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Babu Sherpa: 21 Hours on Top of Mount Everest
In May 1999, Mountain Hardwear built a custom expedition tent for Babu Chiri Sherpa in just days. That same month, Babu arrived in the Himalayas, summited Everest and proceeded to camp on top for 21 hours. This impressive act has...
Technology Is On My Side!
By Pat Deavoll I had the first inkling something was wrong about seven years ago. My knees and ankles started to hurt walking down the hard ice of the Hooker glacier, and I didn't want to jump crevasses, preferring to...
The Jimmy Skid Rig
By Will Meinen After the third winter of efforts, it's finally done. The Jimmy Skid Rig has been climbed. I still can't believe it as I sit here and try to figure out how to sum it up for a...
Mugs Stump Award Funds Pakistan Karakorum Expedition
Doug Chabot, a Montrail athlete, received a 2009 Mugs Stump Award for an 2-person expedition to Kuk Sar II, a peak in the Pakistan Karakorum. Doug and his partner Bruce Miller will head to Pakistan in late summer. Here, Doug...
Back to the Matterhorn: Speed Record on the Schmid-Route
Burgdorf, Switzerland, January 20, 2009 Ueli Steck finds himself in perfect physical conditions. For the past few weeks, the weather in the Alps has been beautiful and the conditions on the great Northfaces in the Alps have been great ....
MHW Tents On Top of the World
The nice guys behind the Altitude Junkies, a guide service that specializes in Himalayan expeditions, sent us these photographs from a recent Everest trip. We thought they were quite nice, so we wanted to share them with you. All photographs...
The Abandonment of Gerard McDonnell
By Freddie Wilkinson One month ago, I wrote "Heros in Fine-print", which highlighted the actions of two Sherpas who were involved in rescuing several survivors of the K2 tragedy. In subsequent interviews with them, some new information has come to...
Calling All Blog Junkies
By Freddie Wilkinson Blog junkies, internet addicts, and virtual alpinists everywhere should take note of my friend and neighbor Kevin Mahoney's newly revised internet site, www.NewHampshireIceclimbing.com. The site is the home-page to Kevin's guide service, Mahoney Alpine Adventures. But it's...
Heros in Fine Print
By Freddie Wilkinson "On the mountain there were no heroes," K2 survivor Cas van de Gevel was recently quoted as saying in Outside Magazine, " just an unspoken agreement that you help as much as you can." Outside and Men's...
Kantega!
By Freddie Wilkinson We New Hampshire climbers like to think we're used to tough conditions. Brittle ice, no protection, minus ten degrees? Nooo proooblem... that's just like home. The thing is, you get so used to not having fun when...
Success on India's Manikaran Spires
MHW athletes Freddie Wilkinson, Janet Bergman, and Pat Goodman, along with climber/photographer Ben Ditto, tackled peak 5394 of India's Manikaran Spires. Climbing.com published this account of the group's likely first ascent. "The snowy south face of peak 5394....
Greetings from Dharamsala
By Janet Bergman I am writing with scabs on the backs of my hands and legs still sore, so the short of it is, yes, we did get to climb! As luck has it, I do not have to get...
Guiding the Bugaboos
By Dawn Glanc The Bugaboos, located in British Columbia, have been a place that I have read and heard about for years. Every time I saw a photo of the splitter granite spires, I would dream of climbing them....
Return from Beka Brakkai Chhok
By Pat Deavoll Trying to justify expedition climbing in the Greater Ranges to a non climber is sometimes hard, but to justify travelling half the way around the world to fail for the second time on a chosen peak can...
Ben Clark on TV
Last week, Telluride, Colorado's Plum TV aired an interview with Ben Clark. On the interview, Ben discusses his recent trip to Annapurnia IV. Watch the interview....
The Owls
By Janet Bergman The owls woke me as they called loudly to each other, just a few feet outside of our loft window in New Hampshire. The sound of their cooing is eerie, but comforting. Sitting up to look out...
Tenth Wedding Anniversary on Tallac
View Mat's photos on Flickr By Mat Peterson, Mountain Hardwear Planning Team My wife and I made the quick drive up to Lake Tahoe to celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary and renew our vows at the top of Mount...
Big Expedition Ends
By Kit Herrod The metaphor for cancer research is complete. There are more unclimbed mountains to challenge. Late on Saturday, our team of Farmer, Dawn, Kevin and Bayard on the Big Expedition for Cancer Research determined that they had reached...
Magical Alaska
View Julia's photographs from Alaska By Julia Niles There is something about Alaska that is magical. Alaska is a warm, gooey amoeba that envelops you sucking you in to great times and good people. Strangers are unreasonably friendly and...
In Times Square...
By Kit Herrod The Big Expedition, up in lights over NYC's Times Square....