My Epic: Beaned on Everest
A dropped oxygen canister at 27,000 feet.
A dropped oxygen canister at 27,000 feet.
150-Footer on the Nose.
The difference between luck and misfortune is as thin as a crack in the ice.
A shattered leg, a new direction.
Forbidden to climb, two soldiers go rogue.
Turns out trad isn’t the same as sport climbing.
Unbelievable best-case scenario, in the absolute worst case.
Scottish climber Robbie Phillips enters the White Room on the classic Deep Cut Chimney (4 IV) of Hell’s Lum, a 2,700-foot peak in the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands.
“Will it go trad?” my climbing buddy asked. “Hmmm, I hadn’t thought of that. Wonder if it could?” I wanted all my hard work of route developing to pay off. I wanted something that others could climb, that was the best it could be.
A narrow escape in the Tetons.