The Forced Relocation of Everest Base Camp Everest’s base camp is moving—rising global temperatures and a thinning glacier, the culprits. The Nepalese government is moving the outpost which houses up to 1,500 people during peak season and produces over 1,000 gallons of human urine a day because warming temperatures are causing the Khumbu Glacier it sets on to melt, making the camp unsafe due to rapidly forming, […] Climbing Martin Kuprianowicz | June 22, 2022 0 Comments
Jeremy Jones Riding Possibly the Steepest Spine Ever Jeremy Jones is undoubtedly one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, big mountain snowboarder of all time. From slaying lines in Alaska to remote high alpine peaks in Chamonix, Nepal, and the world over Jones has done it all. In this moment, Jeremy Jones bags an incredibly steep spine in Nepal. “I think this is probably the highest and burliest spine line ever done on a snowboard,” says photographer Andrew Miller. Miller had met snowboarder Jeremy Jones, one of our Adventurers of the Year, two weeks earlier while testing snowboards in Chile. Soon after, Miller heard from Jones. “I got a call from Jeremy […] SnowBrains | March 5, 2014 2 Comments
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