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You Need a Sleeping Bag Liner, Even if You Never Go Camping
Sleeping bag liners have multiple uses for weary travelers, even those who never go camping. Here’s why you should carry one on every trip.
The Outside Guide to Simplified Living
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This Is the Skin-Care Regimen a Backcountry Caretaker Follows
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Tour de France Broadcaster Phil Liggett Doesn’t Always Get It Right. I Still Love Him.
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Should You Buy Gear from Brands That Don’t Align with Your Values?
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Meet the 4-Year-Old Who Has Climbed More Mountains than You
After spending her infant years ascending all of New Hampshire’s 4,000-foot peaks in a carrier, Lydia Pearson recently accomplished the challenge on her own two feet—summiting all 48 of them
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I Thought My Love for Climbing Died with My Husband. I Was Wrong.
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What You Can Learn from More than One Octopus
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A Race for a Record
Did a Dangerous New Mountaineering Trend Cause Four Deaths on Shishapangma?
Two American women and two Sherpa guides perished while racing for a record. The tragedy illuminates how the recent rush to climb the world’s highest peaks is driving climbers onto dangerous mountains like never before.
I. Four Dead
Around 10:30 a.m. on October 7, 2023, Elena Cebanova’s phone rang at her home in Affi, Italy. When the slim, blond mother of two picked up, she learned that her younger sister, 33-year-old Anna Gutu, had been caught in an avalanche in Tibet and was missing.
Elena didn’t know much about mountaineering. Her sister had dove headlong into the sport less than two years earlier. She did know that this was an important climb for Anna. If she summited the mountain, she might achieve her dream of becoming the first American woman to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.
Elena was sure that Anna was OK. Whenever the family worried about her climbing, Anna always told them that she was guided by professionals. Now these people would find her, Elena thought.
An hour and a half later, her phone rang again. The caller spoke English, and Elena, who spoke only Italian and Russian, couldn’t follow what he was saying. Her partner opened Google Translate. Using the app, they learned that Anna was dead.
Two hours later, around 8 a.m. Eastern time, a phone rang in a leafy Massachusetts neighborhood. Seventy-five-year-old Susan Rzucidlo picked up. Susan, her cousin said, I don’t know how to tell you this, but someone called saying that Gina died in an avalanche. I don’t know if it’s a prank.
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