"University of Calgary researchers have now used a century’s worth of entries from the hut’s log to illuminate how climate change is erasing historic climbs, making others more dangerous and altering the face of Canadian mountaineering."
#OnThisDay, May 29, 1953, mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest (depicted in Hillary, "Everest" s01e03, 2018)
> We will talk through the AMGA Rock Rescue Drill and hopefully cover a ton of good info regarding what to do if shit gets weird. Lowering an injured climber, counterbalance rapping to an injured climber, rapping with a climber, hauling a climber up, knot passes, etc.
I’m a huge fan of @alltrails and started using it during the pandemic when gyms were closed. Four years I haven’t been back to a gym to use the treadmill and instead take my dogs on hikes around the Seattle area every weekend.
This app realy got me to unlock a bunch of great trails and parks in my city. I love that it’s getting well deserved recognition.
#WikiLoc does that for me: an app to find trails and also to record your own. Trivial to use and with enough trails recorded in to be very useful just about anywhere – both mountain and sea side, also cities. Walking, by bicycle or even by boat. And it's free; to record one's trails, the paid option is trivially inexpensive.
WikiLoc has been around since 2007 or so. Long history. And the CEO and most of the team remains the same: outstanding stability.
Good Morning #Canada
In March of 1906, Canada's oldest outdoor club was established in Winnipeg. The Alpine Club of Canada has grown to 10,000+ members and maintains the largest network of back country huts and shelters in North America. The original founders, A.O. Wheeler and Elizabeth Parker, allowed women to join and treated them as equals, both as members and climbers.
A few images from the Tajos Campanario ridge in Spain's Sierra Nevada today. Some hard neve on sheltered slopes made for a great crampon ascent. By the time we came to the steep descent gully the snow had softened a touch to give a quick descent to the upper San Juan valley. Memorable views throughout.
My name is Alessio and I am an Italian outdoor enthusiast living in Amsterdam.
I like hiking, climbing, running, and mountaineering, but practice other sports too, including yoga and cycling.
In my free time, I am also a field tester for Suunto.
In 1998, geographer Taavi Pae realized that Estonia's second-highest "mountain," Vällamägi, was 23 feet (7m) taller than his encyclopedia said. With Soviet-era wooden skis, thrifted winter clothes, and his university's first GPS devices, he and 39 others decided to map all the almost-flat-as-a-pancake's country's 20 highest peaks in a single day. As described in Atlas Obscura, this is now an annual tradition enjoyed by hundreds.
'Audrey Salkeld, a pioneering historian who mined archives that had been neglected for decades to write about mountains like Kilimanjaro and Everest, which she also ascended, died on Oct. 11 in Bristol, England. She was 87.'
At the end of August, we tried to summit Mount Hopeless in Nelson Lakes. Great weather and a fun day out. As with elsewhere this past season, snow was too sinky and we stopped a whole 300m of vertical short of the summit (i.e. not even close).
I read #JonKrakauer's "Into Thin Air" twenty-some years ago, but scenes from it have stayed with me. Finished watching the 1997 film adaptation tonight. It's just as harrowing but in a movie way.
In hard times I always want to watch survival movies--especially #mountaineering--or anything about that climbing season.
1/2 Yesterday we scouted a planned glacier tour to decide if it is still doable for an upcoming family mountaineering weekend.
We started at Oberalppass and hiked south into the val maighels. At Piz Purtgera we left the trail and turned east, to ascent the Piz Borel.