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Bivacco dal Bianco at Passo Ombretta, Marmolada, closed for maintenance

Was ist eigentlich ein Eiskern? Tobi checkt das für Euch!

Montagna.tv (Italian)

Iniziata la migrazione guidata degli ibis eremita attraverso le Alpi, direzione Orbetello

Yves Gravelle Sends Val-David’s First V13

The Last Lead: Aging Out of Climbing

The 10 Things Eric Lagerstrom Can't Live Without

The Adventure Blog

Video: Hello, Iceland - A Solo Journey Through One of the Most Beautiful Countries on Earth

TDA Global Cycling

The Middle of the World

Surfnewsnetwork

Beschen Blood Running in the Ohana

ESA Observing the Earth

Sentinel-1 speeds up crop insurance payouts

Pythom News

Day 19, a grueling 14-hour summit bid. Closer to the summit they came upon a 200m, 60-degree ice wall.

Chugach Mountains: crossing and summit completed

Fruit cake found at Cape Adare thought to be from Scott's Northern Party (1911).

Fruit Cake and Volcanoes Hidden in The Ice

Vince, Day 8: "Quite straight up. Rocks and rocks. It looks that there is a passage right in between a hanging glacier and a rock face. If we stay on the right side of it, we should be sheltered from any ice falls."

Chugach: Crossing steep mountain passes and crevassed glaciers

Michal Woroch i Maciej Kaminski at the Grand Canyon Colorado in Arizona. Photo. Michal Woroch

Alaska must wait

Robert, July 29, 2017: "Last couple of days were the last totally dark ones, now the moon is up again, and the sun will be in astronomical twilight in a few days."

South Pole Winterover, Robert Schwarz talks about auroras, change, and isolation

K2 Abruzzi Ridge

Aleksander Doba on the Atlantic. Photo. Adam Rutkiewicz

A stressful kayaking across the Atlantic

Mathieu Maynadier and Jeremy Rumebe on GII during first summit push. Photo: Boyan Petrov

Summer 2017 Update: GII & Broad Peak Summits, K2 Teams Ready for the Push

From Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, Argentina to Las Vegas, USA - over 20,000 miles

From South to North America in Wheelchairs

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan general accident image area, Nanga Parbat-8125m

Debrief: Nanga Parbat Rescue attempt of Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan

Expedition Dispatches

Borge Ousland Polar Exploration

Day 4, Clearing the icefall !

Hindelanger Klettersteig

Spacewalk Comes to a Close

Lisa Blair Antarctica Circumnavigation

Mountain Professionals

Mount Rainer team summits!

Madison Mountaineering

Mont Blanc climbing program in the French Alps prepares to launch

Planeta Packraft

Waiau Toa Odyssey. Mejor Película en el Mountain Film Festival de Nueva Zelanda

Elisabeth Revol

Himalaya Light 2017

Goodbye Vagabond

Pythom Lab

It's beautiful.

PythomSpace: New Home

We had arrived the Slabs to experiment what it may be like to - instead of bringing a structure - build a Mars habitat from local resources.

Pythom Space: Base Camps on Other Planets

The old patent begins to materialize.

Pythom Labs: Resurrecting Apollo

Yours truly browsing locations for a rocket shop.

Space Lab Hunting in Sierra Gold Country

V2 liquid-propellant missile engines, precursors of present rocket engines. Compare to other gadgets of the time.

PythomSpace: Mars engine, point zero

Lab update: MAV on the table (PythomSpace)

Michal speeding in La Paz

Labs: Adventure Wheelchair Bike

Cocoa beach 2017 edition, Baja California.

Labs: Pythom Space Camp Cocoa Beach, 2017

The cluster sketch.

PythomSpace Lab Update: MAV Taking Shape

"Napkin" concept-scribble of our MAV. Computer-aided design and drafting and test print of model parts are coming up this month.

Lab update: Alpine style to Mars, MAV

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Photos we received from the Master of the Baltic Light

Rudder repaired! Aleksander Doba back on his route in the Atlantic

Mount Everest Expedition

Feather3 20 Watt

Feather3 20W Solar

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan general accident image area, Nanga Parbat-8125m

Debrief: Nanga Parbat Rescue attempt of Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan

2016: New World Record holders Ivar Tollefsen, Trond Hilde, Robert Caspersen

Greenland Ski World Record - Breaking News

Jet storm on Everest

Ueli Steck: After the Smoke has Cleared (Editorial)

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan at Manaslu BC last year. They have previously climbed Manaslu and Dhaulagiri together. The two are amongst the strongest climbers currently active in Himalayas.

