If you want to see something exciting to get your adrenaline up, check out the trailer for the REEL Rock Film Festival! In addition to the Banff Film Festival’s Radical Reels Tour, the REEL Rock Film Festival is another series of exciting short films that will be touring the U.S. this fall! These films are …
I have read many amazing stories about men and women who conquer the world’s greatest peaks – from the most famous American mountaineer Ed Viesturs to the blind man Erik Weinhenmayer and the Korean woman Oh Eun Sun. Most recently I read the story of Vicky Jack, the oldest British woman to climb Mt. Everest. …
If you’ve read my blog for awhile, then you probably are already familiar with the most famous American mountaineer, Ed Viesturs. Ed has climbed all 14 of the world’s highest peaks, and what is even more amazing is that he did so without supplemental oxygen! Himalayan Quest was published in 2003, and is a compilation …
If you have a fascination with adventure, and love to read stories about climbing Kilimanjaro (without a permit!), summiting K2, and exploring the Andes, then you’ll enjoy this book. Check out my review of Risking Adventure: Mountaineering Journeys Around the World. Do you agree?
Do you want to know what happens to the human body at high altitudes? And the scientific detail behind it? NOVA followed a group of climbers to Mt. McKinley (known as Denali) and produced this highly educational film. Here’s my full review of Nova: Deadly Ascent.
Do you want one book that will cover almost everything you’ll ever need to know about hiking, backpacking, snow travel, rock climbing, and technical climbing? Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills is it! While I can’t say I’ve read the sections about technical climbing (I don’t plan on climbing Everest or K2 any time soon!), …
As you probably saw in my blog post a couple of months ago, Touching the Void is an amazing and hard to believe story of two young mountaineers who came face to face with death in the Peruvian Andes. While I prefered the book to the movie, the movie has the added benefit of interviews …
I love IMAX movies. As a kid my mom used to take my brother and me to see them, and I can vividly remembering soaring over the Serengeti and space walking! Or at least that’s what it felt like when I watched the films. In 1996, a team of climbers led by Ed Viesturs traveled …
This bestselling book is a page turner – you won’t want to set it down! When he made the decision to climb Everest in 1996, Jon Krakauer was a journalist for Outside magazine (a Hiking Lady favorite!). Little did he expect that 1996 would result in the most tragic year on Everest with 15 deaths. …
World class mountaineer Ed Viesturs is coming out with a new book in October called “K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain.” Ed is the first American climber to summit all 14 of the world’s 8000-meter (26,200 ft) peaks! I recently watched Ed interviewed on The Colbert Report, and you may recall …