Adventure

This has been a winter of bi-polar conditions in Colorado’s mountains. Strong storms have alternated with warm, wet days to create some of the most unpredictable snow conditions in 20 years. As we turn the corner to spring, it’s important not to let your guard down ...

A group of three European climbers has reported a fight between themselves and a group of Sherpa guides on Mount Everest...

I was 26 when I received my Melly from my coworker, Connor, an eclectic van-dweller. I’d recently moved to Utah to work as a field guide...

They say you can’t run before you walk, but Terry Chiplin may be the exception to the rule. The British-native is the founder of the...

Barry Blanchard has spent more than 6,000 days of his life rock climbing, ski touring, mountaineering, alpine climbing and ice climbing. At this point, he says, he’s very intimate with those environments, and can recall the textures in the snow, the ice and the rock ...

Lindsey Vonn is a good ski racer. But how about this: “Lindsey Vonn is the greatest racer ever...

Sorry, guys, just a little rock in the road there...

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 ...

What do you call a guy with no arms and no legs swimming...

A box of photographs has been sitting in my closet for nearly a decade now, waiting to be digitized and organized...

Jan Mitchell is going to have to buy a donkey for a family in Ghana. It’s good news. Two years ago, she gave the family a bull to replace one that died after rocks were thrown at it to chase it out of a garden. She promised that if, when she returned, the bull was ...

Their tent caught my eye at the Iron Horse Classic in Durango. Again in Castle Rock, there was their rack of t-shirts and rider...