| Conquering the Mountain: A Tale of K2 To the Editor:. nytimes.com |
Argentina: Two Climbers Die on Aconcagua Two climbers, an Italian and an Argentine guide, died when a storm trapped them just below the summit of Mount Aconcagua. nytimes.com |
Climber Still Seeks Larger Meaning in His Epic Escape Aron Ralston calls it, “my accident.” But when he cut his own hand off six years ago to free himself from an 800-pound boulder, it was the beginning of a new self discovery. nytimes.com |
Teenager Climbs Everest A 17-year-old California resident who reached the summit of Mount Everest has become the youngest person to scale the tallest peaks on each of the world’s seven continents. Johnny Strange, a senior in high school who resides in Malibu, Calif., reached the top of Everest, 29,035 feet, on May 20. He reached his seventh summit on June 8 when he scaled Australia’s 7,310-foot Mount Kosciuszko. nytimes.com |
‘Julie & Julia’ for the Rugged: Tracing a Fatal Everest Trek “The Wildest Dream,” a documentary scheduled for release next spring, tracks a mountaineer’s attempt to mirror an ill-fated 1924 climbing expedition on Mount Everest. nytimes.com |