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Vallejo woman conquers Mount Kilimanjaro
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center nurse Terrie Arnold describes the last stretch of her recent climb of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa during an interview at her Vallejo home. (Mike Jory) Terrie Arnold was...
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From Rock Bottom to the Tops of the World
Carol Masheter ’83 MA, ’88 Ph.D. (Photo by Anne Marie Spencer) By Carol Masheter ’83 MA, ’88 Ph.D. Carol Masheter ’83 MA, ’88 Ph.D. has been to the tops of the world. Last year, she became the world’s...
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Man climbing Mount Everest for Illinois marriage equality
CHICAGO — A mountain climber is training to ascend Mount Everest to increase awareness for marriage equality in Illinois. Chicagoan Joe Rudy says he thinks the mountain climb isn’t much different...
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9 Year Old Boy training to climb Mt. Aconcagua
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Nine-year-old Tyler Armstrong of Yorba Linda, Calif., is climbing Mt. Baldy on August 17 as a training climb as he prepares to climb Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest peak...
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Bulgarian Girl, 10, Conquers Russian Highest Mount
A 10-year-old Bulgarian girl and her family have climbed the Caucasian highest mount Elbrus, Bulgarian Climbing and Mountaineering Federation confirmed on Tuesday earlier media reports. Ivana Pencheva...
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Heliskiing in Ski Portillo, Chile
For skiing and snowboarding aficionados, the ultimate ski-in-summer experience is a ski week in Ski Portillo, Chile. To make the ski week even more sublime, Ski Portillo offers heliskiing in the Andes...
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Steve Giesecke – A Member of an Elite Club, Climbing Seven Summits
To gain access to this elite club, he survived minus 67-degree temperatures climbing Mount Vinson, an icy 16,050-foot peak in Antarctica. He endured 100-mile-per-hour winds on Mount McKinley. And he...
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Pilot Scales World’s Tallest Peaks For Fallen
When he’s not doing pushups atop Mount Everest, Air Force Maj. Robert Marshall tests tilt-rotor Osprey aircraft for acceptance for Air Force Special Operations and the Marines. The two consuming...
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9-Year-Old California Climber Ready to Scale Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua, and...
At 9 years old, Tyler Armstrong hopes to set a new record by climbing to the top of Argentina’s Mount Aconcagua. At 22,841 feet, Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in the Western and Southern...
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Ding dong merrily up high for climbers
Giovanni Camilleri, Josef Grech, Mark Gladwish and David Gladwish in a satellite photo taken last Saturday. Four Maltese mountaineers will toast Christmas in the clouds above Argentina tomorrow, as...
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Boy, 9, youngest to climb Argentinean mountain
A nine-year-old boy has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, which at 22,841 feet is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern...
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