Do you know what happened in the mountains this week? Here’s a selection of mountain news, articles, posts, videos, photos, and other cool things that we think you’d like to know about. Enjoy!
Let’s take a look at this week’s mountain news:
- Nelson And Morrison Make First Descent Of The Dream Line On 8,156-Meter Lhotse – MountainJourney.com – Congrats!
- FWT Announces 2019 Freeride World Tour Calendar – MountainJourney.com – Who’s stoked for the FWT 2019?!
- New FKT On Ice Age Trail – FastestKnownTime.com – Congrats to Annie Weiss!
- Decades of trash tourists tossed into Yellowstone geyser coughed up during eruption – KCRA.com – Gross.
- Freeride in the Death Zone: Project Cancelled till the Next Year – MountainPlanet.com – We’ll watch to see how these guys do next. year.
- Vote for the Fattest Bear: Katmai’s Annual Competition Heats Up – GearJunkie.com – Well that’s just good fun.
- Luo Jing Becomes First Chinese Woman to Climb all 14×8000’ers – ExplorersWeb.com – Cool!
- Czech climber missing on Mt Manaslu – TheHimalayanTimes.com – Cross your fingers he is found.
- Expired: Congress Fails to Reauthorize Land and Water Conservation Fund – GearJunkie.com – That’s no good.
- Spanish Climbers Make Fourth Known Ascent of the “Japanese Route” on the Mont Blanc Massif – RockAndIce.com – Congrats!
- Banff Mountain Book Competition Announces 2018 Finalists – RockAndIce.com – We want to read these books.
- Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2018 Shortlist – RockandIce.com – And these books too..
Have an awesome week!
