Mountaineering

An Outside Conversation with ‘In the Shadow of the Mountain’ Author Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

‘Step by Step’ Captures the Mindset of a Game-Changing Athlete

LGBTQ+ Mountaineers Summit Mount Hood

If We Want to Protect the Places We Love, We Must Vote

An Adaptive Athlete and Her Home Mountain

When Alpinists Go Rogue

Summiting K2 Without Supplemental Oxygen

Erin Parisi’s Historic Seven Summits Bid

Ski-Mountaineering the Peaks of B.C.

2 Veterans, 13 Days, and 1 Memorable Trip

How to Ski Hard While Staying Green

Kids + Time Outside = Magic

An All-Arab Female Ascent of Everest

‘Voices of Fear’

‘Troll Wall’

‘The Fifty’ with Cody Townsend

How Mountaineering Makes You Reprioritize

David Lama’s First Ascent of Lunag Ri

A Splitboarding Quest in Bolivia

Six North Face Climbers in Antarctica
Riding Mount Elbrus with an 11-Year-Old
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Adventurer Patrick Sweeney is on a mission: ride down the seven summits on a mountain bike. Sweeney already checked Everest Base Camp and Kilimanjaro off his list, and last summer he set his sights on Russia's Mount Elbrus. This wasn't a solo venture, though. Sweeney set out for Europe's highest peak with his 11-year-old son, P.J. Watch to see find out what happened when the father-son duo took on Russia's most formidable climb.