Topic
mountains
- The Central Pangean Mountains
TheCentral Pangean Mountains. If you go back to the Permian, you’d find the Appalachians, Massif Central, Atlas Mountains, and Scottish Highlands were all part of a single range cutting through the Pangean supercontin…
- Bailong Elevator
Bailong Elevator , also known as the Hundred Dragons Elevator , is a glass elevator located in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China. It is considered to be the world’s tallest outdoor elevator, standing at a heig…
- Places: Col du Galibier
The mountain stages of the Tour de France are some of my favorite events in sports. This edition of Places features a tribute to this year's 18th stage, and one of my favorite climbs of the Alps: the Col du Galibier,…
- Places: Richat Structure
I browse maps all the time, panning around in Google Earth whenever I want to look something up, favoriting things along the way. I thought I’d start documenting some of those here. The Richat Structure is a circular…
- The Deadly Logistics of Everest
Earlier this week I finished reading Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, his account of climbing Mount Everest and surviving the 1996 Everest disaster. The book reads like a thriller, giving the account of how an expedition…
- 2,650' Rappel off El Capitan
If you need your daily dose of palm sweating, check out this clip of a climber rappeling down nearly the entire height of El Capital in one motion. Free dangling by 1500' of rope 50 feet from the wall is just terrifyi…