The current record for climbing all of the world’s 14 highest mountains in the shortest amount of time is 7 years, 10 months, and 6 days by Korean mountaineer Kim Chang-ho. That is an astonishingly short amount of time for a feat like that; roughly two climbs that could be considered the high point of […]
When gear takes on a story of its own, it can be awfully hard to part with. See the full post >
Over the past 70 years, Canada’s average land temperature has increased by 3 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just the average too. Temperatures are up even more in the northern sweep of the country. In comparison, the rest of the world’s surface area has warmed by roughly 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 140 years. This, according […]
12-year-old Turner Liotta wanted to be the youngest person to climb the highest peak in each state. Now he just wants to climb with his dad. See the full post >
Geoffrey Holstad, a designer for Patagonia and a founder of the very cool outdoor artist-in-residency program Cabin-Time, also maintains one of the most charmingly simple websites on the internet. It’s called Watch This in a Yurt, and it’s nothing more than a simple Google Doc that he’s shared with the entire world. The site is […]
For Katie Arnold, being in motion is simply a natural state of being. See the full post >
Thoreau would envy this small cabin. It’s in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, near the winding Marys River, not far from the town of Corvalis and Oregon State University. Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosophy professor at OSU commissioned this tiny house as a writing studio. She tapped her daughter, an architect who also teaches at OSU and […]
Dean Nicholson met his new best friend on a European cycling adventure. The welder had quit his job and was spending months riding his bike from Scotland to, well, wherever he wanted. While in Bosnia one day he heard a soft mewing while taking a break and saw a tiny kitten approaching him. Nicholson spent […]
An Auburn University study showed that areas with higher elevations had higher instances of mental health problems. See the full post >
Patagonia cracks down on the uniform of tech bros and venture capitalist titans. See the full post >