(Updated) Alberto Zerain, Mariano Galvan Missing on Mazeno Ridge, Avalanche at Tracker Location

Gieneczko and Skelton claimed full length Amazon River runs, but started below the difficult whitewaters. (All images can be viewed in larger size in this top scroll.)

Stealing the Amazon

Summit after two years at last. Sherpa report.

South Side Triumph: Sherpa Summit Mount Everest

Shadow of Everest draws to rising Moon, as seen from near summit.

Everest Summits without Bottled Oxygen from Northside and Tragedy on Southside; Makalu Ascents (Updated)

Pakistan List of Expeditions 2016

[UPDATE 2] Risto Hallikainen, solo South Pole return ski attempt (Interview)

Aussie Everest summiteer Andrew Lock.

Another unnecessary death on Everest?

Aron Anderson and guide Doug Stoup, training earlier this year in Longyearbyen, Svalbard.

Updated: 2016-17 Antarctica Ski Expedition List by Explorersweb/Pythom

‘Swiss Machine’ Ueli Steck killed in Mt Everest accident

Selfie of Mike Horn a week ago (no recent photos available yet.) He expressed gratitude to sastrugi: "I would like to thank the Sastrugi making me a better and stronger person, teaching me who I am, teaching me there is a way through the wall"

Mike Horn completed Antarctica Traverse

“Weather falling apart and no place to bivouac. Climb on; search harder; need rest.” - Kyle Dempster about their attempt on the face in 2015.

Climbers Missing on Baintha Brakk II (6980m); UPDATE

List of Everest and Himalaya expeditions Spring 2017

Everest BC. Ryan: "When we first got here, people were a bit jumpy when there was a big avalanche near base camp"

Checking in with Everest: About Ueli, Messner, Logistics and Tracking (Interview)

"I'm independent, I sleep where I stop and move walking or paragliding. I'm free everywhere I go: I have no team, assistance or other. "

"Flight of the Century": Chat with Broad Peak Birdman Antoine Girard

The Slovak-Romanian team plans to climb the main peak of Manaslu (8,163 m) through the Northridge of Manaslu North (7,157 m)

Manaslu New Route: Work in Progress

Hank: "I love challenging convention in bicycles."

Cycle Antarctica: Hank van Weelden Pole to Coast attempt (Interview)

Bad weather continues challenging the Annapurna climbers.

Spring 2017: Tragedy, Quiet Base Camps, Bad Weather, and Considering Summit-Bids Options

The crew will travel through the Northeast Passage and Northwest Passage. (All images can be viewed in larger size in this top scroll.)

Sailboat to Circumnavigate North Pole

Cho Oyu NF New Route Attempt

Before and after pics of Hillary step compiled by Montagna. Left pic showing the Step on May 13 this year, on the right in 2013.

Hillary Step Altered? Not So Fast

Photo. Piotr Chmielinski

Accident of Aleksander Doba on the ocean ends his 3rd Transatlantic Kayak Expedition

K2 Winter Attempt No Go

A queue of K2 climbers beneath seracs during summit push in 2014. More people on a dangerous mountain like K2 means potential for large scale catastrophe, if things go wrong.

Summer 2016 Kickoff: K2 Commercial Teams, Nanga Parbat is Back and Some Interesting Expeditions

Mathieu Maynadier and Jeremy Rumebe on GII during first summit push. Photo: Boyan Petrov

Summer 2017 Update: GII & Broad Peak Summits, K2 Teams Ready for the Push

View from C3 at 8300m on Everest Northside.

Spring 2016 Round Up: Final Summit Attempts of the Season, Fatalities and Rescues

Kilian Jornet Everest Speed Climb BC to Summit no/O2 in 26 hrs

Photo: Received from the Master of the Baltic Light

How "Baltic Light" Helped Aleksander Doba

Everest North Side Summit: Irina Galay (28) became the first Ukrainian woman, who climbed Everest

South Pole winter mid-winter 2012. “Outside lights disturb several of our very light sensitive experiments so we only use our red headlamps while outside," Sven Lidstrom told Explorersweb from the South Pole. Image taken at the 90°S sign board with the SP Station building in the background.

