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 Megalodon Man
By Andrea Sutherland - Photos by Blake Herrington - After a summer packed with hiking, scrambling, bushwacking, wading, rappelling, climbing, and first ascents, Blake Herrington, of Bellingham, Washington, needs a job… or perhaps just more virgin stone.  Legends of the Costa Blanca
Text and photos by Dougald MacDonald - The Costa Blanca, a 50-mile swath of beaches and limestone cliffs on Spain’s eastern coast, between Murcia and Valencia, is one of the great winter climbing destinations of the world.  LEGACY OF THE DREAMER
Grant more than doubles for 2008 Mugs Stump Award - As long as it was at least a little bit out there, Mugs Stump was always psyched for something, be it a big wall, long free route, frozen waterfall, or high alpine face.  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode 10
There’s no such thing as a perfect job. There’s always a catch nagging bosses, gossiping co-workers, crummy benefits. That’s why we get paid to work. But what if there was a magical place where you could get paid to climb.  The Best Climbing Wall in Iraq
Micah Helser is a Medevac pilot for the Army, currently deployed to Iraq. He’s been in Iraq for a year now, and will remain there for three more months. He spends his days sweating in the desert heat, flying rescue missions in a Blackhawk helicopter.  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode 9
A Prayer for a Friend - How do people remember the dead? Some people stuff wrinkled snapshots into wallets. Others build ornate mausoleums. Others ensure their friends’ memories by creating goals that can never fully be realized.  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode 8
If you've opened an outdoor magazine in the last three years, you've probably read about Steve House. In the last decade, he's pulled off some incredible ascents in the Canadian Rockies, Alaska and the Himalaya.  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode 7
In 1996, photographer John Burcham and three friends completed the first foot traverse of the 650-mile long Alaska Range. Together, they forded streams, chased off curious grizzlies and crossed crevassed glaciers.  The Shared Summits K2 Expedition
Mark your calendar: Sunday February 17th, at 2:30 p.m. EST on NBC's Jeep World of Adventure Sports ... The Shared Summits K2 Expedition Story! Chris and crew captured over 30 hours of high definition footage while climbing K2. NBC's Jeep World of Adventure Sports is a perfect outlet for the amazing film highlights during this one hour show.  The Man, The Myth, The Legend
Because of his unyielding dedication and immeasurable depth of perseverance, twenty years later, Siurana has over nine-hundred sport routes and forty-five areas. Best of all, he sported a brilliant Spanish mullet: long party dreads in the back, short messy hair for business in the front.  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode 6 - The Anatomy of an Accident
In May of 2007, writer Fitz Cahall made a mistake that should have cost him his life when he slipped high on a Central Oregon volcano. He fell between 250-300 feet, over a cliff, through rock bands before grabbing a rock out cropping and stopping his fall.  Step Aside Sucka
In motorsports racing the slower cars move off the raceline when getting lappped, on the golf course faster parties play thru the slower ones ... We see it in our lives everyday and we learn from those who are more efficient than us.  A Woodie Project
Do you wish you were stonger? Are you ready to sack-up and take it to the next level? Build a climbing wall in your house and get sronger for less that $2 a day! It's fun, easy, cheap and you can bribe your friends to help you with beer.  The Dirtbag Diaries - Episode 4 - A Thousand Words
There is no textbook on adventure journalism, but if there were one, it would contain one single, steadfast rule — you can't photograph adventure from a safe distance.  Zack Smith on the Compressor Route
Maestri ruined the entire nature of this peak by installing over 400 bolts, often a foot-and-a-half apart and next to cracks, across illogical blank rock avoiding the natural line up the arete proper.  The other side of the 2006 "Golden Ice Axe": Montagnes talks about Prezelj and the Piolet
In the weeks that followed Marko Prezelj’s refusal of the 2006 Piolet d’or, at the ceremony in Grenoble, France, on January 26, Climbing sat down with the Montagnes editors Phillipe Descamps and Manu Rivaud.  TAKE - The story of a boy who fell 110 feet
On March 11th 2007, veteran climber Issac Palatt, fresh from school in New York, and home from spring break, woke up early for a regular day of cragging near Saint George, Utah.  Everest Weather Reports - Updated 5/23/07
Daily weather reports for the Mount Everest region by Michael Fagin of Weather Services and dispatches from Alpineascents.com, Mountainguides.com, and Supersherpas.com. Join their teams as they climb the highest mountain on earth at 8,850m (29,035ft).  The AstroTour of the West
Each area has a flagship climb that inevitably gets compared to its big brother in Yosemite. There's the Astroman of the Gunks, of the Gorge, of South America, of Switzerland, of Australia, and on, and on, and on.  A Winter Ascent of Bellavista
At some point, between millions of raindrops, the third, and the fourth beer, we speak about the aims for the upcoming winter. Martin, with a big smile from one ear to the next, suggests trying ourselves in the Bellavista on the Cima Ovest ... and I cannot help but think he is crazy, or at least drunk. |
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