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Powerful new helicopters and long-line rescue in the Himalaya are changing the high-altitude game and fueling the booming business of guiding. but will the sport of high-altitude climbing survive?

Everest 2012 was the most blogged, tweeted and promoted of all time. Reports of hundreds of climbers logjammed and poised for disaster dominated the news. Ten climbers did die. Has Everest reached a tipping point, or was 2012 simply big business as usual?

The story of one of alpine climbing's shining stars, who died in the Himalaya in 2009.

Shrouded in lore and the subject of epic rescues, disastrous falls and near-god experiences, Half Dome’s South Face is open again with a big new route after a 20-year hiatus.

Summer 2003: I should have enjoyed the waves of golden knobs, the cold thin air of the Sierra, and the 500 feet of granite swimming below me, but I couldn’t.

Why you may be wrong about what's right about chipping.

Kurt Cozzens peered out the window of a Turbo Cessna 182 at the ice-plastered walls of Ishawooa Canyon. A wide grin spread across his face.

I am famous on the Internet. Really. I'm sort of like a climbing version of Tila Tequila, only I'm not a My Space phenomenon who pretends to be gay.