Kenn Borek Air South Pole rescue: UPDATED

Over 200 summitting Mount Everest today; a Sherpa guide dies

Helly Hensen Polar Dry suits

2x Helly Henson Polar Survival Suits

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Photos we received from the Master of the Baltic Light

Rudder repaired! Aleksander Doba back on his route in the Atlantic

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan general accident image area, Nanga Parbat-8125m

Debrief: Nanga Parbat Rescue attempt of Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan

Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan at Manaslu BC last year. They have previously climbed Manaslu and Dhaulagiri together. The two are amongst the strongest climbers currently active in Himalayas.

(Updated) Alberto Zerain, Mariano Galvan Missing on Mazeno Ridge, Avalanche at Tracker Location

Mathieu Maynadier and Jeremy Rumebe on GII during first summit push. Photo: Boyan Petrov

Summer 2017 Update: GII & Broad Peak Summits, K2 Teams Ready for the Push

Kilian Jornet Everest Speed Climb BC to Summit no/O2 in 26 hrs

Photo: Received from the Master of the Baltic Light

How "Baltic Light" Helped Aleksander Doba

K2 Abruzzi Ridge

Karakoram kick-off: Pakistan List of Expeditions

Aerial view of Nanga Parbat; Mazeno Ridge appears along right side of photo.

Summer 2017: Nanga Parbat Mazeno Ridge, K2 Ski Challenge, Gasherbrum New Routes and More

Lt Col Dr Abdul Jabbar Bhatti on the summit of Mount Everest.

Mount Everest High Altitude Rescue Debrief

Oxygen bottle left behind at Everest south summit. Explorersweb.

(Nestler/Updated) Without O2: Everest summit pushes are on, fatality toll uncertain

Toward Col on Broad Peak.

Nanga Parbat Summits, Summit-bids on Broad Peak and Gasherbrums

Progress of Alberto and Mariano on Nanga Parbat Mazeno Ridge.

Nanga Parbat Mazeno Ridge Attempt, Kinshofer Route Summit-bid Thwarted and Karakoram Update

Desnivel: Everest Speed Records Rundown

Image capture from rescue video

Closing Everest on the bright side: Rescue at 8500 meters

British man arrested for Photoshopping pictures of Mount Everest’s Hillary Step

Everest Traverse facing legal challenge, “I’ll never regret what I did.”

Nanga Parbat Diamir Face - Photo: Tamara Lunger

Summer 2017: Nanga Parbat Summits Already! (Updated)

Shisha South Wall "near summit" pic by Herve Barmasse (via Montagna)

Shisha South Wall update: Great climb stopping very near summit

Everest: N/S traverse, Blind Summit, Fatality toll rises to 4, Dujmovits holding

Nanga Parbat Diamir Base Camp; Photo: Mariano Galvan<p>

Summer 2017: No Summits on Nanga Parbat, Mazeno Ridge Summit-bid, More Teams in Base Camps

Johnny (right): "I understand"

Mount Everest: Lars to Johnny, "I was THIS close to the summit"

From Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, Argentina to Las Vegas, USA - over 20,000 miles

From South to North America in Wheelchairs

Aleksander Doba. Photo Joanna Konefał-Pycior

Olek is drifting without a rudder in the Atlantic

Michal Woroch i Maciej Kaminski at the Grand Canyon Colorado in Arizona. Photo. Michal Woroch

Alaska must wait

Shisha: Top "doubtful" for Barmasse and Gottler

Spring 2017 Wrap Up: Highlights of Pre-Monsoon Climbing Season

Kilian Jornet on Everest.

Post Weekend Headsup: Jornet double, Dujmovits interview

Aleksander Doba on the Atlantic - May, 2017. Photo Piotr Chmielinski

Kayak "OLO" damaged in the Atlantic!

Summer 2017 Pakistan List of Expeditions

Dhaulagiri summit pic/Confortola

Montagna: Dhaula Summit, Moro/Tamara abort push

Horia Colibasanu: "I want to open a new route next"

The water colour was painted by Dr Edward Wilson who died with Captain Robert Falcon Scott and three others on their return from the South Pole in 1912.

118 year old painting discovered on Antarctica

File image of Chris Bombardier on a previous summit.

