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
What It’s Like to Climb a Mountain for the First Time
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Petra Winkes lives in a small town in Holland—far from the mountains that she always dreamed of climbing. In June of 2015, she joined a Gore-Tex Experience Tour (an ongoing project that brings together young outdoor enthusiasts with seasoned professionals) and set off to summit the Balmhorn, a large peak in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. This short film from ATLAS follows Winkes as she attempts to climb a mountain for the first time.