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Darkwoods Conservation Area: Why We Need It More Than Ever

An update on B.C.’s Darkwoods, Canada’s largest privately-owned wilderness tract. words :: Ned Morgan // photo :: David Moskowitz. As the global population expands, humans need nature as a respite…

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Transcendental: Kiting and Kayaking Across Greenland

During an audacious coast-to-coast expedition in Greenland, risk and reward play tug-of-war across a line of acceptability drawn in ice and water. words :: Colin Field // photos :: Erik…

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Holy Grail: The First SUP Descent of the Mountain River

It’s July 1st, the start of our two-week voyage down the famed Mountain River in the Northwest Territories. We’re eating bacon and pancakes drenched in maple syrup, listening to The…

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Polish Syndrome: Unsung Alpinists Conquer the Himalaya

As early as the 19th century, Polish climbers had achieved great success on the major peaks of Europe. But only much later, in the 1980s, would this country’s fearless alpinists…

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Seven Colour Mountain: High-alpine Bike Adventure Through the Andes

Adventure collides with tourism on a high-alpine bike ride through the Andes. High in an isolated corner of the Peruvian Andes, we stood slack-jawed atop a plateau amidst a throng of…

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One Shot with Jia Condon

Squamish, B.C.-based adventurer and mountain guide Jia Condon gets around. Whether sailing aboard the yacht Northanger to climb in Greenland and Antarctica, working as a head guide at hallowed Bella…

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Cold Snap: Josh Hydeman Frames The Hazardous, Mutable World Of Glacier Caves

Glaciers don’t rush. Or at least they didn’t used to. During the last Ice Age, glaciers shaped our landscape while crawling, on average, but a few centimetres a day. Today,…

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When Stone Speaks: In the History of Big-wall Climbing, Even Geology has Something to Say

“Every rock has a story,” my kid announces suddenly. He’s three. He speaks mostly gibberish. But the poet Anis Mojgani nailed it when he said that three-year-old gibberish is actually…

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The Parks Paradox: Should National Parks Promote Tourism, or Preserve Wilderness?

words :: Ned Morgan. One day in 1883, three guys smelled Canada’s first national park. The Canadian Pacific Railway workers stumbled upon a malodorous thermal spring while prospecting on the…

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Norge: A Postcard From Norway’s Wild West Coast

A postcard from Norway’s wild west coast, where you’ll find long fjords, big snow, small ski areas, few people, and plenty of tradition. Wielding an engraved silver ladle, Captain Charles…

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Keeping the Peace: The Site C Dam May Become B.C.’s Most Costly Environmental Battle

Pitting farmers and food security against industry jobs, heritage against so-called clean energy, the proposed Site C dam may become British Columbia’s most costly environmental battle. As day breaks…

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Mountain Life Annual 2016/17 Available Now

Support independent, award-winning media—subscribe today and receive this issue hot off the press. Print Edition Subscribe Digital Edition Digital Edition Celebrated photographer Cristina Mittermeier circles the planet holding up a…

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless River

When it comes to the global water crisis, aqua-rich Canada displays peculiar amnesia. A cure presents itself when a diversity of interests unites to help the Ottawa River recall aspects…

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Bitten: Heading Deep into the Beauty and Squalor of Remote Africa to Aid in the Fight Against Malaria

At 5:30 a.m. we’re jolted from an ugly cement-floor sleep. Looking outside, I see a boy feverishly banging away at a rusted truck hub hung from a tree branch. It’s…

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The Monk, the Jeep and the Mountain: A Georgian Ski Odyssey

Altitude explains the headache as I slide off a lift on the 3,000-metre summit of the Georgian ski resort of Gudauri. Seeking aspirin, I wander into a tiny ski patrol…

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An Historic Kayak Mission Through the Subarctic Heart of Torngat Mountain National Park

With over 52 Class V and VI whitewater first descents together in 32 countries, American kayakers Ben Stookesberry and Chris Korbulic don’t toss words like ‘epic’ or ‘remote’ around lightly.…

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Finding Freedom in the Forbidden Kingdom: A Himalayan Bike-packing Escape

It was early July, 2015, when after almost three years of on-again, off-again turmoil, the girl of my dreams walked out the door and out of my life. I was…

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Behind the Heart of the Himalaya

The Himalayan peoples have long captured the hearts of photojournalist adventurers Pat and Baiba Morrow. Over three decades of excursions and expeditions to the region, they have welcomed these foreigners…

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129 Banff Ave: A Search For Canada’s Freeride Roots Leads to Monod Sports

It’s the same home that Tatum Monod grew up in. And though a hint of what that might have been like resides in being a target for much of Peter’s…

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Down the Rabbit Hole: One Photographer’s Unexpected Journey to the Centre of the Earth

He leans back and sips his beer with what seems self-satisfaction. He knows how crazy it sounds but that’s the point: a story that admixes the thrills, fears and abiding…

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Darkwoods Conservation Area: Why We Need It More Than Ever

Transcendental: Kiting and Kayaking Across Greenland

Holy Grail: The First SUP Descent of the Mountain River

Polish Syndrome: Unsung Alpinists Conquer the Himalaya

Seven Colour Mountain: High-alpine Bike Adventure Through the Andes

One Shot with Jia Condon

Cold Snap: Josh Hydeman Frames The Hazardous, Mutable World Of Glacier Caves

When Stone Speaks: In the History of Big-wall Climbing, Even Geology has Something to Say

The Parks Paradox: Should National Parks Promote Tourism, or Preserve Wilderness?

Norge: A Postcard From Norway’s Wild West Coast

Keeping the Peace: The Site C Dam May Become B.C.’s Most Costly Environmental Battle

Mountain Life Annual 2016/17 Available Now

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless River

Bitten: Heading Deep into the Beauty and Squalor of Remote Africa to Aid in the Fight Against Malaria

The Monk, the Jeep and the Mountain: A Georgian Ski Odyssey

An Historic Kayak Mission Through the Subarctic Heart of Torngat Mountain National Park

Finding Freedom in the Forbidden Kingdom: A Himalayan Bike-packing Escape

Behind the Heart of the Himalaya

129 Banff Ave: A Search For Canada’s Freeride Roots Leads to Monod Sports

Down the Rabbit Hole: One Photographer’s Unexpected Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Mind Over Mountain: An Intimate Account of the Bugs-to-Rogers Traverse

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Before They Fall: Behind the Fight to Save B.C.’s Old-Growth Forests

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