Just like many high-level athletes, the world’s top ski mountaineers are absolute gear nerds. When it comes to pointing your ...

Doug Pope, search manager with North Shore Rescue, said spring is "probably the most dangerous time of year" in the mountains ...

Thoughts on over or under-committing to a single turn. Could a telemark skier possibly return to locking their heel to a ski?

The TSA is known for its strict rules about what you can take on a plane. But this one item is shockingly allowed, despite ...

Maybe you can blame it on Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealander who along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to summit Mount Everest in 1953. Ever since then, that other “Land Down ...

The speed record on “The Naked Edge” has been another multi-year project for a cadre of local speedsters. On March 28, local Kate Kelleghan and French ace, Laura Pineau, cut 32 seconds off the ...

While you can get away with a short tour in a boot without walking more or a hybrid binding ... Again, depending on your objective, you might need crampons, ski crampons, and ice axes as well. Having ...

SILVERTON – When the pandemic shut down the world in 2020, Griff Pinto was 8 and made a big decision: It was time to go ...

The friction between ice and bedrock smoothed the rock’s ... switching from hiking boots to crampons to cross-country skis as the terrain changes. Ben Huff In a few days, the students working ...

House followed the upper part with a single crampon and boot shell after dropping one from the third bivy ... Unable to return to their skis, the pair eventually escaped across the ice cap, wading ...