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Climbing Sherpas suffer the highest mortality rate on Mount Everest. We ran the numbers, and the results will shock you.
In Episode 2 of Smith’s Great Days, professional climber聽Jonathan Siegrist sends a new route just outside of Las Vegas. After reaching the top of this challenging 5.14c first ascent, Siegrist named the route “Spectrum.”聽 聽 聽 聽…
Escape is an inspirational story that aims to awaken our true desires and to open our hearts to what each of us finds truly meaningful in life. A short film from DHPro that explores the idea of escaping from everyday life. 聽…
World-class climber, skier and mountaineer Jimmy Chin聽has traveled the globe in search of adventure, but his home is in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, near Grand Teton National Park. In this video from the National Park Foundation, Jimmy scales Grand Teton and skis down, showing why he is one…
Legendary rock climber Alex Honnold has climbed some of the world’s toughest routes without a rope. Despite climbing all over the world, he still considers Yosemite National Park home to the best big wall routes out there. In this clip from the National Park Foundation, Honnold shares his…
In May 2014, American Joby Ogwyn will attempt the first wing suit flight off the summit of Mount Everest. The event, called EVEREST JUMP LIVE, will be broadcast live on the Discovery Channel during a two-hour long special that will follow Joby’s journey to the summit and his flight…
Finding your balance on a high-line is a daunting task. This short from Highliners Film聽explores the beauty behind high-lining in some of the most stunning locations on earth. 聽聽…
California guide Adrian Ballinger makes his play to become Everest's top dog with a climbing model that's fast, light鈥攁nd very expensive.
Why would you cross a canyon on a narrow piece of webbing if you’re afraid of heights? Get inside the mind of a slackliner in this聽short film about about the fear factor involved with highlining.聽…
Two years of preparation for 60 seconds of movement. Ian Dory spent two years planning and climbing the bouldering route Paint It Black, a V15 in Rocky Mountain National Park. Can he conquer the rock? A project from Mind Frame Cinema.聽…
Legends of the rock Stefan Glowacz and Chris Sharma team up to master a climbing route in the Majlis al Jinn cave in Oman. The route has never been attempted before and counts as the world鈥檚 longest roof climb with 13 pitches. Do they make it? A project from…
A look into the life of climber Kevin Jorgeson and his attempt to free the hardest unclimbed big wall route in the world, the Dawn Wall on Yosemite’s El Capitan, with Tommy Caldwell.聽…
"Raising our baby girl is our new Everest."
Okay, so he's been roped into a "media performance" or two, but fact is, Alex Honnold continues to bag some of the boldest climbs on earth.
In one of the boldest Himalayan climbs in history, Mountain Hardwear athlete Ueli Steck completed the first solo ascent of Annapurna's South Face in a record 28 hours.
The climb tells about the epic challenge of Luca Galimberti who climbed the Monte Rosa mountain on a cross-country sledge for paraplegic people, using his arms strenght only. Luca is affected by Adrenoleukodystrophy and by Addison’s disease and the peak he reached is Cresta Rossa, 3.660 meters high. A film…
Inside a mysterious, gruesome climbing death鈥攁nd an explosive relationship that sparked what looks very much like murder
On a recent trip to South Africa (the 29th country she鈥檚 climbed in), 21 year-old DiGiulian came across a route which had been laid out years ago but never actually climbed. This video shows the challenges she faced; she eventually completed the entire route — a first ascent — earning…
The latest tour from Reel Rock. Sender Films & Big UP Productions. See the review here.
Photographer Michael Muller shoots the Alex Honnold cover in Hollywood, CA for 国产吃瓜黑料’s Decmeber Issue.
Climbing's biggest name makes his bid for international stardom by risking death on live TV
Ultra Runner Dakota Jones speaks about his love of running.聽Recently he has been doing more traditional climbing, and he is pushing the limits to combine these two sports.
Peter Metcalf, CEO of Black Diamond, on climbing, keeping your composure, and the nature of pain
This 16-year-old champ talks about what it's like to put your life on the line
In an exclusive interview, a Sherpa involved in the incident speaks out on the now infamous scuffle with Western climbers
One of the worst massacres in mountaineering history happened this summer in Pakistan. Will it happen again?