"Some times you got to go get after it." MP bagged Everest

www.ManasluClimb.com - World's eighth highest & most accessible 8000 metre/26,200 foot peak in Nepal. High altitude "easy" snow climb.

www.ManasluClimb.com - World's eighth highest & most accessible 8000 metre/26,200 foot peak in Nepal

Alexander Doba ready for the cold waters of the North Atlantic. Photo. Piotr Chmielinski

Alexander Doba is looping around in the Atlantic

Aleksander Doba on the Atlantic. Photo. Adam Rutkiewicz

A stressful kayaking across the Atlantic

Everest Hillary Step, 2017 version.

This Week on Pythom

The Windsled and the two tents it carries on the Inland Ice.

WindSled completed another Greenland expedition

Nestler: China cancels fall season on Tibet’s eight-thousanders

Events and Expeditions

Borge and Vincent carrying again back and forth on the moraine of the massive Columbia Glacier and managed to pull sleds at the end of the day, until they realized the damage done to the sleds.

Chugach Mountains: Ousland and Colliard on another Glacier

Summer 2017 Pakistan List of Expeditions

Antarctica 2018-19: Peninsula Plateau Traverse

Sea Gypsies - Arctic Sailing Expedition

Northwest Passage 2018 - Sailing Expedition

www.ManasluClimb.com - World's eighth highest & most accessible 8000 metre/26,200 foot peak in Nepal. High altitude "easy" snow climb.

www.ManasluClimb.com - World's eighth highest & most accessible 8000 metre/26,200 foot peak in Nepal

List of Everest and Himalaya expeditions Spring 2017

Eric and Tim cycling in Mongolia.

Polar People on the move

The Java Sea is very unpredictable with strong currents, high waves and sleeping on inhabited Islands.

Ex-Street kid, Jelle Veyt, to row Java Sea

Circumnavigating North America could take 10 years.

Freya Hoffmeister to attempt 30,000-mile kayak

This second Changing Earth expedition will begin February 24, 2017, in Akureyri, a small city in northern Iceland. Distance 137 miles.

Iceland expedition: sharing adventures and education

Crowd

Wounded Warriors for Wildlife

Beyond the Smile Documentary

shape foundation nepal

MountaiNow - Safer Together

GALAXY PHOTOGRAPHER'S PLANNER AND HANDBOOK

Emma Tamsin Kelty during South Pole training.

Emma Tamsin Kelty, South Pole for Cancer

Henry Worsley's solo South Pole crossing

In a wet field in Ballogie sat the mighty Avalon, from left to right: Nikki Brown with Baloo, Lisa Furness, and Don Lennox

Ocean Row Events's fundraising

"As outlined in the Capital needs summary above, we require a total of $800K to achieve all of the proposed outcomes (apart from the documentary for which funds are being raised separately)."

Breaking the Cycle South Pole by Kate Leeming

This documentary is at its essence a portrait of movement, how it relates to our goals and dreams, and how it changes our motivations and perspectives.

15 year journey to reclaim movement

Trips and Courses

At summit of island Peak

Island Peak Climbing with Everest Base Camp

Polar Expedition Training Course with Hannah McKeand

Polar Expedition Training Course 2017

Polar Expedition Training Course with Hannah McKeand

Hawaiian Outrigger Canoes on the Amazon

Amazon River Expedition 2017 - with Hawaiian Outrigger Canoes

www.EverestGlacierSchool.com

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Across a crevasse on the North Col

www.EverestTrainingClimbTibet.com

www.LhotseExpedition.com

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: www.LhotseExpedition.com

www.EverestTrainingClimb.com - Team member crossing a ladder over a deep crevasse in the massive Khumbu Icefall.

www.EverestTrainingClimb.com

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Caption @ www.AconcaguaSummitClimb.com

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3D Printed Model of Mount Everest

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Arctica: The Vanishing North by Sebastian Copeland

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Used Gear

Annapurna Base Camp Trekking

Annapurna Base Camp Trek

Wideye Sabre 1 BGAN Terminal

Alpha extreme north pole ski boots size 44

Adventure Comm. Kit

Helly Hensen Polar Dry suits

2x Helly Henson Polar Survival Suits

1970's Everest O2 bottle

Dog not included.

SOLD 28' Airstream -72

Atamos Ninja Recorder

Acapulka 9 layer North Pole expedition sledge

Acapulka North Pole Sledge

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Shackleton Award

I agree the problem is greed. But you are horribly off the mark with regards to climate change.

Piotr Chmielinski

Official Statement from Guinness regarding revoking record from Gienieczko

Piotr Chmielinski

Tina, thank you for posting. Very inspiring and educational information about cave diving.

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Everest Base Camp trek

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