Adventure
Michael Ybarra, extreme-sports columnist for WSJ, killed in Sierra
The Wall Street Journal posted today (July 4) that its...
Warriors in the wilderness
If the shocks in his prosthetic arm would reload faster, Marc Dervaes could spend all his evenings doing one-armed pushups. After losing his right arm just above the elbow in combat, Dervaes had a replacement prosthetic built with a set of shocks like those on a ...
Alex Willie named to USA World Cup Cycling Team
Alex Willie’s road to the 2012 Mountain Bike World Championships in Leogang-Saalfelden, Austria, just got a lot smoother. The 17-year-old cyclist, who was profiled in the May 31 issue of Boulder Weekly, has just been named to the elite United States World Cup Cycling...
Where there’s fire, there’s smoke
Many Boulder residents rely on the beautiful and abundant outdoors to keep physically fit and mentally sound...
Ranger Dies During Rescue On Rainier
A park ranger died during a rescue yesterday on Mt. Rainier, a 14,410-foot glacier-coated volcano in Washington State that attracts thousands of climbers each year...
Climbing for a cure
This Saturday, many people will rock climb, hike and walk around in the beautiful Colorado sunshine. But some of them will do so in support of ovarian cancer research with the HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation’s Climb4Life Colorado...
Four Climbers Presumed Dead in Avalanche
An avalanche on Mt. McKinley's West Buttress during the early morning...
Did Lance Try to Fly Under the Radar?
Seven-time Tour de France champ and cancer activist Lance Armstrong is back in the news, but not for great physical feats...
This is your brain. This is your brain at altitude.
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 ...
Olympic Torch to Zipline Across River
Ever since Olympic basketball gold medalist Sergei Belov's memorable torch run in 1980...