AMGA and IFMGA certified guide and founder of Alpenglow Expeditions Adrian Ballinger recently returned from Mt. Everest and Lhotse and filed this essay, in which he argues that requiring or demanding certified guides is a key to reducing risk on the world’s highest peak. — Ed. Over the past two years, I have read numerous [...]
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Visitors to marine parks have watched orcas perform all kinds of cute and fun tricks, but these sleek and powerful mammals perform their greatest acrobatics in the wild, without artificial stimulus. Capt. Garry Henkel of Aboriginal Journeys proved this emphatically with a spectacular set images captured last week off Campbell River, British Columbia. But even [...]
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If there’s anything good to come from California’s tepid snowfall last winter, it might be lower spring runoff that wards against the rash of river deaths the Sierra Nevada experienced last year. Maybe. Maybe, but things aren’t off to a great start. 19-year-old Aleh Kalman of Sacramento, who was visiting Yosemite National Park with a [...]
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Architect Tom Kundig’s cabin designs are striking in their modern style and boxy shapes — they’re certainly not designed to blend in — and that’s a problem in eastern Washington’s Methow Valley, where a hut owned by Kundig and friends perches on a ridgeline viewable from the valley floor. Just two other ridgeline structures are [...]
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Weekend Cabin Stirs Up Controversy in Washington Valley
Forest Service Drops Plan to Monitor Fires With Drones
Russians Find 10,000-Year-Old Liquid Mammoth Blood, Plan Cloning
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B.C.’s Jumbo Ski Resort Gets Approval for Construction
Nepal Wants to Be Paid for Everest Summit Video “Broadcast”
Outfitters Want to Add Ladder to Everest Hillary Step
Boy Scouts to Allow Gay Members
The Daily Bike: Mountain Bike Enduro World Series Kicks Off
The Man Who Skied Down Everest Climbs it at 80
Smokey Is Fighting Fracking and the Feds Don’t Like It
Volunteer Fired at Saguaro National Park for Reporting Graffiti
Sierra Club Joins Lawsuit Against Mountain Bike Park
Driver Busted After Bragging on Twitter About Hitting Cyclist
