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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 September 2006	What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount Everest.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
High on Adventure February 2004	Everest Base Camp Trek Experiencing Nepal's mountains, villages, and culture
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 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 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 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 September 2004 David Roberts	K2 at 50: The Bitter Legacy This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of K2. But simmering beneath the official glory is a legacy of backstabbing and betrayal that would ultimately drive one climber to change the course of mountaineering history forever.
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.
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 May 2003 Rob Buchanan	Slave to the Quest Ten years ago, extreme snowboarder Stephen Koch cooked up a media-savvy plan to become the first to climb and ride down the Seven Summits. Now there's only one mountain left to conquer: Everest. And for his grand finale, Koch is determined to fling himself down the most dangerous descent possible.
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 September 2006 Brad Wetzler	Something Happened Sending Jon Krakauer to Everest was my idea. After the news broke, I spent the better part of a day wondering if I'd put him in a frozen grave.
Outside April 2003 Jenny Dubin	Tigers of the Snow Three Generations of Great Climbing Sherpas
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 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.
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Ken Kamler	Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge.
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 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 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 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 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 August 2003	Base Camp Breakdown Running the numbers on the world's tallest mountain
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 December 2005 Conrad Anker	Improving the Odds for Sherpas This all-star pantheon created the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) to teach Sherpas more about avalanche forecasting and crevasse rescue.
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 August 2000 Lee Juillerat	Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain
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 May 2003 Jenny Dubin	Lucky 13 Meet Apa Sherpa, who will attempt to break his own record of 12 Everest summits this month
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.
High on Adventure June 2002 Camilla Hvalsoe	Summit Day -- Mount Kilimanjaro Scaling Africa's highest peak...
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 September 2006 Philip D. Armour	Will Pemba Sherpa Be On the Quiz? You need to learn your lesson! So listen up to Mike Roberto, a fast-talking consultant who uses the '96 saga as a teaching tool for students, lawyers, and businessmen.
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...
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 September 2007 Nick Heil	Elevated Can Viagra really improve high-altitude performance?
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.
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.
Real Travel Adventures September 2006 Julie Thompson	Trading Home Comforts For Dreamy Mountains in Nepal Nepal is home to the breathtaking Himalayan mountain range which contains eight of the world s ten highest peaks including Mt Everest, not to mention spectacular scenery and wildlife.
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.