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I left my 3 kids behind to celebrate my 40th birthday on a Swiss mountain. Being alone was just what I needed.
Childcare wasn't an option, so traveling solo and having her husband look after the kids, was Wendy…
Wendy Altschuler
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Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings, who bought a ski mountain in Utah, snaps up more land for his public-private mountain experiment
Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is jacking up prices for season passes and selling lots for $2 mil…
Ana Altchek
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South Pole Secret! Massive network of prehistoric valleys, lakes and hills found deep under Antarctica
Antarctica might be a vast ice sheet today, but it wasn't always so. Portions of the southern conti…
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Remote mountain Kingdom of Bhutan is operating secret, state-owned Bitcoin mining facilities, report says
The remote Himalayan kingdom has never publicly announced its Bitcoin operations, but it has been s…
Polly Thompson
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What you'll encounter if you try to climb K2, the King of Mountains that terrifies even the most experienced of climbers
On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 in a single day. Here's what a typical journey …
Matthew Loh
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Explaining the controversy around Disney's Splash Mountain and the 'racist' movie that inspired the popular ride
Disney is closing Splash Mountain on Monday after renewed controversy over 'Song of the South,' whi…
Yoonji Han
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Disaster at 18,200 feet
What really happened on Denali, North America's tallest peak, on the day a 31-year-old mountaineer …
Kelsey Vlamis
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What it's like to climb up and ski down Makalu, the world's 5th-highest mountain
Adrian Ballinger became the first person to ski down Makalu, the fifth-tallest mountain in the worl…
Britney Nguyen
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Before a secret raid on an ISIS leader's mountain cave complex, US forces ran the mission at a special recreation of the target area
US special operations forces did something similar prior to the 2011 Neptune Spear raid that brough…
Jake Epstein
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A Utah ice climber died after pushing a fellow mountaineer out of the way of a falling ice column, likely saving her life, deputies say
Three mountaineers were climbing a frozen waterfall on Sunday when a massive ice column broke off, …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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A skier fell 820 feet down a mountain during an avalanche. He was saved by 2 rescuers who built him a shelter to keep him warm overnight.
Two rescuers from the Southwest Alberta Regional Search and Rescue told the CBC the skier had falle…
Aditi Bharade
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Missionaries kidnapped by a gang in Haiti sneaked past guards and used the light of the stars and moon to escape over rugged terrain, Ohio agency says
A spokesman for Christian Aid Ministries said the hostages walked for hours across rugged terrain b…
Jake Epstein
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Chugging Out To Sea: Five Coast-hugging Train Rides Along Indian Shores
Now that the winter is right upon us and the proverbial Delhi fog is fast approaching the point of …
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Mountains, rivers, trout and toddy — Manali offers you all these and more
The scorching plains, inevitably, have people craving for an easy trip to a mountainous destination…
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SEALs, Marines, and Norwegian soldiers teamed up with B-1B bombers to practice dropping bombs on new terrain
US bombers deployed to Norway for the first time ever in late February. This week, they trained wit…
Christopher Woody
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The story behind the disappearance and death of hiker Esther Dingley, who vanished on a solo mountain trek
Esther Dingley, an experienced hiker and blogger, went missing in November 2020 while on a solo tre…
Sophia Ankel
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Amazon-backed Rivian beat Tesla to the market with its electric truck. We put it to the test in the Colorado mountains.
Rivian's R1T is the first electric pickup of the modern era. It drives like nothing else, packs ton…