WATCH: BASE Jumpers In Moab
Outside Moab, Utah sit a string of spires known as the Fisher Towers. Beautiful in their own right, they're even more memorable when BASE jumpers are ...
Outside Moab, Utah sit a string of spires known as the Fisher Towers. Beautiful in their own right, they're even more memorable when BASE jumpers are ...
Stacy Bare | Posted 03.26.2012
As a Nation, did we really prevent further mass terrorism? Did we help to spread democracy? Did we make the world a better place? All of us who have served have our own answers to these questions.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 12.18.2011
Eric Larsen, 40, is the first person to have reached the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Mount Everest within the span of one year. The goal is to get people to care -- and do something -- about climate change, the effects of which Larsen saw first hand on his journeys.
Elia Saikaly | Posted 11.20.2011
Since Mt. Everest was first successfully climbed in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay from the South side in Nepal, it's become ever so co...
Adrian Margaret Brune | Posted 09.17.2011
At 37, bean Bowers was an accomplished climber and guide in Patagonia, Pakistan and all over the Western U.S.. I hadn't seen him since my last night in Lander, Wyoming, after which I returned to school and embarked on my own steady climb through life.
Julia Plevin | Posted 09.13.2011
Sometimes when people show up at the climbing gym on Harrison without a partner, the employees will announce over the P.A. system that someone is looking for a partner to belay. This is like putting yourself in a live date auction.
Georgina Miranda | Posted 09.07.2011
When I embarked on Everest, I had five of the seven summits behind me, but everything about this mountain, both physically and emotionally, was on a whole other level.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 07.03.2011
When you visit as many stores as I do (note to accountant -- it's retail research, not shopping), you begin to see patterns and trends emerging, and New York this year is no exception.
Georgina Miranda | Posted 06.19.2011
The climb to and on the glacier was grueling. It took three hours to climb up the glacier and 1.5 hours down. The sun beat down on the ice and practically baked us in our climbing gear.
James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011
In July and August, an estimated 200,000 people climb Fuji. It's so easy that many make the climb at night to see sunrise from the summit.
Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011
I look for a toehold, plant my hands on a boulder, and push myself up a few feet. I am climbing Gros Piton, a twin mountain along with Petit Piton on the western coast of St. Lucia.
Jenny Block | Posted 05.25.2011
I knew that the trip to Joshua Tree would change my life. But I never even imagined that the gear would too.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
ESTES PARK, Colo. — The body of a 54-year-old Colorado climber killed in a fall at Rocky Mountain National Park has been flown out of the backcountr...
James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011
As we approach the 21,000 ft. mark, I'm moving slowly -- a laborious three breaths per step. A once-dull headache has blossomed into something seeming more serious.
James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike many peaks, there is no "escape hatch" on the Matterhorn. Not much room for error, which is why more than 500 people have died there, thrice the fatalities of Mt. Everest.
James M. Clash | Posted 05.25.2011
Of my excursions to the dark continent, perhaps the most interesting was to Namibia.
Christian Beckwith | Posted 05.25.2011
1991. On a Yugoslavian train, two young Americans faced one another across a table. Karine had a braid that wove around her shoulders and down her spi...
Deb Dion | Posted 05.25.2011
Chuck Kroger used his special gifts to create the Via Ferrata, which can get even a non-climber or a novice climber to a breathtaking route high in the mountains.
Claire Walter | Posted 05.25.2011
Glenn Porzak, a veteran climber who had conquered the iconic seven summits (the highest points on all continents), was seriously injured on Aug. 21 during a relatively easy climb just a few miles from home.
Nikki Stone | Posted 05.25.2011
At the top of Everest, all I heard were sounds of space. I felt as if I was being swallowed up by the sky. Though I lost the use of my eyes long ago, on that day I saw a glorious vision.
Posted 02.27.2012