Fossil Alpinism

I just read a few of Colin Haley's entries on his blog ... big ski descents, solo of the supercouloir on Tacul, and sunny alpine south f...

This video captures a Slovenian climber deep water soloing on severely overhanging rock.

Click on the text to access a trailer for an entry in the Trento Film Festival entitled: "Wordsworth's Quest for the Sublime."...

In the late 1800s Fridtjof Nansen crossed Greenland on skis. The book he wrote on his return was quickly translated into many languages and...

Now that the snow from the recent storm has melted, our crag is drying out, and the students were climbing the easier routes this past weeke...

Every week from January to the end of April, the Corps of Guides does a video about alpine skiing and mountaineering conditions. This is th...

It has been five weeks since I did some great bouldering with Danny in the Sierras outside of Bishop. Today I hiked up Owl's Head late ...

Click on this text to watch a short video of film critic - IRENE BIGNARDI - introducing the evening. The video includes English sub-titles....

A Prayer For The Windhorse from CTL Films on Vimeo . A documentary shot on the Nepal-Tibetan border that follows a semi-nomadic tribe'...

Click on the text to access a great article by Seth Masia about skiing the classic traverse on telemark gear. The article appeared in the fa...

Held every other year, from Zermatt to Verbier, this 70K team race is the grand-daddy of ski mountaineering endurance events. It was run la...

This link gives you access to the high-speed, high definition video collection that the USST is collecting for coaches, racers, and serious...

It's almost May, however with 16-17 inches of fresh new snow - no matter how heavy - you have to get out there and make some telemark tu...

Click on the text to access the New York Times article, detailing the South Korean mountaineer who became the first female alpinist to summi...

An unexpected Spring storm dumped over a foot of snow on us last night, and it is going to snow all day as well. I was out at 6:15 AM, doin...

BD athlete Colin Haley skiing on Aiguille du Midi above Chamonix, France from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo .

Click on this text to access a fabulous virtual museum of himalayan art objects from Kashmir, to Nepal, and on into Tibet. This is an incre...

Noted Colorado climber Pat Ament has recently completed a short film that profiles both John Gill and the disciples he influenced. This week...

This weekend our two intrepid fossils will be cragging in Joshua Tree. No doubt many good pitches will be fired off. However, the main eve...

The full-length feature film, produced and directed by Frank Capra. For those that have not seen this 1930s classic you are in for a treat;...

A young Catherine Destivelle - back at the height of her competition days - solos a rock route in Mali. The video has a great soundtrack, a...

I have been in Manhattan for four days, working with trustees and doing cultivation visits. It has been very productive, but a pretty seden...

Premiere alpinist, and speed soloist, Ueli Steck soloed the "Ginat Route" on Les Droites in record time. It is hard to believe th...

With less than a year to go before we ski the famous Haute Route, consider this the first in a series of informational updates. If you click...

Schuss from dave heath on Vimeo . Enclosed is a great five minute video slideshow - set to fantastic music - with wonderful black and whit...

Click on the text to access this morning's article in the New York Times about the US Ski Team. The focus of the article was on the Exe...

I put all put two pairs of skis away. I kept a pair of waxless rock skis and a pair of all-terrain ski mountaineering boards handy ... to k...

Maybe next time when I travel to Chamonix for some alpine adventures, I can bag this route. It looks like a superb mountaineering route, ma...

Unless I head over to Tuckermans Ravine with the NCSers at the beginning of May, this was probably it for my skiing. I hiked up the lower s...

At 20h28 minutes & 5 seconds: The RECORD from Chamonix to Zermatt was beaten Two french army members, Laurent FABRE and Yann GACHET arri...

With the ice climbing and telemark season all but over, I thought it appropriate to do a quote related to skiing. In talking about ski moun...

Click on this text to access an excellent video of the national ski mountaineering championships in Jackson Hole. These folks look a notch...

Click on this text to access a link to an article and short video coverage of this recent event in the Cordillera Blanca.

Click on this text to access an exciting video ... a cross between a cross country sprint and ski cross. This is incredibly exciting, and I...

Last year on the NCS nordic team, Adam was something of an older mentor for Lucy. He graduated and went to Proctor Academy, although he has...

Alpinists at the top of the food chain have a long history of "putting their money where their mouth is," so to speak. Messner de...

It is going to be a beautiful day of spring skiing with temperatures in the 60s. The Camp and School Ski reunion has gone well, and after a...

I have enclosed the historic British documentary about the climbing of Everest in 1953. As we all know Hillary and Tenzing were successful,...

If you have ever skied Alta, and have used the rope tow to get to over to Albion Basin you have to click on this text and watch this 59 seco...

Nick and Larry took their telemark gear, and led our more adventurous alumni onto the faces and chutes, just as fast as they were opened by ...

Yesterday's ravels started at 2:30 AM as we drove to Burlington. However, 12 hours later we were taking advantage of the late afternoon...

This superb video covers Ueli Steck - speed record holder for the three great north faces of the Alps - and his recent climbing trip to Scot...

Today our ski hill shut down. However, I did laps for almost an hour up-and-down the hill, so there is still plenty of snow cover. The sl...

As always click on the image to enlarge the photograph. No doubt most of us Fossils occasionally pull our hair out (what little there is), w...

In the past 6-7 months the Fossil blog has had over 2,000 viewings, and we have had readers from 57 different countries. From America to Th...

Happy Easter. The Keene Valley church has a long tradition of having an outdoor, sunrise service on Easter, and then all congregating at th...

The nordic center is closed, however the coverage is still quite good. I did a classical 7.5K ski at 6 PM and the temperatures were still i...

The Delta Phi team got to together for some skiing and planning at Killington. The temperatures were balmy - almost 80 degrees - and spirit...

Brian - I call him the coach - from High Peaks Cyclery toured up the Whiteface toll road with his son Colin. After the summit, they post-ho...

Click on this text to access a video about the 2010 Pierra Menta ski mountaineering race. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Pierr...