Why do people do extreme sports? Some of the reasons aren't always that obvious
Participation in extreme sports has surged since COVID-19, with 490 million people estimated to be taking part globally. This ...
A Human-Powered Adventure to Canada’s High Peaks Is Anything But Easy
A pair of Washington climbers, inspired by the warming climate and an enormous challenge, reached a peak normally accessed by ...
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New ice core data provides insight into climate 'tipping points' during the last Ice Age
New research from multiple ice cores collected across Greenland with data spanning up to 120,000 years provides new understanding of abrupt Dansgaard-Oeschger events, how they unfold and what that ...
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Planning to climb Mount St. Helens? Avoid crater rim or risk death
Andy Goodwin stationed himself last Saturday at the top of Mount St. Helens, where he usually spends several hours each week ...
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Forest Service tells Mount St. Helens climbers to avoid crater rim or risk death
The federal agency has asked climbers to stay away from the rim and avoid looking down into the crater – as breathtaking as ...
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“I realised I had the first stages of snow blindness”
Adventure climber, Tim Emmett, on his partnership with performance eyewear brand, evil eye, and the importance of eyewear in extreme sports ...
The Piolets d'Or - The 'Oscars' of Mountaineering Achievement
The Piolets d'Or - The Golden Ice Ave The Piolets d’Or, known as the ‘Golden Ice Axe’, represents mountaineering’s highest ...
Chris Jones, climber who in 1974 scaled a face steeper than the Eiger and higher than El Capitan
Chris Jones, who has died aged 84, was a British climber who in the 1960s and 1970s established bold new alpine climbs in ...
Looming extreme weather threat set to become more common: 'Considered to be one of the most devastating of all natural disasters'
The issue most linked to the melting of the glaciers is rising sea levels. As glaciers continue to melt and disperse their ...
Idaho woman ‘craves’ adventure. She’ll climb Everest on journey to summit world peaks.
Eva Steinwald, of Meridian, Idaho, is climbing the tallest mountains on each continent. She completed Denali and Aconcagua ...
Aging farmers face extreme temperatures as they struggle to maintain Japan’s rice crop
In the remote village of Kamimomi in Japan’s western Okayama prefecture, a small group of rice farmers began their most ...
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Cold-Weather Vegetables: Growing Edibles in the Frosty Months
As the leaves turn and temperatures drop, the garden undergoes a beautiful transformation, signaling the arrival of winter. However, winter doesn’t mean your garden has to take a complete rest.