Adventure
Inside mountaineering
As the camera pans away from the glare of the rising sun, jagged white and blue ice peaks fill the screen. In the middle distance, the tallest catches the first pink light of dawn. In the foreground we see a climber encased in his red down survival spacesuit. He is ...
Daredevil Makes Test Jump at 71,581 Feet
The plunge from 71,581 feet was a success. Next up: 120,000 feet...
Outdoor Tech Evolution
A box of photographs has been sitting in my closet for nearly a decade now, waiting to be digitized and organized...
Steep, deep and cheap at Berthoud Pass
One of the great mysteries of Colorado skiing is how a ski area that racked up more snow than anywhere else in the state, was an hour and 15 minutes from downtown Denver and which had some of the steepest terrain in the country managed to go out of business...
One stage to rule them all
The USA Pro Cycling Challenge will spend a week pitting cyclist against cyclist for top rank in a race that claims to be one of the world’s toughest. But when the bike tires turn toward Boulder on Aug. 25 for the last stage of racing before the final time trial in ...
Ride, run and, above all, race
Not familiar with cyclocross? Let’s introduce you to your new addiction...
When love is the greatest adventure of all
It’s a curious thing, the way sound bounces off rock. Cup your palms around your mouth, scream into a canyon, and on a still...
K2%uFFFDs deadliest day: The Sherpa perspective
"Among mountaineers Sherpas hold nearly mythical status. They have this seemingly superhuman ability to perform incredible climbing feats,” relates Peter Zuckerman, coauthor of Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day (W...
Fight between European climbers, Sherpas reported on Mt. Everest
A group of three European climbers has reported a fight between themselves and a group of Sherpa guides on Mount Everest...
Who died at Crooked Creek?
Trial law prohibits the admission of statements made outside the court as hearsay, statements said or written outside the trial and the bounds of an oath to tell the truth, beyond the ability of the judge and jury to observe and assess their delivery or attorneys to ...
Ain’t too hard for me to jam
As Havilah Curtis suits up before she takes the roller derby track, she slides a band with the number 147 stitched on it up...
Venturing out of the box
I had the best cubicle job in the world. Which is like boasting about being the world’s tallest midget...
