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Sidecountry Sessions
Loading ...“The opportunity to explore the accessible powder stashes with the most passionate locals is the mission. Getting it the best we can is our objective.” This winter, Neil Provo, Molly Baker, and Zack Giffin are subscribing to the gypsy life and taking off on a two-month tiny house road trip in celebration of a passion-driven, low impact, ski bum lifestyle while searching for fresh talent to add to the OR athlete roster. Follow along, here on VertiCulture.
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.
Sidecountry Sessions: Whitewater
Loading ...Whitewater is a mythical place for an American skier. Not too distant, but yet so far out of reach. How does an American stay in Canada, land of epic powder for the winter? Or even a lifetime?
Sidecountry Sessions: Silverton
Loading ...Silverton, Colorado is exactly the kind of place you want to spend the Yuletide season. Especially if you are a group of five ski bums living within 112 square feet—no shower and ski gear avalanching from every nook of space.
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.
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 [...]
Karakoram Expedition, Part III
Loading ...We checked the climbing potential near Saser Kangri II, the world’s 2nd highest unclimbed peak, called “Baby Ruth” for its similarity to Alaska’s Ruth Gorge. Up and over a high col to the South Shukpa glacier we find stunning unclimbed peaks in every direction.
Expedition: Pangbuk Ri
Loading ...In preparation for a Spring 2012 attempt to set a new speed record on Everest, Chad has a grueling training plan. First up? Attempting to summit Nepal’s last significant unclimbed 6,500m peak, Pangbuk Ri, with David Gottleib.
Faces at Fourteen Thousand: Portraits from Denali
Loading ...In November, 2010 a friend asked me to join his month-long NPS patrol on Denali. I don’t like sitting in a tent if I’m not sleeping and I hate being cold. I said yes, of course… Mountaineering is a weird sport, both thrilling and ridiculous. We spent 25 days walking and waiting to get to a summit that we stood on for three minutes. Then we walked back down. That sort of elected suffering incorporates patience, determination, ego, grit, money, time, gear, self-reliance, self-absorption, an anti-stir-crazy syrum (in our case, Hearts and Bananagrams). Along the way I tried to meet the people who do this sport. From 14 Camp, meet some mountaineering people…
