VIDEO: The Freeski Crew Skis 5 Active Volcanoes in Chile, Japan and Russia Members of The Freeski Crew Marinus Höflinger, Benedikt Höflinger and Dominik Hartmann traveled the world with an objective for their 2016 movie, Escapades: to ski 5 actives volcanoes in Chile, Japan and Russia. The result of their work is really good. “It´s always impressive to climb a volcano. To ski it down afterwards makes it even better. While travelling in […] Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Avalanche Kills One German Climber, Seriously Injures Another On Europe’s Highest Mountain An avalanche on July 5th at 4:45pm on 18,510′ Mt. Elbrus, Russia has seriously injured a German climber and left another German climber missing. The missing tourist is likely deceased within the avalanche. The injured tourist suffered multiple bone fractures. “The helicopter evacuated the injured tourist, he is in serious, but stable condition. The search for the second tourist continues, the rescue […] AvyBrains | July 7, 2016 0 Comments
12-Year-Old California Boy Denied Permit To Climb Mount Everest According to Rock and Ice, 12-year-old Tyler Armstrong was denied a permit to climb Mount Everest, which ended his dream of becoming the youngest person in the world to summit Mount Everest. While waiting to hear back on his permit application on the Tibetan side, Tyler trained for the trek, assuming that his application would be accepted. Tyler is a sixth-grader from Yorba […] Industry News Chris Wallner | April 19, 2016 1 Comment
Should Kids Climb Everest? | 12-Year-Old California Boy to Climb Everest Next Month According to the Washington Post, 12-year-old Tyler Armstrong is currently waiting for the call that will grant him permission to attempt to climb Mount Everest, Earth’s highest peak. Tyler has been dreaming of climbing Everest for years and if he is granted permission and makes it to the top, he will be the youngest person ever to scale the mountain. Breaking records […] Industry News Chris Wallner | April 4, 2016 10 Comments
RIP Dick Bass, 1st to Complete the 7 Summits & Co-Founder of Snowbird, UT Dick Bass is a true American badass. He’s the guy who first came up with the idea to summit the tallest summit on each of the seven summits and he executed the project with precision. Dick was also a co-founder of the legendary Utah ski resort, Snowbird. Not many of us get the chance to do something great. Dick was able to pull off many legendary feats: DICK BASS BADASSNESS: Co-founded Snowbird ski resort in Utah in 1971 Conceived of the idea of the “Seven Summits” and completed them all on, summiting Mt. Everest on April 30th, 1985 Oldest to summit 29,028 […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 27, 2015 1 Comment
Killian Jornet Shatters 20,320-Foot Mt. McKinley, AK Speed Record in Sub-12 Hour Ascent/Descent! Spaniard Kilian Jornet is simply an animal. He’s currently making a name for himself by speed climbing all the most iconic peaks in the world. Last year, Kilian set the record on the 14,682-foot Matterhorn in Switzerland climbing it up and down in only 2 hours and 52 minutes beating the previous record by 20 minutes. Kilian also broke the […] Miles Clark | June 15, 2014 0 Comments