Outdoor Sports

Climbing Mount Katahdin, N of Millinocket, ME

Highest Mountain in Maine and the Beginning of Applachian Trail The Saddle Trail from Chimney Pond rises steeply through scrubby spruce and rocky slabs to Baxter Peak on the Katahdin Cirque at 5,267 feet, the highest point in...

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Stealth Travel In The USSR: The East German Adventurers Who 'Escaped' The Other Way

Many East Germans dreamt of Disneyland and shopping in London. But an adventurous few went in the other direction, with the aim of climbing the highest peaks and rafting the wildest rivers in the Eastern Bloc. A new book tells...

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Everest veteran devoted to world's most remote places

By Sarah Jackson Herald Writer Pete Athans made history in 2002, when he reached the summit of Mount Everest for the seventh time, the first climber of non-Sherpa ethnicity to do so, earning him the title of Mr. Everest. If...

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Skiing in your own private Idaho

Skiing by day and sleeping in a network of remote yurts by night is the ideal way to experience the wilds in this underrated state We had the valley beneath Thompson Peak entirely to ourselves. A broad trench, snow-lined and...

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Take in the Canary Islands' spectacular scenery

Aren't the Canaries better known for their beaches? Certainly, but the islands also have some strikingly beautiful inland scenery – and more and more visitors are cottoning on. For the energetic, it's all about enjoying the...

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Find real serenity in Gran Canaria

As mountaineering triumphs go, it was a decidedly minor one. I didn't need crampons for the ascent to the base of Roque Nublo; just a hire car, a good pair of trainers, and a bottle of water. The 64-metre basalt sentinel rises...

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Hikers in New Hampshire must be prepared, or pay for rescue

CONCORD, N.H. — Stranded with a sprained ankle on a snow-covered mountain, Eagle Scout Scott Mason put his survival skills to work by sleeping in the crevice of a boulder and jump-starting evergreen fires with hand sanitizer gel.

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Giro 2010 Up Close: The Hellacious Final Week

Message by NONE The first fourteen stages of the 2010 Giro d'Italia are going to be the standard, delicious Giro fare. The final final seven days are going to be the stuff of exquisite cuisine, of the likes we'll be making...

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Alaska extreme-skiing pioneer enters U.S. Ski Hall of Fame

By MIKE CAMPBELL mcampbell@adn.com Published: November 6th, 2009 01:02 PM Last Modified: November 6th, 2009 01:14 PM Extreme skier Doug Coombs, founder of Valdez Heli-Ski Guides, was among eight pioneers of the sport inducted...

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Urgency And Patience (at Forbes.com)

How to balance both to achieve the best business results. One hugely successful CEO names paranoia and urgency as the defining virtues of a winning business. "The test of a first-rate intelligence," F. Scott Fitzgerald once...

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