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Cold … Read the resthas been making the rounds at film festivals across the globe and took the grand prize at the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival this year. Climber, photographer and filmmaker Cory Richards took a few minutes to tell me about his life now making movies on the highest mountains in

For most people, climbing a mountain as challenging as Everest is an impossible feat. For others, it is a worthwhile challenge–one that can be potentially deadly for even the most skilled climbers. But for Nepalese climber Sudarshan Gautam, summitting Mount Everest will prove not only to be the biggest challenge… Read the rest

Watch and be confused as scientist Jem Stansfield climbs a 30ft wall using suction power from two vacuum cleaners he purchased at a popular UK grocery store chain. The BBC likens him to Peter Parker of spider man fame, but sporting gigantic sucker pads on his hands and wearing a… Read the rest

If pop culture has taught us anything, it’s that high school seniors are worried about two things: where they’re going to go to college and whether or not they will still be a virgin by the time they get there. But seventeen-year-old Johnny Collinson has spent his high school years… Read the rest

A Colorado man plummeted nearly 100 feet Tuesday while ice climbing The Fang, a gigantic frozen waterfall in Vail, Colorado.
Vail’s iconic icy tooth forms only on extremely cold winters. It can reach up to 120 ft high and has been known to have a base measuring 25 ft wide.… Read the rest

Sean Moore, a 44 year-old British climber not only survived two frozen nights on Mulhacen Peak in the Sierra Nevada of Spain, but he also managed to hobble the 11,423 feet down with a broken leg.
After failing to return from his solo mission to master the highest peak in… Read the rest

In 2008 seventy-six-year-old Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the peak of Mount Everest, making him the oldest person to ever climb the 29,028 foot mountain all the way to the top. But when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out he saw that the title had been… Read the rest