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Seattle-based Alpine Ascents International guide Michael Horst accomplished something of mountaineering’s impossible when, in mid-May 2011, he summited both Mount Everest and nearby Lhotse in under 21 hours — becoming

Anything could happen. Knowing that is the strange thrill of clicking into skis atop the planet’s fourth-highest mountain.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The body of a famed U.S. extreme skier Hilaree Nelson, a Colorado College graduate who went missing this week after falling from the world’s eighth-highest mountain,

Tetsuhiko Endo is The Inertia's Surf Editor. Ted has never been to Hawai’i, surfs with a hunch, and can count the number of times he has pulled out of barrels. The only thing that qualifies him to write about surfing is that he grew up right next to the world headquarters of Hollister, in Columbus, Ohio. And his mind is slightly askew. That helps things along. He also writes for National Geographic, the New York Times, Popular Science, SURFER Magazine, The Surfer’s Path, Huck, and 3sese...