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Alaska State Troopers called off a six-day search after finding the climbers' ropes on the Mendenhall Tower
This month, Red Bull sponsored a team of the world's best mountaineers to ski across the Alps in less than 41 days
The climber's posthumously published autobiography gives an intimate look at a mountain legend and takes on new meaning after his death
She was a pioneer for women in the industry
High-altitude alpinist Masha Gordon says it's time women claimed more peaks, and she has a plan to make it happen
The indie French brand reissues its classic aviator-shaped mountaineering glasses
Generations of mountaineers stopped at the small home in Pangboche for an audience with the humble, loving Buddhist
Generations of climbers, journalists, and scholars relied on her reporting from the foot of the world's 8,000-meter peaks
A new study says yes, and scientists are trying to find out why
During 40 years of adventure, hard-charging writer and climber Mark Jenkins has asked a lot of his wife and kids. After his fourth attempt on a dicey Chinese peak, he examines the risks and rewards of a risk-defying career.
Alex Txikon attempts an off-season climb of the world's highest peak
A close look at the food and tech that has allowed humankind to climb higher, faster
Wouldn’t you like to get away? To a place where you can be pampered and just relax? Of course you wouldn’t.
After years of controversy, Nepal's Supreme Court has ruled that Pemba Dorje Sherpa's climb was unverifiable, returning the record to its previous holder
The Himalayan Database has long been considered the place to find stats about climbs on the region's big peaks. Now, for the first time, that data will be free to the public.
Sure, Joe Grant may be known as "the runner guy", but to the folks who know him best, there's something far deeper motivating him than just running.
The accomplished alpinist Lydia Bradey looks back at her life, 31 years after making the decision to get sterilized
The well-known mountain guide breaks down his 10 essentials
A few months before Junko Tabei died, she looked back on her summit of Everest, and what drove her to keep climbing
A team of some of the top mountaineers attempt the first ski descent of the world's fifth-highest peak.
Gleich, a professional ski mountaineer, spends a lot of time on the road. Here's the gear she always brings along.
Everything you need to scramble up your local alpine summit
No one knew if it could be done. But when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed Mount Everest without oxygen in 1978, they smashed one of the last barriers of human performance. Almost 40 years later, both legends talk about their first ascent by “fair means”—and the long-running feud that followed.
There were many stories that were more fun to cook up and publish, but nothing quite compares with the force and moral clarity of Jon Krakauer’s account of the 1996 tragedies on Mount Everest
Seven hikers have died on 14ers since May, an unusual string of fatalities that has Aspen officials wondering what measures they're obligated to put in place to keep people safe in the mountains
A driven, patient, and injured Vanessa O’Brien becomes the oldest woman—and first American one—to summit the Savage Mountain
Andrew “Bob” Harris recently became the first person with Down syndrome to climb the Grand Teton
The Ptarmigan Traverse in Washington State’s North Cascades has had the word “classic” pinned to it nearly from the time it was pioneered in 1938. You don’t get much more high-n-wild in the Lower 48 than on this 35-mile-plus mountaineering trip, which starts in North Cascades National Park and immediately dives south into the Glacier Peak Wilderness.
The story of how a confectionary mishap helped Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the world's most famous summit
And the very important lessons we can learn from them
The teenage phenom on reaching the summit and knowing when to give up
When professional mountaineers design adventure apparel, good things follow
Patrick Sweeney is on a mission, to ride the seven summits on a bicycle.
On June 14 at 3 a.m., Katie Bono crawled into basecamp on Alaska’s Mount Denali, frostbitten and exhausted. Bono had left the same camp, located at 7,200 feet, at 6 a.m. the previous morning, summited the 20,310-foot peak (North America’s highest) in minus 40 degree temperatures at 8:46 p.m., then headed back down.
Josh Jespersen took down Colorado’s 14ers in record time—on a splitboard
Ascending Everest may be easier now that one of the most difficult features en route to the summit has crumbled, veteran mountaineers say.
