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February 2, 2006 -- Back in February 1955, when I was just 14, I snowshoed with Professor John A. Williams, "Alpine Fred" Torrey, and a group of Explorer...
July 1, 2007 -- A group of invitees small-talked about the risks involved in scaling it: "... a person could get killed ...," "... acrophobia since I...
February 10, 2008 -- OGDEN -- It is cruel irony that the man who once solo-climbed a 40-story pillar of ice and became a legend and a Sports Illustrated cover boy with...
November 6, 2008 -- The weather on the summit of Alaska's 20,320-foot Mount McKinley was so bad when Conrad Lapp neared the top that wind had scoured away the snow,...
October 8, 2008 -- Climbers cheat death as frozen waterfall plunges to the valley floor - narrowly missing them. By Jerome Taylor For experienced climbers such as...
July 1, 2003 -- Outside magazine recently auctioned off a couple of items on eBay: a crampon and a rabbit-fur pelt that Jon Krakauer carried up Mt. Everest. At...
February 24, 2008 -- IT'S ONLY BEEN 10 days now since he stood on top of the western hemisphere and just four days since he returned from Argentina, so we're going to...
March 1, 2008 -- We hear so much about peak performance but how do we get our people there? Where do they go on the way to the peak? The foothills, base camp then the...
April 1, 2006 -- For years, I'd begged my mountain-climbing parents to take me with them. At nine years old, I was about to attempt my first mountain. Mt. Taranaki,...
March 22, 2007 -- Ice Climbers December and the icicles steepen on the cliffs. Some are slick, silver knives, aimed and precarious, others carved white and...