Climbing

In collaboration with Demand Media and Trails.com, Gear Junkie Stephen Regenold hosts a new video series. Episode No. 1 was shot in April at Mount…

Gear Junkie tests “fast and light” mountaineering gear while on the ascent of Hvannadalshnúkur, the highest volcano in Iceland.

Gear Junkie gives report No. 2 and a series of photos from Iceland and his ascent on Hvannadalshnúkur, the country’s highest peak.

Gear Junkie makes the summit on Hvannadalshnúkur, Iceland’s tallest peak.

Jamie Clarke, Scott Simper, and the rest of Expedition Hanesbrands today made the summit of Mount Everest!

This article is an inside peek at the life and career path of Ang Temba Sherpa, a leader with Expedition Hanesbrands at Mount Everest.

In Nepal, Stephen Regenold wrote on his experience with altitude and adaptation to the thin air at Mount Everest’s Base Camp, a tent city at…

For decades, the Lukla Airport has been the gateway to Nepal’s Khumbu Region and Mount Everest. It’s also often cited as one of the world’s…

A subterranean stream gurgles in the glacial ice beneath my feet. An avalanche crashes, ice pillars tumbling down, in the Khumbu Icefall above. Welcome to…

The trek to Mount Everest Base Camp is almost complete. The first wave of the Expedition Hanesbrands team, including lead climber Jamie Clarke and myself,…

Stephen Regenold explores the equipment used to communicate from the Khumbu valley to base camp and beyond.

Gear Junkie Stephen Regenold interviews climbing photographer and videographer Scott Simper.

The Gear Junkie meets expedition leader Jamie Clarke at 13,000 feet in the village of Pangboche.

It’s been a little more than two days since my last update. But in that short time, the trajectory I am on from Kathmandu to…

Holy sites, markets and temples — as well as the procurement of one oxygen mask — made up my second day on the Expedition HanesBrands…

GJ is in Kathmandu! First night: A gear shopping excursion to the city’s Thamel District. Live chickens, speeding motorbikes, and counterfeit outdoors gear included.

It’s time to head out. Time to double-check my list, kiss the kids goodbye, and get on a plane to Kathmandu!

The Italian-made Click Up is an auto-locking belay device that employs an HMS carabiner to do the hard work.

Wyoming climbing guide Frank Sanders once scaled Devils Tower 365 times in one year. Now, he’s promoting a charity to help Native Americans. The name:…

Troy Aupperle, founder of a nutrition products company, climbed the tallest mountains in the world. Ice axes and enzyme capsules helped along the way.

Sara Lingafelter, a writer and rock climber from Seattle, talks about Expedition Hanesbrands and her trip to Mount Pumori, a 23,494-foot peak on the Nepal-Tibet…