For more than a century, Western climbers have hired Nepal鈥檚 Sherpas to do the most dangerous work on Mount Everest. It鈥檚 a lucrative way of life in a poor region, but no service industry in the world so frequently kills and maims its workers for the benefit of paying clients. The dead are often forgotten, and their families left with nothing but ghosts.
Young crushers today are sending grades that didn't exist 20 years ago. But can their growing bodies handle the strain?
The life of a Sherpa is relatively lucrative in Nepal, but no service industry in the world so frequently kills and maims its workers for the benefit of paying clients. As Grayson Schaffer reports, the dead are often forgotten, and their families left with nothing but ghosts.
In just six days in May, the British climber completed a trilogy that had never before been attempted: Everest, Lhotse, and Nuptse鈥攖hree of the world's highest mountains鈥攊n a single push.
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 premieres at Mountainfilm in Telluride this weekend, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld鈥檚 legendary first ascent of the formidable West Ridge. We check in with the filmmakers, David Morton and Jake Norton.
Already an Everest record-holder, the 29-year-old climbing great shares what it takes to reach the top
A final directive caps years of debate over whether climbing anchors should be allowed inside National Park wilderness. But questions still remain around just how the policy will be enacted鈥攁nd what impacts it will have on climbing and the environment.
A team of African-American climbers heads to Denali this June with a lofty goal鈥攖o inspire more diversity outside
Bolotov, who was attempting a new route on the Southwest Face, died Tuesday in an apparent fall. A veteran mountaineer pieces together what is known.
We met Aydin Irmak last year when he was attempting to summit Everest with his bike. This year, he surprised us by returning to the mountain, summiting early鈥攁nd finding himself in the middle of the brawl on Everest.
Tomorrow we are moving up on our summit 'rotation' to attempt the summit of Everest & Lhotse (around May 18-20). The weather is looking good, the routes up both summits are now in good shape & fixed. You can also check out my own blog with…
Today Sherpas from several teams are working on fixing the route from Camp 4 (the South Col) to the Balcony. Tomorrow they hope to complete the route from the Balcony to the Summit. Winds look reasonable the next few days so after the 10th I imagine some teams will be…
Today the Sherpa fixing team reached the summit of Everest! Fourteen Sherpas from 8 different teams worked together installing new anchors and fixed lines. 聽Two Sherpas from Alpine Ascents, Kami Rita and Fur Kancha Sherpa contributed to the work, summitted, and are now descending down to Camp 2 鈥…
Fourteen years after barely surviving a mountaineering accident in Alaska, Paradox Sports founder and amputee Malcolm Daly is making it his mission to bring hurt climbers back to the tribe
Although initially reported as the result of altitude sickness, the death of DaRita Sherpa on May 5 was likely the result of a cardiac event. We take a look at why Sherpas are less susceptible to altitude-related illness.
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Ralf Dujmovits took the iconic photo of a conga line of climbers on Everest in 2012, and he hoped the image would make the mountains safer. A year later, he reflects on what has changed鈥攁nd what hasn't.
How do you predict the weather at the top of the world? Ask a highly unconventional meteorologist.
APRIL 25I just got back to Everest Base Camp after spending 5 nights up on the mountain. On April 20, we climbed up through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp I.聽 We departed our base camp at 4 a.m. and arrived at Camp I around 10 a.m. and…
APRIL 26This morning I awoke at 7:20 a.m. to the rotors of the latest model Eurocopter B3 hovering above my tent as it prepared to land 50 yards away to resupply a neighboring camp. I thought to myself, this is getting a little surreal, as I walked from my…
Mountaineer Garrett Madison has summited Everest with 28 clients in the last four years and is one of the world's top expedition guides. He shares his first update of the Everest 2013 season from Base Camp.
Two American climbers started the Centro de Escalada Urbana with a vision: to give kids from one of Rio de Janeiro鈥檚 poorest neighborhoods a leg up by teaching them to climb the cliffs near their home. Before they were done, they would blaze new routes up Rio鈥檚 granite walls, weather the death of a friend, and see the social order of one of Brazil's biggest slums turned upside down.
They had only seen five percent of it when Rick and Liz Weber knew they had to buy the land and establish what would become the most prominent climbing property in the Eastern United States. But as the couple ages, they don't know how long they can keep footing the bills.
