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Inside a Vail Woman’s Harrowing Pursuit of the World’s Highest Mountains
A fatal race made Tracee Metcalfe the closest to becoming the first American woman to summit all of the world’s 8,000-meter ...
Three books capture the stories of mountaineering’s tragic past and lucrative present
It comes as something of a surprise that the history of a pursuit that seems to uniquely combine risk and vanity should be so ...
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Extreme athlete Aidan Hyman on surviving a near-death experience, traveling the world & climbing K2
That carefree motto–“I thought I would give it a shot”–has served Hyman well in his 21 years of life. His knack for adventure ...
Introducing Extreme: Peak Danger
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela introduces Extreme: Peak Danger. A mountain of trouble. In August 2008, around 30 climbers took on ...
Why do people risk their lives to summit the world's deadliest mountains?
Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela explores life, love and death on Earth's second-tallest peak in the new season of Extreme.