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Why K2 Brings Out the Best and Worst in Those Who Climb It
Mountaineers risk avalanches, storms, conflicts, and a curse when they attempt to summit the peak.
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What Was Photographer Jimmy Chin’s Scariest Climb?
It’s not very often that a world-class climber and photographer agrees to answer any question asked—live! But that’s just what happened last week on our Nat Geo Adventure Facebook page …
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Making the World's Most Difficult Expeditions with a Camera in Hand: Jimmy Chin
Jimmy Chin has accomplished it all in the world of action sports and he's had a camera in his hands the whole time. From skiing Everest to climbing some of the world's largest peaks, he has made a career of taking on incredible expeditions while documenting them through photos and videos. His unique expertise across various disciplines has led him to capturing moments that quite literally no one else on Earth could.
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Q&A: Alex Honnold, Simply "Psyched".
Alex Honnold competes in a sport more commonly covered by National Geographic than ESPN. Yet he's likely garnered more media attention than any other climber before him, for an obvious reason: He climbs giant, sheer walls (such as Half Dome and El Capitan) without using ropes or protection. It's called "free-solo," and it's the most dangerous kind of climbing.
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Alex Honnold on Expertise, Night Swimming, and What Worries Him the Most
By now everyone knows that Alex Honnold is the best free-solo climber in the world. We know he scaled Yosemite’s Half Dome (VI 5.12b) alone and without a rope. We’ve seen him on the cover of National Geographic, Outside, on 60 Minutes, and in a Citibank commercial that ran way too many times.
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Setting a Multi-Pitch Anchor
A description of how to set a multi-pitch anchor, and discussion of the important factors in multi-pitch belay anchors.
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The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body
Mount Everest is home to more than 200 bodies. Rachel Nuwer investigates the sad and little-known story behind its most prominent resident, ‘Green Boots’.
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Odyssee, the hardest route on the Eiger North Face
An international trio comprised of Roger Schäli (Switzerland), Robert Jasper (Germany) and Simon Gietl (Italy) have established Odyssee (8a+, 1400m), a difficult and serious new rock climb up the North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland.
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BD athlete Adam Ondra onsights The Golden Ticket (5.14c), Red River Gorge, Kentucky
Black Diamond athlete Adam Ondra traveled to Kentucky's Red River Gorge in late October and 10 days later he had blazed through the area's hardest routes, including onsighting two of the Red's hardest, Pure Imagination and The Golden Ticket, in the same day.
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Bringing to Light
After an unexpected and mind blowing discovery on the slopes of Mount Hood, we embark on an expedition deep under the Sandy Glacier to document the disappearing world and fleeting beauty of the largest glacier cave system in the lower 48 states.
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Taking to the Hills
High in the mountains of Lakeland, away from the crowds and congestion, I was surprised to find exhilarating adventure and a peaceful solitude. This is a story about the mountains themselves, their history, geology, ecology and culture — and about my experiences trying to capture their essence on film.
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This was one of the last unclimbed mountains
Jon Griffith and Andy Houseman go where no one had been before – the Link Sar West in Pakistan.
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The coming of the glacier men
When climbers go missing on high mountains it can be decades before their frozen remains are found in the snow and ice. But around the world, mountain ice is now receding. Does the rise in global temperatures provide hope to families who never had a body to say goodbye to? "I'm always looking for things, or colours, that don't belong in nature, and you can see that quite often, crampons, rucksacks," says Alpine rescue pilot Gerold Biner.
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Meru (2015)
Opening in theaters August 14th. In the high-stakes pursuit of big-wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and an irresistible calling for some of the world's toughest climbers.
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Climbing - Footwork
Article by Chuck Woodward; videos by Dan Crowe
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Crack Climbing
Good face climbers can interpret complex hand and foot sequences, moving efficiently from one body position to the next constantly shifting their center of gravity relative to their hands and feet. Crack climbing sequences, however, are often repetitive, ascending the seam of the crack like an inchworm. Of course, body position is still important in crack climbing, but perhaps the greater challenge for the aspiring crack climber is figuring out how to create "holds" from vertical cracks.
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I Climb Therefore I Am
Syzygy - an adventure video production company, looking at capturing the magnificence of the outdoors and the life of love and passion it offers. A startup aiming at capturing the true essence and the core of all things we do. This is our first ever video - capturing only a slice of India's Climbing Scene, a teaser to the vast potential that is Indian Adventure Sport.
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Hampi Local
Last autumn, we spent two months in Hampi, India, making a documentary film about Vikas (Jerry), a local climber with huge potential. Shot entirely by Lee on a Canon 5d Mark ii, Hampi Local provides striking insight into the beauty of the region and the ability of one of its home-grown talents.
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ABYSS - North America's Highest Bouldering
ABYSS, the latest viral film from Louder Than Eleven, provides an insider's look at rock climbing development. Exploration of secret, alpine climbing terrain high above Colorado's Front Range has created a flurry of debate regarding the philosophy, secrecy and ethics of development. Culminating in Ben Spannuth's FA of one of the world's highest elevation 5.14s, ABYSS opens the floodgates of passionate debate within the climbing community.
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Remains on Matterhorn are Japanese climbers gone since 1970
Remains found at the foot of Switzerland's Matterhorn glacier are identified as two Japanese climbers who disappeared 45 years ago.
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