| The Descent of Men Mountaineering has become more dangerous as the traditional expeditionary culture, which had emphasized mutual responsibility, gave way to an ethos stressing self-preservation. nytimes.com |
At 85, More Peaks to Conquer and Adventures to Seek Fred Beckey is a climbing legend, whose past is the stuff of lore, and whose plans are the stuff of mystery. 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 |
China: Body of U.S. Climber Recovered Rescuers recovered the body of a second climber on Monday after an avalanche buried a team of three American mountaineers in southwestern China last week. 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 |