Piolets d'Or Announces the "Significant Ascents" of 2023
This list of 68 climbs is effectively a "long list" used to select nominees of the prestigious alpine award.
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For Mike Horn, adventure is not an activity or a single expedition. “It’s a lifestyle”, he told me when I spent a few days with him last year driving across 'the land that God made in anger'.
This may be a desert, but we've spent nearly every day in water. Oman may be a surprising choice for adventures. But its tropical seas, jebels and wadis are perfect outdoor playgrounds for everything from rock climbing and canyoning to sailing and scuba diving.
Behind the wheel of Mercedes-Benz’s legendary all-wheel-drive off-road expedition trucks in Germany’s Black Forest, PLUS a fireside chat
“The condition of man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence.” Kalyana to Onesicritus, 327 BC
"The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks." Mike Horn
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” Henry David Thoreau
The highlands of Central India were once wild and unexplored places, forested hills and gorges populated by unknown beasts and ruled by the Gond tribes. Today, one of India's best national parks conserves the remainder of this once-pristine wilderness.
"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise"
The Petzl Sirocco is a helmet so light you won’t even notice it’s on your head. Most people
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