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Watch This Snowboarder Survive An Avalanche By Floating On An Airbag

11:15AM February 3, 2012 | Brent Rose

Meesh Hytner was doing typical pro-snowboarder things, participating in an informal backcountry competition in Colorado, when suddenly she found herself in a class-3 avalanche. Lucky for her, she was wearing an emergency airbag system, and lucky for you, there’s video. More »

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I Wish I Had The Balls To Risk My Life Like This Man

12:20AM August 27, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Swiss climber Ueli Steck is one of my personal superheroes. Watch this video of him beating a climb speed record on the Eiger — a 3670m mountain in the Bernese Alps — to understand why. More »

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This Swiss Lunatic Scaled A Mountain By Tightrope

2:20AM August 23, 2011 | Kwame Opam

Amazing. 46-year-old Freddy Nock, a Swiss stuntman, successfully walked this 1000m long cable car cable on Saturday that runs up to the summit of Bavaria’s 2743m tall Zugspitze mountain. Without a balancing pole or harness. That’s ballsy. More »

Online

Google Misplaced Biggest Mountain In Continental US

10:42AM August 10, 2011 | Mat Honan

Mt Whitney is the tallest mountain in the “lower 48″. Naturally, it’s one of the most notable landmarks in both the state of California, and the United States itself. Google Maps has no idea where it is. More »

News

Everest Climber Discovers Missing Friend Preserved In Ice

4:20AM June 25, 2011 | Seth Abramovitch

As he approached the 29,000-foot (8839m) peak of Mt Everest, climber Rodney Hogg discovered the frozen body of his old friend, Peter Kinloch – a 28-year-old from Scotland who died of frostbite and exhaustion scaling the same path just months before. He told The Mirror: More »

Software

Climb Mount Everest From Your Couch

11:40AM May 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

3D maps of Mount Everest is as old as 3D mapping itself. People see a big mountain and want to scale it… in 3D. But there’s now a 3D map of Everest that’s 400 times clearer than before. Details! More »

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Holy Freaking Hell, This Saw Cuts Through Mountains

1:20AM May 7, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Tech puts us in a state of awe all the time. Sometimes it’s the little things. The transistors. The immaculate pixels. The gorgeous lens. And then sometimes it’s a huge goddamn saw in Kazakhstan that obliterates everything in its path. More »

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What Like Falling Down A Mountain Looks Like: Terrifying

7:40AM May 6, 2011 | Brian Barrett

If you’ve ever wondered what the view is careening down a snow-driven slope with total lack of control, first chasing after a snowmobile and then being chased by one, glad tidings! You’ll never have to try it yourself for reference, thank to one terribly unfortunate Frenchman with a helmet cam. More »

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This Desert Resort Would Literally Be Carved Into The Side Of A Mountain

4:00AM May 2, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Ambitious Florida-based Oppenheim Architecture + Design have quite the design in mind for a resort in Wadi Rum, Jordan. Modeled after the mountain city of Petra, the design would see 47 lodges carved into the side of a sandstone mountain. More »

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This Is What A Resort Carved Into A Mountain Looks Like

12:44PM April 28, 2011 | Husain Sumra

What good is a resort that sticks out like a grotesque pimple in an otherwise gorgeous locale? No good, that’s what. The designers of Wadi Rum Resort are taking the opposite approach by integrating the resort into a Jordanian mountainside, which they say has “nominal impact” on the surroundings. More »