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he spent the next decades of his life pursuing a mountain that seemed at once the symbol of a mythic past and the gateway to his own transcendence
Biff considers the best gear for squaring off in the skintrack
A Muscular Imagination: Andy Parkin and the Art of Climbing Each year grades get higher
Wrenched: E-Suspension Explained
we rode some 40 splitboards at Crested Butte
Even though Hammer and Lama lived on different continents
Smythe’s British Mountaineers
623-foot Mount Titlis catches early season storms on its north facing slopes
old fashioned shotgun- ning
who declared that mountaineering should be both "picnic and pilgrimage
they're only getting better
and we were treated to a spectacular sunset
