenan, locust bean and cellulose are good choices for creating a smooth creamy ice cream texture with reduced ice crystal size.
Wired December 22, 2008 Ben Paynter	Mr. Freeze: How Julian Bayley turns Ice Cubes into Ice Castles Julian Bayley, co-founder of Ice Culture, has a way with ice. He cuts. He shapes. He sands and polishes to create extravagant frozen structures in luxe playgrounds.
Popular Mechanics February 2007 Jeff Wise	Building Canada's Epic Ice Road The truckers who haul 70-ton rigs hundreds of miles across Canada's frozen lakes aren't afraid of much except warm weather.
Seasoned Cooking August 2004 Ronda L. Carnicelli	Ultra-Easy Ice Cream Sandwiches Use what you've got on hand and your own tastes to put together ice cream sandwiches that will have your kids telling their grandkids about them ... hopefully while making their own ice cream sandwiches with them!
The Motley Fool November 3, 2006 Stephen Ellis	Reddy Ice, Ice, Baby Who knew selling ice could be so profitable? Investors, this cool company posted a very hot third quarter, with no sign of a meltdown in sight.
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 June 2008 Claire Napier Galofaro	Chris Sharma Chris Sharma is one of the world's strongest technical climbers but has lately favored travel over competition.
Seasoned Cooking September 2008 Carnicelli & Smith	One Last Hurrah Before autumn begins, let's enjoy ice cream again in a super easy ice cream pie!
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.
Science News July 3, 2004	Sky Lights This Web site offers beautifully illustrated explanations of spectacular phenomena ranging from rainbows to ice haloes.
Seasoned Cooking August 2007 Ronda L. Carnicelli	Easy Ice Cream Cake For the price of some ice cream sandwiches and a tub of whipped topping you can easily create this impressive ice cream cake.
Chemistry World January 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington	A question mark over cubic ice's existence Chemistry textbooks may have to be rewritten after scientists in the UK showed that an exotic type of ice crystal formed from supercooled water has probably been misidentified and might not exist.
High on Adventure February 2007 Larry Turner	Chateau Lake Louise: The Diamond in the Wilderness What makes this trek in Canada's "wilderness" interesting is the immense scenery and the chance to carry some of Canada's finest ice wines in your day pack.
Popular Mechanics May 15, 2009 Jennifer Bogo	Making the Coldest Ice Cream in the World--But is it Any Good? The perfect ice cream is a balancing act, as there are other factors besides freezing that affect the quality of ice cream.
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.
Real Travel Adventures September 2006 Michael A. Norton	Zen and the Art of Ice-Fishing Winter on the frozen lakes of Traverse City, Michigan is perfect for ice-fishing.
Outside May 2002 Mark Kroese	Queen of the Mountain In her new autobiography, Lynn Hill, the worlds's most accomplished female rock climber, looks back on three decades of big climbs, big falls, and bigger egos...
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.
Popular Mechanics March 15, 2010 Trevor Williams	Iceberg Forensics: Predicting the Planet's Future With Antarctic Ice Something new is happening with the ice streams and glaciers. They are getting thinner, and they are getting thinner because they are speeding up.
Scientific American July 2008 Peter Brown	NASA Satellites Watch Polar Ice Shelf Break into Crushed Ice Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.
High on Adventure August 1999 Lee Juillerat	Kauai's Shave Ice & Spectacular Sights Hawaii's Garden Isle serves up unparalleled flavors, canyons, and coastline
Outside June 2003	Virgin Ascents So you want to climb a mountain, but you've never done it before. No sweat -- there's a first time for everything. Even the world's greatest climbers were once beginners like you, gearing up with ropes, carabiners and crampons and heading for the hills for their first technical ascents.