Indoor climbing could soon replace spin class as the urban professional鈥檚 sport of choice鈥攁nd that has marketers salivating
The profile on Team ABC Boulder of 11-year-old climbing sensation Brooke Raboutou鈥攚hich was last updated in December 2011鈥攍ists more than a few hard-to-grasp facts about the phenom. Raboutou first climbed at the age of one. She began climbing regularly at four or five years…
鈥淎s a professional climber I like to say that my gift in life is the ability to relentlessly beat my head against a wall. I live by the ethos that if you hit your head hard or long enough, it really feels good when you stop.鈥 鈥…
What things does a great climber keep in his gear room? Conrad Anker answers that question in the video embedded above, in which he offers Black Diamond a tour of his basement lair. There's plenty of new climbing equipment,…
Juneau climbers Ryan Johnson and Samuel Johnson will attempt Mount Hayes, Alaska. Photo: Glacier Fed/Flickr The Alpinist and their partners announced the winners of the 2013 Mugs Stump Awards today, offering up…
Yes, this video of climber Dean Potter walking a highline at Cathedral Peak as the sun sets and the moon rises is old. It originally appeared as part of “The Man Who Can Fly,” a National Geographic special. But the full clip…
Annapurna. Photo: BrewBooks/Flickr French mountaineer Maurice Herzog, who led the first documented summit of an 8,000-meter peak,…
A high-profile accident is just the latest reason that climbers need to rethink the tools they've been using
Everest. Photo: Daniel Prudek/Shutterstock On Thursday, climbing blogger Alan Arnette posted a new analysis of the dead on Mount Everest. “Around 225 climbers have died on Everest…
This year, Czech climber Adam Ondra established the world's hardest sport route in Norway and onsighted the Red River Gorge's most difficult lines on his first trip to the United States. He talked to 国产吃瓜黑料 about projecting 5.15d and pushing the limits of the sport.
The Drygalski Mountains. Photo: Berghaus.com The realities of an expedition to Antarctica, where temperatures fall to -50 degrees and the wind can reach speeds of up to 100 miles per hour, are harsh. At night, for example, explorers must pack all…
In 2003, climber Asa Firestone traveled to Rio de Janeiro to climb “Two Brothers,” twin peaks surrounded by favelas鈥攕hanty towns harboring many of the city’s poor. Many locals warned him against climbing in such a dangerous…
In May of 2009, Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson were killed by an avalanche while on a climbing expedition in China's Sichuan province. We have written before about the number of different ways people are remembering them. Boulder's 国产吃瓜黑料 Film Festival is…
The American Alpine Club is now accepting applications for the 2013 Copp-Dash Inspire Awards. The awards honor the late climbers Jonny Copp and Micah Dash, who were killed鈥攁long with filmmaker Wade Johnson鈥攊n May 2009 by an avalanche in China's Sichuan province. This year's…
It would be hard to dream up a better combo for an adventure movie that raises awareness about a water crisis than filmmaker Peter McBride and climber Jake Norton. McBride's film Chasing Water…
Mountains test your resilience. Cliffs and cold and striving for the summit push your physical and mental limits. Gravity and fear pull you down, while passion and determination push you higher. It is for these moments, these experiences, that the climber/mountaineer founders of聽American Mountain Co.
World's youngest ski patroller? Taylor Justice on the job at Aspen. Photo: Taylor Justice There are overachievers, and then there is Taylor Justice. The 12-year-old skier/climber/straight-A student started shredding double-black diamond chutes when she was eight. Three years later, she joined the…
Waiting out the storm. Photo: Lonnie Dupre Lonnie Dupre has attempted to climb Denali in January each of the last two years. Both times he hit bad weather. So he huddled inside…
When it comes to producing climbers, there's one college that stands above all the rest
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dfjn3YNZf0Y%3Frel%3D0 If Japanese climber Tomoko Ogawa looks like she's been practicing the problem in the video above for years, it's because, well, she has. Ogawa, 34, starting working Catharsis, a V14 in Shiobara, Japan, three years ago. At the time, no woman had ever climbed a boulder problem harder than…
When climbers Jarem Frye, Craig DeMartino, and Pete Davis met at the 2006 Extremity Games, an X Games-style event for amputee athletes, one of them proposed tackling a big wall…