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Wade Davis is an anthropologist, ethnobotanist, storyteller and award-winning explorer. He has adventured, lived and worked in countries all over the world and has studied subjects ranging from the global biodiversity crisis to the cultural and religious myths of the Amazon. Davis has shared countless stories through articles, public talks… Read the rest

“It seemed like a good idea at the time,” says Polar Explorer Eric Larsen in the trailer for his film, COLDER… Read the rest, which chronicles his Save the Poles expedition–a journey to raise awareness about the effects of global climate change on the frozen landscapes of our planet.
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There are a couple things one expects to see when climbing Mount Everest—snow and fog, of course, top that list. There are also a couple of things one does not expect to see when climbing Mount Everest—namely, cellular phones.
It’s time to move the latter to the former, because Mount… Read the rest

It seems like everyone is climbing the world’s tallest mountain these days – and finding a way to make headlines doing it. Earlier this week, thirteen-year-old Jordan Romano became the youngest person to climb Everest. Today I read about Sean Swarmer, the first cancer survivor to reach the summit. Sherpa… Read the rest

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

13-year-old Jordan Romero wants to become the youngest person in the world to summit Mount Everest. So, accompanied by his dad and his dad’s girlfriend, he’s started making the climb. Although Romero has climbed five of the Seven Summits, he’s aware that Everest is an entirely different beast… One that… Read the rest

“The highest junkyard on the face of the earth.” That’s what Dr. Barry Bishop, a climber, wrote in National Geographic in 1963. He was referring to Mount Everest, and the tons of empty oxygen canisters, pieces of rope and torn tents that have littered the mountain ever since man started… Read the rest

Tomorrow, a team of expert climbers will set out to summit the world’s highest peak  — but they won’t go to test their mental and physical limits. Instead, they will climb 26,246 feet to Mount Everest’s “death zone” on a clean-up mission — to retrieve and rid the mountain of… Read the rest

Jordan Romero, a 13-year-old from California will attempt to climb Mount Everest in order to fulfill his goal of reaching the summits of the highest peaks on each continent.
When he was just 10, Romero became the youngest American to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, and has since summited Mount McKinley—which is… Read the rest

Climber Conrad Anker is on a mission to figure out at least some of the mystery behind George Mallory’s strange disappearance on Mount Everest. (Mallory, as we all know, was also on a mission, in 1924, to be the first to summit Everest — but to this day, no one… Read the rest

History goes as follows: In 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to summit Mount Everest, but never returned (Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999, Irvine’s remains missing). In 1954, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to officially and successfully summit the mountain, and are… Read the rest

In the same way that walking fast became jogging, and skating became speed skating, Austrian mountaineer Christian Stangl has invented “skyrunning.” Similar to traditional mountaineering, only much faster, Stangl has ascended the Seven Summits (the tallest peak on each continent) at record speeds.  He carries minimal gear, does not use… Read the rest

Most people trek to Everest Base Camp with the regular list of goods: warm clothes, freeze dried food, a compass, etc. But then there’s Chocolate Sherpa, a group of adventurers, who between April 10 and May 10 will be making their way to Everest Base Camp with the standard assortment… Read the rest

What’s the best way to celebrate getting to the top of all Seven Summits? Singing.
At least that’s how Lakpa Rita Sherpa rejoiced when he made his way into the history books by being the first sherpa to stand atop the highest peaks on all seven continents. A professional mountain… Read the rest

Here’s a clip of the trailer for Blindsight. This is the kind of documentary that should put any hesitation you ever had about taking on a new adventurous feat; if blind teenagers climbing the north side of Everest isn’t inspirational, I’m not quite sure what is.
[Via The Adventure Channel]… Read the rest