“Kyle and Scott have not been seen since Monday, August 22… On Sunday, August 28, family and friends initiated a search and rescue effort, assisted by local authorities and another climbing team on the Choktoi. Please help these boys. Death is eminent if we cannot help… With the unreliable weather we are needing more money everyday. Please consider the urgency
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What if the best climber out there was not the strongest? Not the most daring. Not the most heavily sponsored. Not the most photographed or written about. Not the guy or gal with the most social media followers, or OR shows under his or her belt. What if the best climber was someone who was right under your nose, all along? Someone
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Miranda Oakley on Hydraulic Pump (5.12+) Indian Creek. [Photo] Austin Siadak In November 2014, Alpinist Magazine ran a newswire about Chantel Astorga’s attempts to become the first female to solo the nose in a day. She came painfully close, but never broke the mark… Last year, Chantel’s time of 24:39 was still the mark to beat. Miranda decided to give
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SALT LAKE CITY – Outdoors shoppers and schwag enthusiasts were stunned today when the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah closed it’s doors on the Outdoor Retailer show, following a strike at a plaid factory in Bangladesh. “We take this as a very serious act of terrorism,” the Press Correspondent for the show explained. “Plaid is at the heart and the soul
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