Story by Will Stanhope.

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Weight: 235 grams (8.3 ounces)
This past winter in Patagonia I was fiddling with my helmet straps a few pitches below the summit of Poincenot. Forgetting to buckle up the chin strap, I started climbing again. Predictably, the helmet fell off and rocketed down a chossy gully. Back in camp, I scrounged [...]

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The year 2006 recorded Mount Everest’s deadliest season on record since 1996 (the killer season that spawned Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air).
To tell the story of the 2006 season, which made global headlines due to the troubling circumstances surrounding the death of a climber, journalist Heil, a climber himself, gives [...]

Author of post :  Blake Herrington.
Editor’s Note: Blake Herrington is one of few young climbers pushing boundaries in the remote Cascades. Last year he completed a major first on the east ridge of Mt. Goode (read the Mt. Goode´s Megaladon Ridge.), on the heels of establishing the four-peak Gunsight traverse (read the Gunsight Range Traverse). [...]