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French alpinist Louis Lachenal died in a crevasse in the Alps 69 years ago today. Lachenal was one of the first two mountaineers in history to summit an 8,000m peak - Annapurna I in 1950. Fourteen ...

Will Moss just became the fourth person ever to free climb The Nose in a day. Moss, 20, says Katy Perry and athletic tape ...

At 4,392m, Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. Situated just 95km southeast of Seattle, it has long beckoned climbers and adventurers. Today, we’ll look ...

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Of the 514 people who summited Annapurna I by the end of 2024, only six did so in winter. Twenty-three expeditions have tried to ascend Annapurna I in the coldest season, including 19 without bottled ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. Here we delve deeper into his many remarkable achievements, highlighting his pivotal climbs and ...

In the 1997 rock climbing film Masters of Stone IV, Dan Osman scrambles, sans ropes, 400 feet up the sheer cliff face of Lover’s Leap in just 4 minutes and 25 seconds. Osman makes the speed free-solo ...

The collection of boulders and granite walls first climbed by members of the Alpenbock Club in Little Cottonwood Canyon 60 years ago has made history as a piece of history. The Alpenbock Loop, a ...

Ted Wilson stops at a clearing along a shady path near the base of Little Cottonwood Canyon. Above him, far over the trees, rise shards of bone white rock. Snaking through some of them are thin cracks ...