Mountain Safety

Outdoor Skills

Glacier hiking is travel on slow-moving bodies of ice using foot travel and simple rope teams to manage fall and crevasse risk. It sits between hillwalking and mountaineering: m...

Guides And Explainers

The 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which unfolded on and around 10–11 May 1996, resulted in the deaths of eight climbers on Everest itself. The dead included three client client...

mountain-exploration

Stories of Mount Everest combine extreme environment, technological change, and human judgment, producing enduring public fascination. This overview focuses on verified accounts...

outdoors

Colorado’s mountains draw millions of hikers each year, yet the same terrain that creates world-class scenery also produces serious, sometimes fatal, risks. Understanding how...