Fossil Alpinism

The Silvretta mountain chain extends on the Austrian provinces Tyrol and Vorarlberg, as well as the Swiss canton Grisons. These regions meet...

Another beautiful - Colorado style - day. After lunch I headed up to do some 5.6-5.7 laps on the crag, and then after a few more hours at wo...

As always we had a working dinner before our quarterly board meeting, and the staff and trustees took the opportunity to belated celebrate ....

ULTRA TRAIL Tour du Mt-Blanc by Petzl-crew

"It is 50 to 1 against but we'll have a whack yet and do ourselves proud." Written in 1924, in a letter to his wife Ruth. (I ...

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Unfortunately because of our board meeting I will miss the Opening Ceremony. However I will be up at 4 AM (with the rest of the males in Ame...

On this day when the London Olympics begin, I remember vividly watching this race on TV, as well as following the sad drama with the Israe...

CLICK HERE As the Fossil alpinists get older there are some things to remember: range of motion on the rock goes first, then strength le...

CLICK HERE TO READ THE STORY OF THE MOST FAMOUS MARATHON RACE EVER. The women's 2012 Olympic marathon will be run on August 5th, and ...

The longest arête - over 13k - on any 8000 meter peak has finally been climbed. CLICK HERE TO READ THE BMC REPORT.

Having experienced poor conditions twice on the Haute Route in March I am wondering if a change of venue is in the cards. This high level ...

CLICK HERE TO READ DON KARDONG'S ADVICE (4th in 1976 Olympic marathon)

Today was the annual Ironman competition, which pretty much confines everyone to the campus, as the race course requires all available roads...

An hour on the rowing machine (watching Mission Impossible III), and then later in the day, and hour running and doing yoga at the Lake Plac...

In honor of Sixten Jernberg, the Nordic legend, who just passed away. This film clip comes courtesy of Soviet cinematographers (with Russ...

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I did nine laps with Larry yesterday, it was fun, but I need to start running less and bouldering more!

These are the types of pictures that got me into climbing ... they still make me want to book a flight to Geneva and spend the summer in Cha...

What a beautiful route, however I think the days of me being able to do this in under 48 hours are over ... Too bad ... Maybe in my next l...

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There are still ski mountaineers getting after it in North America, you do not have to go to Portillo to get your boards out. CLCIK HERE T...

In the late 1970s Mark and I climbed Reed Pinnacle Direct; me for the first time, and he for the second or third time. At 5:10a this is a su...

In anticipation of a short trip to the Sierras in August I am starting to climb a bit more regularly. I am quite fit as the aerobic volume h...

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KURTYKA WAS A LEADING PROPONENT OF FAST AND LIGHT IN THE 1970s and 1980s. This is a historically important essay written in 1988. The Art ...

My favorite climbing novel is ONE GREEN BOTTLE written by Elizabeth Coxhead in 1951. This fantastic piece of literature works on both the ...

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I started the day with a sauna, as the temperature was in the 40s at 5:30 am. Selden brought the sheep back to her pasture yesterday. By t...

Bullock and Houseman made the 6th (second fastest) ascent of this hard route on the South Face of Denali during the third week in June. CLI...

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After a delightful breakfast with Mark and Liz at the Noonmark, we visited the Mountaineer for their 40% off sale ... Everyone got a little ...

Whenever two or more fossil mountaineers get together, you can bet they will be talking gear. Time to retire the bamboo chouinard axe? Send...

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A common Treetops activity, is to teach knots, belaying skills, and climbing technique on the chimney before campers head up to our crag.

So, with Mark, Gary, and Hock, around Liz, Selden, and the youngsters - Greg and Tori - had lots to laugh about. Tori was cranking on the NC...

CLICK HERE to read the New York Times article on Lonnie Thompson and his four decades of research on alpine glaciers on mountaintops aroun...

Not a great picture, but putting on ski crampons above Disappointment Cleaver. CLICK HERE TO READ THE TRIP REPORT ON SLCSHERPA.

Twenty pages into Bill McKibben's LONG DISTANCE: a year of living strenuously, I came across this jewel: IN THE BRAIN OF A COMMITTED C...