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Kieran Creevy and Lisa Paarvio give you some recipes to spice up your base camp and bivies. Here's the first installment of high cuisine: tasty local creations for the mountain athlete.

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Drawing on interviews, diaries and unpublished accounts, Mick Conefrey begins The Last Great Mountain: The First Ascent of Kanchenjunga in 1905 with the first, disastrous attempt on the mountain by a team led by Aleister Crowley, explores the three dramatic German expeditions of the the late 1920s and brings it all to a climax 50 years later with the first ascent by Joe Brown and George Band.

In his classic 1961 memoir of the mountaineering genre, Conquistadors of the Useless, Lionel Terray recounts many of his most famous climbs, including the North Face of the Eiger.

The hard part isn't the intent. The hard part is doing it every single time.

Check out Delaney Miller's author page.

Writing and climbing might have more in common than you think.

Athletes in isolation during the coronavirus crisis. A limited-run column from R&I columnist Owen Clarke. Follow along as he checks in with top climbers to see what they are up to in their quarantine. This week: Nina Caprez.

Christine Boskoff was the leading American woman on  8,000 meter peaks in the 1990s and early 2000s, before her death on a mountain in China in 2006. Now, author Johanna Garton has finally told Boskoff's full story in Edge of the Map.

Athletes in isolation during the coronavirus crisis. A new limited-run column from R&I columnist Owen Clarke. Follow along as he checks in with top climbers to see what they are up to in their quarantine. This week: Will Gadd.