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Visitors haul their gear more than a mile to reach cabins at Tettegouche State Park, and that's precisely what makes the cabins so special. ... By GREG BREINING, Special to the Star Tribune IF YOU GO Plan ahead or be flexible if you hope to reserve one of the four...
MOUTAINEERING began as a sport in 1854, when Sir Alfred Wills climbed the Wetterhorn (3,701m), in the Swiss Alps. Mind you, a woman named Marie Paradis had got to the top of Mont Blanc (4,801m) 46 years earlier. However, early male climbers were determined to keep the mountains to themselves and...
It was an afternoon of fun that ended tragically for a Salt Lake man. 23-year-old Robert Clayton plummeted 30 feet to his death after falling off a rope swing in Ferguson Canyon. It's an accident that rescuers worry will happen again as more Utahns get outside this summer. It's not the first time...
Scotland's oldest mountaineering club for women will today mark its 100th anniversary by climbing one of the country's most famous peaks in costumes from throughout its century. The Ladies Scottish Climbing Club (LSCC) was founded in 1908 by three middle class women frustrated at being excluded...
The summit of Kilimanjaro, at 20-thousand feet is the highest point in Africa. A patch of ice under the sizzling sun that has beckoned generations of climbers. Including, just this month, Binghamton Financial Advisor Scott Freeman. His 20-year climbing career started in the Adirondacks, moved up...
