Adventure

The young man balances himself atop the tall pole, gleaming with sweat, and faces the direction of the sun. The pole represents the Tree of Life, and he has struggled to make it up to its pinnacle, competing against other youths showing off their daring to an ...

Training schedules for the rapidly approaching Winter Olympic Games in Sochi,Russia kept several prominent Winter X Games stars away from the competition this past weekend in Aspen. Shaun White for one, wasn't there to defend his six straight wins in the snowboarding...

It might be late in the session in an election year...

As often as athletes talk about being "in the zone," that's typically taken as a metaphor or a vague feeling...

The sign read, “Tenaya Canyon is extremely dangerous. Many have lost...

For a bit of perspective, Congressman Jared Polis says, “For the price of Trump’s proposed border wall ($20 billion), we could make all the...

If you were going to go to war over a mountain, Cerro Torre would be the one to do it for...

The signs were there: constant thirst, loss of weight despite a healthy appetite, fatigue. A trip to the hospital confirmed it: 12-year-old Walt Drennan...

There are tiny fires everywhere. This is one of the first things you will notice about India — the uncountable number of people and the fires trickling haphazardly toward the smoggy sky to keep mosquitoes at bay. I never saw who lit them or who put them out...

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The visual skyscrapers called the Flatirons that dominate our skyline have always attracted attention. From the first ascent of the third Flatiron by Earl...

This May, local mountaineer Mike Moniz successfully summited Mount Everest (29,029 feet) and Lhotse (27,940 feet) only 24 hours apart. After consecutively climbing the word’s tallest and fourth-tallest mountains with the International Mountain Guide (IMG) Classic ...