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• Himalaya 2011: Everest Update!

  

  It was a successful Summit Day for at least some of the commercial teams on Everest yesterday. The expected first big push took place on schedule, with a... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: First Cell Phone Call From Summit Of Everest

  Last week I posted a story about British climber Kenton Cool reaching the summit of Everest for the 9th time, and then promptly using his Samsung smartphone to... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2011 OUTDOORS, SNOW

• Himalaya 2011: Summit Bids Begin! Weather Window Closing?

  

  The summit push that we've been anticipating for the past week is now in full swing, and as I write this teams are heading up Everest en masse as they try to... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2011 OUTDOORS, SNOW

• Merrell Adventure Addicts Win Expedition Africa

  

  Expedition length adventure racing returned to Africa in a big way this week when Expedition Africa got underway in the Western Cape region of South Africa. Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: Apa Nabs Number 21!

  

  So, remember when I said I was going to Chile for a few days? Turns out things didn't go quite as planned. Massive storms in the Dallas area killed all... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Catlin Arctic Survey 2011: Explorers Off The Ice

  

  The 2011 Catlin Arctic Survey came to an official end last week when the Explorers Team was finally picked up from the ice. That team, consisting of Ann Daniels... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2011 OUTDOORS, SNOW

• impossible2Possible To Launch Expedition Bolivia

  

  Ray Zahab and the rest of the crew at impossible2Possible are getting ready for the next adventure, this time on the salt flats of Bolivia. The organization,... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2011 OUTDOORS, TREK

• Cyclist Wouter Weylandt Dies In Crash At Giro

  

  By now, many of you have no doubt heard the word that Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt died in a crash at the Giro d'italia yesterday. He was just 26 years old... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: Teams Jockey For Position On Everest's South Side

  

  As predicted last week, the teams on the South Side of Everest are working to get themselves into position for summit bids later this week. With the ropes... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2011 OUTDOORS, SNOW

• Buy Stuff From Planet Gear, Help The International Mountain Biking Association

  

  Remember that members only gear shop called Planet Gear that I told you about awhile back? Well, they launched on schedule at the end of March, and have been... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: 82-Year Old Dies On Everest

  

  Sad news from Everest today, as we have received word that 82-year old Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya died while trying to scale the mountain. He had hoped to set... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 OUTDOORS, SNOW, TREK

• Trailer For High Altitude Mountaineering Film Cold

  What's it like to climb Gasherbrum II, the 8035 meter (26,362 ft) Pakistani peak in February? Apparently it is Cold. That is exactly the feeling you get from th... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 OUTDOORS, SNOW, TREK

• Greg Mortenson, CAI Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit, Offer Up A Defense

  

  As the Greg Mortenson/Tree Cups of Tea controversy continues to play out, there were two new developments late last week, that come to us courtesy of Outside... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 CURRENT, LEGAL, OUTDOORS, SOCIETY

• Himalaya 2011: Ueli Steck Shares Details Of Cho Oyu

  

  Last Friday we got the news that Ueli Steck and Don Bowie had summitted Cho Oyu, notching Ueli's second 8000 meter peak in 18 days. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Ditch The Deet: Week 3

  

  Okay, I haven't had a whole lot of luck giving away these Ditch The Deet packages I've been mentioning on my blog over the past couple of weeks. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Checkpoint Tracker Rankings (May 6 - 2011)

  

  The Checkpoint Tracker adventure racing series is the premiere AR league in North America, with 57 different promoters offering nearly 170 events across the... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: Ueli and Don Summit Cho Oyu!

  

  Ueli Steck and Don Bowie have topped out on Cho Oyu, reaching the summit yesterday and nabbing the second 8000 meter peak in just 18 days for Steck. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Adventurers And Scientists For Conservation

  

  Yesterday I received an excellent link in my e-mail that I thought might be of interest to a number of readers as well. It is for an organization called... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2011 ECO-LIVING, ENVIRONMENT, OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: Skiing A New Line On Lhotse

  I caught this video this morning while reading Backcountry.com's the Goat Blog. It is the first dispatch from a team of skiers and climbers from the Camp 4... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2011 OUTDOORS

• Himalaya 2011: Kenton Cool Nabs 9th Everest Summit, Tweets Success!

  

  British mountaineer Kenton Cool has nabbed the first non-Sherpa summit of the year on Everest, just a day after the route was opened. Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2011 OUTDOORS