Mt. Everest Summited Today Via the South for the First Time in 3 Years “9 Sherpa using supplemental oxygen became the first to summit on the South Side of Everest in the past 3 years. Lots of friends in the fixing team, and they called us from the summit at 5pm, exhilarated. Congratulations!” – Adrian Ballinger, Alpenglow Expeditions In 2015, on April 25th a 7.8-magnitude caused an avalanche that killed 18 climbers and […] Industry News CragBrains | May 11, 2016 0 Comments
Truck-Sized Boulders Smash Into Semitruck & Close Colorado’s I-70 Highway Indefinitely Large boulders came down from a cliffside onto cars and trucks on I-70 at 2:30pm yesterday near Glenwood Springs, CO. A second rock slide came down at 10pm yesterday. The road has been closed indefinitely since that time. The detour around I-70 is 213-miles long and takes about 4 hours to travel. A semitruck was hit by the boulders in […] CragBrains | February 16, 2016 0 Comments
STORY: Getting Your Crampons Stolen in the “Death Zone” on K2… & That’s Just The Beginning… This guy summited K2, the 2nd highest mountain on Earth and the hardest mountain to climb in the world, in 2007 and made it back to High Camp after 23 hours of climbing. When he arrived back at high camp at 26,000-feet (the Death Zone), he found an emaciated climber passed out in the snow. He and his climbing partners […] CragBrains | February 12, 2016 1 Comment
Mountain Climber Dies After Falling in Crevasse on Oregon’s 2nd Highest Peak A 32-year-old mountain climber died after falling into a crevasse on 10,497-foot Mt. Jefferson in Oregon on Sunday. Thomas Fountain and his wife, Alison, 29, were climbing Jefferson, Oregon’s 2nd highest peak, on Sunday when the Thomas fell and slid 500-feet into a crevasse at 8,800-feet in very challenging terrain. Allison notified the authorities via text messages and was able […] Industry News CragBrains | December 4, 2015 0 Comments
Valley Uprising: Yosemite’s ROWDY Rock Climbing Revolution I just watched this trailer and it makes we wanna do something crazy. I feel a bit of pride as well that the big wall revolution and the modern rock climbing comes from Yosemite, California. As skiers and riders, we can relate to these guys, can’t we? “Living on the fringes of society,” “Storming the castle,” “Not caring about the status quo.” Well, maybe modern day ski bums can’t exactly understand, but the original ski bums of the 60s and 70s certainly could. There are more than just a few parallels […] Featured Video CragBrains | June 17, 2014 2 Comments
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