Features – unique photographic opportunities in the spectacular high Himalaya (including a Sherpa’s-eye view of four of Nepal’s 8000m peaks), expert local guides, western doctor, and comfortable, warm tea-house accommodation.
Level of Fitness – Good, should be able to walk up steep hills. Some long days.
Altitude – much of the trek will be at and above [...]

Story by Will Stanhope.

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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 [...]

Author of post :  Blake Herrington.
Editor’s Note: Blake Herrington is one of few young climbers pushing boundaries in the remote Cascades. He completed a major first on the east ridge of Mt. Goode (read the Mt. Goode´s Megaladon Ridge.). Below, Herrington tells of his expedition, to the four-peak Gunsight traverse.
In early July, Dan Hilden and [...]