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When polar explorer Lonnie Dupre is on the back of a dogsled, kayaking through glacial ice, or making a first winter ascent on an Alaskan peak, the need for warm, fast-drying, weatherproof gear is a matter of life or death.
Frosted Flakes: Robots Showing Empathy, Eating Noodles and a Winter Summit of K2 Share this story Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images Well I’m glad the presidential transition went smoothly yesterday so I can’t focus on the big news in the outdoor/mountaineering world. Last Saturday at around 5:00 pm local time, Nimsdai Purja and a team of nine other Nepali Sherpas became the first group to complete a Winter Ascent of K2. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of peoples...the mountains shepherds themselves. This feat had been attempted for years without any success. K2 is...
A missing Russian-American climber died on a mountain while preparing to scale the world's 12th-highest peak, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, a spokesman for the expedition said Tuesday.