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Rab Latok Alpine Jacket: Expectations Bested
When I picked up Rab’s Latok Alpine jacket for the first time I was skeptical. The Latok was lighter than any of the performance hard shells I’d worn previously, and the bright orange eVent label on the sleeve made me wary. Adding to my incredulity, I had never heard of Rab. Learning to love the…
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Finding Balance
A short film that explores the relationship between the outdoors and the creative energy that fuels Lucas Reynolds’s music.
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Remembering Sir Edmund Hillary
Forty Kiwi mountaineers raised their axes as one to form the New Zealand Alpine Club’s honor guard when Sir Edmund Hillary’s coffin emerged…
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Cilao OZ 22 Race Harness: Built for Fast and Light
Every summer in Chamonix, among the 350+ mountain guides working in the valley, there seems to be one piece of gear that becomes eminently popular, and by the end of the season most guides have it. This year it was the Cilao OZ 22 Race harness, which weighs in at an insanely light 3.5 ounces.…
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The Fatal Game
After summitting Mt. Everest in 1994, Kiwi guide Mark Whetu and his client Mike Rheinberger are forced to bivouac at 28,800 feet. The next day they try to descend but Rheinberger is stricken with cerebral edema and Whetu must decide whether to stay with his friend on the mountain or save his own life.
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Lowa Cristallo X Pro Gore-Tex Boots: Technical Prowess and Comfort
I’ve always been skeptical of Gore-Tex footwear, and it’s almost guaranteed that I’ll have cold feet regardless of the temperature (unless I’m clunking around in double boots), so I was curious to see how the Lowa Cristallo X Pro Gore-Tex boots would perform climbing and scratching around the Canadian Rockies.
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Inspirations, Part III: Gervasutti’s Climbs
Simon Richardson shares his inspiration: Giusto Gervasutti. “As a teenager, consumed by a newfound passion for mountaineering, I had a voracious appetite for climbing books. I read my way through the school library and then the local town library, seeking out more adventures and experiences on the written page, so that I could gauge my…
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Red Wine and Climbing
“In amongst the purple Chianti haze, I spot a thin crack in hard rock. Replacing the heel-hook I grab the small wires from my harness and without hesitation bite the green wire. A sickly-battery-taste makes me gag…”
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Apparently buildering was invented in 1905. Who Would’ve Thought?
I stumbled across an article on buildering and what it’s perceived to be in the non-climbing community. I was surprised to find out that it’s been around since 1905 when Harry Gardiner started climbing various tall buildings around the world, eventually climbing about 700 around the world.
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Surfing Morocco
The swell-forecasting models were predicting the biggest swell of the year to hit northern Africa by week’s end, and the crew had only a matter of days to slip away to the world’s best waves.
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