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

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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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Three Questions with Martijn Doolaard

On April 16, 2015, Dutch graphic designer/filmmaker Martijn Doolaard embarked on a yearlong bike ride that covered 17,000 kilometres through 18 countries from Holland to Singapore. Departing without fanfare, he…

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After the Gold Rush: Climbing as Tensions Rise in Southeast Venezuela

As modern times descend on Venezuela’s Pemon people, a team of altruistic climbers ascends one of the legendary faces in their midst—and learns how one can’t forestall the other. Through…

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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. Words :: Leslie Anthony // Photos :: Mattias…

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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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Out of Time: Is it Twilight for the Kingdom of Zanskar?

Bare-legged, I’d shuffled through the slushy water flowing over the ice surface like a zombie, little but sheer will telling my feet where to go. Anything below the knees had…

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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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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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Requiem For a Future North

For several years I have made regular trips to Canada’s north, spending months at a time above the 60th parallel—the invisible border where the land changes from boreal forest to…

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Mountain Life launches 2014-15 ANNUAL

When we set out to conquer the world, a key piece of the puzzle was to launch a top-shelf national publication for our loyal, über-supportive readers to dive into. Our…

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

Three Questions with Martijn Doolaard

After the Gold Rush: Climbing as Tensions Rise in Southeast Venezuela

Norge: A Postcard From Norway’s Wild West Coast

Mountain Life Annual 2016/17 Available Now

Out of Time: Is it Twilight for the Kingdom of Zanskar?

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

Behind the Heart of the Himalaya

Requiem For a Future North

Mountain Life launches 2014-15 ANNUAL

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