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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8,000 Miles for 8,000 Smiles: The Stats Behind a Record-Setting Year for Tyler Lau
How Tyler Lau became the first person of color to complete the calendar-year Triple Crown: The hike, the timeline, the details, the athlete, the gear and the goal.
Meet Addie Bracy: Ultra's Upstart Signs with Nike
American Addie Bracy is an advocate for diversity, recently signed with Nike Trail Running and is making noise on the ultra scene. She's the pro trail runner who almost never was.
International Women's Day: You Do Not Need Facial Hair to be "Outdoorsy"
When you think of an "outdoorsy" person, what comes to mind? There is still a necessity to challenge stereotypes.
Adrenaline Addiction: Fallout
24 year-old Chase Reinford seizes a life of freedom and extreme stunts, while we all watch, white-knuckling our office chairs.
The Last Belay: Fred Beckey’s Final Climb
Hailed as one of the most prolific and pioneering climbers of all time, Fred Beckey almost became a myth in his own lifetime, with stories of his climbs often passed on by word of mouth.
Extreme Skier Kina Pickett Carves First Tracks in the Tech World
Obsessed over the process, Big Mountain Skier Kina Pickett launches a new content management platform to remove the chaos from the digital media pipeline.
Flow State: The Reason Why Alex Honnold and Steph Davis are not Adrenaline Junkies.
“When you’re pushing the limits of ultimate human performance, the choice is stark: it’s flow or die.”
Mountaineering Scene Mourns the Loss of Andy Nisbet and Steve Perry
The bodies of the highly experienced Scottish climbers were recovered on Wednesday following a fatal fall on Ben Hope in the Highlands.
Full Throttle on Siberia’s ‘Road of Bones’
In February, Lithuanian extreme motorcyclist Karolis Mieliauskas will embark on a 1,000-km odyssey to the coldest inhabited place on Earth.
Imagine; A Cleaner World with Rivian, & the End of Alex Honnold's #VanLife
With Rivian’s new electric adventure vehicles, so came Alex Honnold’s announcement of his partnership with the company and perhaps an end to his #VanLife, for the benefit of a better world.
Mega Swell: Big Wave Windsurfing at JAWS.
With conditions too radical and dangerous for competition, the world’s top windsurfers sail down the biggest waves ever at Jaws.
Steph Davis: Flow, Focus, and Feeling in Control
An insight into free solo climber and BASE jumper, Steph Davis’s reasoning behind what she does, and why she does it.