He made it from advanced base camp to the summit in 17 hours
The longtime guide with Alpine Ascents summited for the 21st time on May 27, tying Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi for the most summits on the world's highest mountain
The most expensive, complex, and risky recover mission in the mountain's history is about to get underway—and that's a mistake
Mountaineers and Nepalese officials can’t seem to agree about whether the Hillary Step—a forbidding obstacle on the final leg to the summit—still exists
The world’s tallest mountain has claimed 6 lives this season
The 29-year-old Spaniard continues breaking speed records on the world’s highest mountains
Here's the kit one of the country's most ambitious FKT chasers uses when he heads out into the backcountry
The godfather of alpinism shares his thoughts on his fallen comrade, taking risks on mountains, and how his perspective has changed with age
The famed climber, who was known for his speed ascents, fell on Sunday, April 30, while preparing for a new route on Everest
In 1978, a historic expedition put the first women—and first Americans, period—on the summit of Annapurna, the world’s tenth-highest peak. Despite their triumph, the deaths of two climbers stirred controversy. In an oral history weaving together the perspectives of key team members, Sherpa high-altitude staff, admirers, and critics, Katie Ives discovers that debate still lingers—as does the expedition’s power to inspire.
t the cover shoot for the May issue of Outside, we asked 10 of the most influential women in the outdoor world a handful of questions about life, success, and happiness.
The spring Everest season is shaping up to be an exciting one: Ueli Steck is returning to complete an epic traverse; Kilian Jornet wants a speed record; and the mountain will be packed with climbers who didn't get to attempt the summit in 2014 and 2015.
The performance head scarf will be worn by Muslim athletes around the world, but it's also an essential piece of gear for one mountaineer
Myles Osborne was poised to summit Mount Everest when a flapping of fabric caught his eye. He thought it was a tent—then it spoke.
You don't have to be a seasoned mountaineer to bag any of these peaks, especially if you hire the right guide
How do you make climbing the world’s toughest mountain harder? Do it in the off-season.
Sunny Stroeer got sick and still set the speed record on Aconcagua. We sat down with the ex weekend warrior to talk training, coffee, and the all-women team that tackled the highest mountain in South America.
Fine dining on Everest? Only $1,050 per person.
Need sunglasses for climbing, mountaineering, or traveling through snow and ice? We tested three pairs across three continents and two hemispheres to find out how they stack up.
A plan for a drive-up climbing center on the north side of the mountain also includes the mainstays of a modern resort: lodging, restaurants, and a museum. Is this the future of the world's highest peak?
How to start from scratch and expand your horizons
A new study looks at whether stories about PEDs in the mountains have any truth to them
Six months, two trips to Thailand, and flirtations with madness have produced possibly the most forgettable fork ever
She’s not as famous as many other climbers, but her story is one of the most inspiring in the sport
David Roberts, a major figure in modern adventure literature, has explored risk, death, and loss for more than 50 years. Now he’s fighting cancer while producing new writing—including a series of reflections on his disease—that friends and colleagues believe is his best work yet.
Fred Beckey all but invented the sport of climbing with daring first ascents of peaks once thought unclimbable. At 93, his brain might be the greatest repository of information about American mountaineering in existence.
With nothing more than his bike, running shoes, and small amount of gear, Joe Grant managed to climb every fourteener in Colorado in record time. Here’s how he pulled it off.
Track’s most outspoken runner sets his sights on the mountains
Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington plan to climb the world’s sixth tallest mountain in record time. If they're successful, it could launch a whole new type of commercial mountaineering.
A pair from Utah trying to complete the first ascent of a steep face in the Karakoram mountain range were caught in a snowstorm last month and haven't been seen since
The 42-year-old mountaineer and mother of two just claimed the women’s speed record for the Explorer’s Grand Slam. How did she pull it off?
The first American woman to summit Everest without oxygen canisters and make it back down alive explains why she snuck off to the mountain without alerting her sponsors—or even her parents
Surviving the world’s tallest mountain takes a lifetime, even if you come down unharmed. It leaves an indelible mark on your soul that one can only cope with.
Climbing rangers In Yosemite, Denali, and Grand Teton are helping Sherpas become better guides
Shareable fitness data has been instrumental to the success of Adrian Ballinger and Corey Richards’s push up Everest. Will it change how the mountain is climbed?
In her sixth ascent of the world's tallest peak, 32-year-old Melissa Arnot earned one of the few prizes left on the mountain
Alpinst Emily Ward was determined to be a better climber than before her cancer diagnosis
Nine Sherpa guides setting rope lines on the upper part of the mountain have become the first of the season to reach the top of the world's highest peak
Lhakpa Sherpa has climbed Everest more than any other woman—and now she's on the mountain trying for her seventh summit.