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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
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
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
December 2008
Matt Samet |
The Psychedelic First Tommy Caldwell needed a challenge, so he decided to hoist his clanking gear rack and free-climb one of Yosemite's hardest routes in 24 hours or less. |
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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. |
Outside
May 2010 |
The Best State Parks Follow our guide to America's wild and relatively untrampled state parks, national lakeshores, and recreation areas. |
High on Adventure
August 2000
Lee Juillerat |
Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain |
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... |
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. |
Adventure
Jun/Jul 2005
Jim Gorman |
The Sierra Skyway A guide to visiting Yosemite National Park and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. |
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. |
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
May 2004
James Vlahos |
The Glacial Gallery Montana's Glacier National Park is one of the world's premier showcases of glaciation, a land of deep valleys separated by spiny aretes, cirques that shelter turquoise tarns, and summits in every conceivable shape, from layer cake to Egyptian pyramid. |
Outside
September 2007
Nyberg et al. |
City Slicker Escape from New York (and nine other big cities) with these 40 fast adventures |
AskMen.com
Jasper Anson |
Top 10: National Parks With such a giant landscape to work with, the United States holds a multitude of national parks for local and international tourists to sample any time of the year. |
Outside
October 2009
Justin Nyberg |
Southwest Adventures: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado The last thing you expect to see next to 14,000-foot peaks is a 30-square-mile chunk of Sahara-like desert. The unlikely juxtaposition makes Great Sand Dunes National Park one of the most remarkable spots in the country. |
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. |
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 |
Real Travel Adventures
May 2006
Karyn Dawn White |
A Rush in the Canadian Wilds After three weeks of amazing adventures in the USA, only a week left to explore Canada was not simple feat. |
Outside
April 2010
Steven Rinella |
Go Big or Go Home Cruise ships and wildlife buses? The tourist staples miss the point of Alaska: It's the last real place to find an epic, crowd-free adventure on American soil. |
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
January 2008 |
Rock Climbing: Cedar Wright & Renan Ozturk American climbers Cedar Wright and Renan Ozturk combined two ambitious expeditions on two continents into a novel summerlong quest they dubbed Alaskastan '07. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Christie Aschwanden |
Joaquin Espinosa's Rock Climbing Adventures A scientists explains his attraction to rock climbing. |
Outside
August 2001
Michelle Pentz |
Lost Worlds Going Beyond the African Safari... |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2007
Bonnie & Bill Neely |
Alberta's Wonder Landscape Enjoy the multiple beautiful landscapes, people, mountains, rivers, National and Provencial Parks in Canada. |
High on Adventure
August 2001 |
Yosemite on Horseback Riding the high country in early autumn... |
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. |
High on Adventure
February 2003
Cahn et al. |
Hut-to-Hut Cross-Country Skiing Tag-A-Long Expeditions carefully developed a hut-to-hut ski route that allows you to play in the beautiful La Sal Mountains, with terrain perfect for both cross-country and telemark skiing. The undeveloped character of this mountain range gives you the ultimate in a backcountry ski adventure. |
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. |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2009
Annie Coburn |
High Lonesome Hut: The Out-of-the Ordinary Colorado If you are searching for that out-of-the ordinary adventure with family or friends, you can find it at High Lonesome Hut. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Megan Sever |
Glacier: Crown of the Continent Established as a national park in 1910, Glacier National Park's geologic and ecologic significance is internationally recognized. |
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. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Selby Cull |
Below Boston's Hills Above those hills is one of America's most revered historical cities, and below them are rocks that span more than half a billion years of Earth's history. |
Adventure
May 2006 |
Your Turn: Climbing Yosemite's Matthes Crest Traversing the knife-edge of Yosemite's Matthew Crest is like walking a tightrope, but once you reach the summit the view is phenomenal. |
Geotimes
March 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Joshua Tree National Park: A Geologic Oasis After a brown, dry winter, 2007 may not be the best year to spot wildflowers at Joshua Tree National Park. But don't let that stop you from making plans to head out to the park. The park's geology, while changing, is not quite as ephemeral or picky as those springtime flowers. |
Outside
November 2002
Mark Jenkins |
Unbroken Chain Every mountain adventurer knows those magical moments when it all flows -- and those wretched times when it won't |
