Nikol Kovalchuk and the True Explorers Grand Slam
To most people, any one of the Explorers Grand Slam missions would be the goal of a lifetime. Nikol Kovalchuk is on pace to finish them all before her youngest child starts high school.
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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
By Rick Ridgeway. Excerpt published with the permission of Patagonia Books. In Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia, Oct. 26), the mountaineering legend looks back on 50…
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From the Archives: The Tower: Climbing and Controversy on Cerro Torre
At the wind-scoured southern tip of Argentina, between the vast ice cap and the rolling estepas of Patagonia, rises a 10,262-foot tower of ice and rock named Cerro Torre. Considered…
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The Fitz Traverse: A Film of Seven Summits
Long considered foolhardy to attempt, Argentina’s Fitz Traverse has stoked the imaginations of climbers around the world for decades. Tracing the iconic skyline of Cerro Fitz Roy and its six satellite peaks,…
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Sleeping on Summits
By Mike Lewis, ZEAL Optics. The journey began as all do – with an idea. An inconsequential, ethereal thought, a suggestion that gradually built momentum into a tangible entity with…
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The ML Interview: Ed Viesturs on Everest
By Ned Morgan. Ed Viesturs has summited the world’s highest mountain – seven times. In his new book The Mountain, he traces his time on Everest – which Tibetans call…
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