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A long-distance love affair was the catalyst for Damien Sheehan to say farewell to a career as a physiotherapist and enter the mysterious world of wine.

The American Alpine Club has chosen a new title for its annual honor, which was previously named after mountaineering pioneers Robert L.H. and Miriam Underhill

The Robert and Miriam Underhill Award, given since 1983 to legends like Lynn Hill, Yvon Chouinard, Conrad Anker, and Alex Honnold, will be rebranded because of racist remarks made in the 1930s and 1940s by Robert L.H. Underhill, a major figure in the history of U.S. mountaineering

There is more to value in wine than just the price, as Katie Spain discovers

Dark Souls: Nightfall is Dark Souls but not as you know it. For a start, the total conversion mod's new two hour-long demo kicks off in Demon Ruins, not Undead Asylum. It begins deep within the bowels of the crumbling runic complex, not as you emerge from Quelaag's Domain. You ascend towards the Chaos Witch's lair, and not downward towards Ceaseless Discharge and its rivers of molten lava. When you do eventually climb to the apex of the spider queen's cocooned...

UpdatedWed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:14 am ET Reply The author on top of Riva Ridge with Mount Belvedere in the background (the 10th’s first objective in the Northern Appennines in Italy, February 1945). The Joe R. Sexton Lecture will take place on Thursday, May 13 at 6 p.m. in a virtual event for the Ferguson Library on Zoom. Maurice Isserman, author of Author of The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, Americas Elite Alpine Warriors will be the featured speaker...