Adventure

Nothing compares to the experience of being in the mountains at altitude, taking in the views, breathing crisp, clean air, hearing the first bubble of a stream at its nascent spring and seeing the tundra climate shrink our world down to miniature — tiny flowers, tiny...

When Gretchen Miller found out that her father, 82, had leukemia — and at most three months to live — she reached out to hospice for help...

This summer's outbreak of the deadly hantavirus has led the National Park Service to offer voluntary testing to every employee of Yosemite National Park, where the virus spread to as many as 22,000 visitors...

As the 2012 Paralympic Games begin in London this week, officials will be as concerned as ever about preventing and catching cheating among the athletes...

You know ski season is on when you are standing in Boulder Ski Deals at 9 a.m. on a Saturday in September — soaked in sweat because it’s already 80 degrees, the town permeated with a campfire aroma — and the line is out the door...

For sporting types like ourselves, the alluring call of the wild drone was not something we could resist...

For Lakpa Rita Sherpa, there was no question. After five of his men died on the side of Everest in the avalanche that swept down its slopes on April 18, he had two things to do — take the body of a friend home, and then come back to Base Camp to tell his team that ...

Ryan Waters is crossing through a wet valley high in central Nepal, en route to his next objective — climbing Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh-highest peak. Between five-minute intervals on his satellite phone, Waters talked with Boulder Weekly about his record-...

God is an Italian. Don’t think so? Here’s proof: The food, the wine and the weather. Want more? Throw mountains into the mix. And not just any mountains, but the massive three-valley complex known as Monterosa Ski. And it’s here, in the isolated villages that dot ...

Stage Four was a day for favorites to finally emerge from...

"Speed is king for us,” says Paul Calandrella, general manager at The Pro’s Closet (TPC) in Louisville.  He’s an avid biker — much like the...

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...