mountaineering
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Google Maps Provided Users With a ‘Potentially Fatal’ Hiking Trail on This Mountain
A few years ago, instead of leading my best friend and I through a lovely and picturesque Spanish mountain trail, Google Maps took us to an isolated field with some cows. While I learned then not trust the internet when it comes to nature, it appears that an increasing number of visitors to the Scottish…
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So You Want To Become A Mountaineer?
According to Hemingway, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” I just learned that last one. Here’s how you can too.
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How Altitude Sickness Affects Your Body And How You Can Beat It
Altitude sickness can make you dizzy, nauseous, and, in extreme cases, can even kill you. All of us here have experienced it. Here’s what we’ve learned and how you can minimise its symptoms.
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This Gear Took Us Around The World
What clothes, computer, ice axe, and backpack does a photographer and writer for an adventure travel site fall back on when he’s going to be going up against the unpredictability of nature, while travelling unsupported around the world? This is the best of the best, the stuff I took with me to adventure around the…