He screams like a ninja on overhanging stone. He sweeps out a dusty swimming pool at a house in Spain. In a new video, “Chris Sharma: Intrinsic,” we get a peek inside the life of arguably the world’s best rock climber.
“Create real social change through the power of rock climbing and the power of adventure.” That’s the goal of a unique project being promoted by BEYONDgear, a social enterprise working to raise funds for an ambitious project in the favelas slums of Rio de Janeiro.
Gannett Peak in Wyoming takes fully-equipped hikers three days to climb and descend. Ultra-runner Anton Krupicka recently conquered the peak in under 9 hours with no gear and not even a pack on his back.
Filed by the National Park news service, this report highlights the rescue of a climber high on El Capitan last week by the YOSAR (Yosemite Search and Rescue) team. It’s an eye-opening look at what these uber-rangers undertake to keep adventurers safe.
Rope up and get ready to climb. The traveling REEL ROCK 7 film fest is coming to a city near you. The three-minute trailer posted here is enough to make your palms sweaty just watching…
Called the world’s first harness for pregnant climbers, the Mountain Mama by Mad Rock offers support and a design to accommodate the “big with child” region as a woman ostensibly pulls down at a crag or indoor wall.
For episode No. 4 in our “Off The Map” video series, we travel to western Minnesota in search of some of the most obscure rock climbing on the continent. “Bouldering the Great Plains” highlights this rare rock as well as the rare climbers who pursue it!
Huge industrial pipes that once carried water from a mountain lake jut off the face of a 1,200-foot rock wall near Tyssedal, Norway. Last week our writer climbed through the ruins on an adventure experience unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
This week, to shoot an episode of our “Off The Map” series, the GearJunkie crew packed up a stationwagon and stacked bouldering pads atop a Yakima cargo basket in search of some of the most obscure rock climbing on the continent.
Climbing and outdoor brand Black Diamond Inc. announced it will acquire POC Sweden AB, a Stockholm-based maker of helmets and protective gear for action sports. The move will help ensconce BD in the “gravity sports” space.
A plan to climb Mount Everest’s West Ridge route has been canceled due to unsafe climbing conditions. Now Conrad Anker and other National Geographic Expedition members turn attention to the peak’s trade route, the Southeast Ridge, with summit pushes ramping up as we write.
A crew of GearJunkie editors scaled Shasta’s 14,179-foot flank on a Peaks for Peace charity climb. Some serious product testing took place along the way, including new packs, skis, a split-board, and a few “technical” sombreros to block the sun.
In homage to the groundbreaking American Mt. Everest Expedition in 1963, this spring Eddie Bauer is outfitting an expedition with hopes to summit the mountain via the South Col and the little-climbed West Ridge.
Today we officially launch our EPIC award to highlight adventurers, athletes, gear designers, activists, and artists who affect notable change in the outdoors world. And the first winners are. . .
You read the headline right. Our Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers squad last month staked its claim on a previously unclimbed pair of mountain passes in remote Patagonia. We named them “Paso GearJunkie” and “Paso YogaSlackers.”
A new National Geographic Adventure microsite, “Everest 2012,” covers this spring’s climbing season in Nepal. GearJunkie collaborated with Nat Geo to create a unique look at the gear used to climb the world’s tallest peak.
A fighter jet purportedly once rocketed through this immense limestone arch in China. Rock&Ice magazine covers this developing mega-crag, called the Gétù Valley, for its 200th issue.
“It’s in the books. The kid and team summit with all fingers and toes.” Those were the brief words this past weekend transmitted from Antarctica to the world telling the success of a 15-year-old kid, Jordan Romero, who has now climbed the world’s fabled Seven Summits.
In a three-month wear test, we’ve evaluated a new pair of sports glasses from Adidas Eyewear on a dozen adventures in conditions from snow to hot summer sun. Gear Junkie editor Stephen Regenold explains the unique proposition and performance attributes of the high-end Adidas shades.
“How fast and light can Gear Junkie go?” That’s the name of our new micro-site channel and the premise of a video series we’re launching this fall. The first episode, on climbing Kings Peak in Utah, goes live today.
To launch an audacious project of climbing 150 mountains around the planet in conjunction with its 150-year anniversary, Mammut hosted a gathering in the Swiss Alps complete with peak-bagging as well as a swanky party on a glacier. We sent T.C. Worley to report on the scene.
Stepping into the mountaineering record books, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner last week became the first woman to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without using supplementary oxygen. We have the story plus photos from National Geographic of the ascent.
In early August, the GearJunkie crew climbed the 13,528-foot Kings Peak in Utah’s remote Uinta Range. This trip report and gear wrap-up includes details on the climb, photos and an interactive GPS map of the route to the top!
In another example of the main-streaming of the toe-shoe genre, this week Fila USA signed Alex Puccio, a rising bouldering star, to a multi-year endorsement agreement.
A line of new carabiners from Black Diamond Equipment will use “magnetic fields” instead of screw gates or spring-loaded sleeves to lock shut.
Mike Horn, one of the world’s great explorers, worked with Wenger to create a custom Swiss Army Knife that now bears his name. This article dissects the Wenger Mike Horn Knife via a one-on-one interview with the man himself.
Gear Junkie is in the Austrian Alps this week. Here is a trip report, including photos and an interactive map, from his ascent of a famous peak in the Kaisergebirge mountain range of the Eastern Alps.
Last summer, Gear Junkie put a made-for-the-mountains running shoe to the test on the 15-mile Jupiter Peak Steeplechase race in Utah. The shoe, La Sportiva’s Crosslite model, has since proved its worth in a variety of trail-running environments.
Handheld cartridge air pumps are usually reserved for bike tires. But Utah-based Klymit thinks it’s found a better way to insulate jackets and sleeping pads with tiny cartridges or argon gas. Our contributor interviews the company founder and CEO.
Skinny but stout, the new ultralight trekking poles from Black Diamond borrow tricks from probe poles used in avalanche rescue. Gear Junkie goes on a test trek.
Need off-the-grid energy? Our writer, a professional photographer and adventurer, conducted a long-term test of Goal Zero’s portable solar power kit, the Sherpa 120, which is touted to offer the equivalent output to tens of thousands of AA batteries. Plug it in!
No, thanks.
