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The Classics: Ice Climbing, NH
Loading ...Bayard Russell, Emilie Drinkwater and Sarah Garlick sink their axes into some Classic New Hampshire ice, including routes with as rich a history as Dracula, Pegasus and Dropzone.
How To Climb Aconcagua In A Half-Day
Loading ...This weekend, Chad Kellogg will start making way up Aconcagua for a speed attempt, aiming to run and climb from park entrance to top of the peak in ~12 hrs.
Adirondack Ice: Endangered Species
Loading ...Bayard Russell, Matt McCormick and Matt Horner answered the call of the wild sending an awesome line next to Gorillas in the Mist in New York’s Adirondack State Park.
How To Sharpen Ice Tools
Loading ...Whether you’re headed to Ouray Ice Fest for your first climb of the season this weekend or need some mid-season tuning, these sharpening tips from flamboyant ice climbing legend, Margo Talbot, will come in handy.
Ouray Ice Festival
Loading ...[ January 5, 2012; January 6, 2012; January 7, 2012; January 8, 2012; ] The Ouray Ice Festival takes over the park January 5th – 8th. A long weekend full of clinics, demos, a comp showdown with some of the best climbers in the field, good times and great brews with awesome folks. We’ll see you there! Swing by the OR booth for demos of gloves, gaiters, puffy jackets [...]
Kyrgyzstan to Pakistan: Solace By Cycle
Loading ...Looking for the comfort and peace solitude can bring, Kyle Dempster left for open land and big sky spending three months biking and climbing through Asia.
Inspired By Gord: A Bozeman Recap
Loading ...Kyle's new backyard training playground
Last week at the Bozeman Ice Festival a bunch of dirty, stinky, metal heads with alpine climbing addictions packed into the Outdoor Research rental house. Everyone was keen on climbing the sketchiest terrain available, not showering, giving praise to Ozzy, talking mullets, and drinking as much PBR as possible. Every computer [...]
The Bozeman Ice Festival
Loading ...Gordon on NW Passage, M10, Photo: Jason Thompson
The Bozeman Ice Festival is different from any other event I’ve ever been to. So much that it’s hard to put into words the impact it had on me. Soulful, majestic, full-hearted, committed, meaningful, driven, historical and futuristic…and sure, these words are all great and will do for [...]
Ultra-Alpinism: 50 Hour Push on Pangbuk Ri
Loading ...At 10 p.m. November 10th, 18 hours into their attempt at the first ascent of Nepal’s 6,625-meter Pangbuk Ri, Chad Kellogg and David Gottlieb faced a dead end. They had anticipated a long single push of ice, rock, snow and mixed climbing up the south face to get to the peak’s 21,735-foot summit. From the [...]
A Season In Antarctica
Loading ...Antarctica is remote – physically, mentally, and emotionally. The whole continent doesn’t even show up on most map projections of the world. I’m not going to Mt Vinson to climb – instead to guide a geology team with the United States Antarctic Program.
