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ext_script = "//player.ooyala.com/player.js?height=317&deepLinkEmbedCode=gycHlhMzqXtZ8oFXZTsgVYUFt9vsv93J&video_pcode=1jZG06vQqWlGOe2jr1WK6VaYFHtK&embedCode=gycHlhMzqXtZ8oFXZTsgVYUFt9vsv93J&width=563" After a jump from Cape Town’s Table Mountain this morning, Jeb Corliss crashed and broke both his legs while filming for HBO. The 35-year-old fell roughly 200 feet, releasing his emergency chute just after hitting the side of the mountain called Africa Face. Reports from South Africa…
Past and Future Collide on the Class V Rapids of the Philippines' Chico River
Jack Kerouac spent the summer of 1956 manning a fire tower on Washington's Desolation Peak, in the northern Cascades. He didn't do much writing there, apparently, despite being alone with pencil and paper. But he stayed for 63 days. The views were good.
Andean Adventure Rock-climbing Ecuadorean-style October 12, 1996 “Further down the Tumbaco road, all the way past Pifo, is another small area for climbing,” Rob Rachowiecki writes in his book Climbing and Hiking in Ecuador. “I mention it here,” he continues, “only to warn against making the effort,…
On a sunny day in 1953, a tall young New Zealander named Edmund Hillary became the first human to stand atop the world's highest mountain—and, thereafter, a paragon of grace and bonhomie for explorers who would follow.
Andean Adventure Between a rock and an orange August 13, 1997 A miner at Potosi Centuries ago, as legend tells, Huallpa was grazing his llamas on the high mountain slopes above his town. In the coming darkness he sought to gather his flock, but two had…
Week of March 13-19, 1997 Backpacking the Absaroka-Beartooth Canoeing down the Mackenzie River Rock-climbing options in New Mexico Boundary Waters canoeing for city slickers Taking it not-so-easy in Jamaica Rock-climbing options in New Mexico Question: I’m hoping to take a climbing/camping trip to…
