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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
Phenomenal ice climber Will Gadd appears to have gotten a bit tired of the traditional frozen waterfalls and ice covered mountains. Near the eastern Canadian island of Labrador, Gadd and cohorts tinker with testy icebergs and hope they don’t roll over.
Follow me on Twitter @lostcascadia… Read the rest
January is a month of freezing weather and new beginnings. It’s the time of year when it gets so cold outside that schools shut down and frozen iguanas fall from the trees in Florida (true story). But it’s also the time when cascading waterfalls harden into walls of ice, providing… Read the rest
Founded in Ouray, Colorado in 1999, Chicks With Picks takes women on ice climbing adventures. Head Chick Kim Reynolds, who began ice climbing in 1982, told the Watch:
“It isn’t unusual as it used to be to see women out there ice climbing together,” she said. “I feel like … Read the rest
Tom (who is one of the riders in the film) writes on Chamonix Snow Report:
This short film was designed to inform freeriders about the dangers of glacier travel, how to identify hidden hazards and how to keep you safe up there.… Read the rest
Thanks Tom!
[Via: Chamonix Snow Report]
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Art is an excellent vehicle for activism, particularly when it comes to public installations. The World Wildlife Fund recently installed such an installation in Berlin, where 1,000 miniature people made of ice were placed around the city during a warm 23 degree Celsius day. Reminiscent of our currently melting polar… Read the rest
Russian adventure-seekers have found a new way to pass the time. For lack of a better name, we will refer to it simply as what it is: group train-dodge rope-jumping over solid ice. Here’s how it works…
1. Find a train bridge with a frozen river beneath it (possibly for… Read the rest
Glaciers are melting, and they’re metling quickly. To avoid environmental catastrophe, scientist Jason Box is proposing to cover them with blankets that will reflect the sun’s rays in order to halt melting. He’s currently working on testing out his idea in Greenland.
Seem like a crazy and expensive idea? Maybe,… Read the rest
At 365 feet, Bridal Veil Falls is Colorado’s tallest free falling waterfall. When it freezes, it’s also one of the most difficult ice climbs in the country. Last week on February 12, to celebrate the re-opening of the climb, Erik Weihenmayer, who lost his sight at age 13, and Chad… Read the rest
John Waller from uncage the soul productions just sent this over. Pretty cool footage from inside an Ice Cave shot with the new Canon 5D Mark II. John’s heading down to New Mexico for a nine day trip, and will post a report on iWend on his way back. Thanks… Read the rest
Nordic Skating (or tour skating), called “lÃ¥ngfärdsskridsko” Swedish, is a popular Nordic sport that does not enjoy a lot of popularity in North America. But it looks like fun.
When most North Americans think of skating across ice we visualize what we know: hockey game thuggery, or the spinning, dancing,… Read the rest
It’s the third week of Wend’s Alternative Transportation Month and today we’re featuring a photo taken right here in Portland. When we were blasted with snow at the end of December, most Portland cyclists didn’t know how to cope, but David Kurushima certainly did; his ice bike construction is definitely… Read the rest
If you give a mouse a cookie, he is going to ask for a glass of milk. If Japanese researchers give him a cookie then kill him and stuff him in a freezer for over a decade then clone him, his clone will ask for a glass of milk as… Read the rest
Most people don’t know that over the past three months the United States and Canada have been involved in a joint effort to map and collect scientific data about the continental shelf and oceanic basins in the Arctic. On October 1st researchers aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy… Read the rest
