Oct 23 2019
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El Capitan was first climbed by Warren Harding, Wayne Merry, and George Whitmore in 1958. They climbed The Nose…
Oct 21 2019
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Oct 18 2019
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Donald Trump is confident that the wall along the southern border—which was the central promise of his presidential…
Jul 17 2019
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Last Friday, Alexandria Incontro from Omaha, Nebraska, very nearly free-soloed Mt. Rushmore, making it 15 feet from…
Jun 14 2019
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When I was 10 years old, my most impressive athletic feat was playing basketball during recess with the bottoms of…
Jun 13 2019
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According to Indian climbers Vikas Rana, Shobha Banwala, and Ankush Kasana, the trio summited Mt. Everest on May 26…
Jun 4 2019
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Every night during Ramadan, about a dozen boys meet up in a parking lot that sits near…
Apr 22 2019
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After a four-day search, Parks Canada announced Sunday that they had recovered the bodies of climbers Jess…
Oct 10 2018
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Over the first 12,000 or so years after Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan wall was scoured out by glaciers, no…
Jul 25 2018
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“This was the original price,” Serap Jangbu Sherpa assured them as he pulled down a waterproof jacket from the…
Jul 24 2018
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K2 is perhaps the most dangerous mountain in the world. One in every four people who makes an attempt to summit it…
Jul 16 2018
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Oregon Army National Guard personnel in this big-ass helicopter extracted a wayward climber and the six rescuers…
May 30 2018
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This morning, Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell ascended El Capitan’s most famous route, the Nose, in 2 hours, 10…
May 17 2018
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Naturally, Alex Honnold is in Yosemite right now. This should not surprise you, because if non-climbers know…
Apr 18 2018
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Last October, Brad Gobright and Jim Reynolds broke Alex Honnold’s speed record on El Capitan’s most iconic route, The Nose, ascending the once-impossible route in 2:19:44. Tristan Greszko just released time-lapse footage of the ascent, and it owns.
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Mar 15 2018
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Famed climbers Marc-Andre Leclerc and Ryan Johnson are presumed dead nine days after disappearing in Alaska’s…
Mar 7 2018
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Here we have Austrian climber Hansjörg Auer stuck on a face. By his own account, he lost his route with “no option…
Jan 30 2018
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On Sunday, French mountain climber Elisabeth Revol was rescued by a team of Polish climbers on the slopes of a…
Jan 29 2018
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Antarctica is mostly known as a snowy wasteland, an island at the bottom of the world with nothing but ice and the…