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:
- Fire Ravages Chamonix’s Grands Montets Cable Car – TetonGravity.com – Scary fire in Chamonix Cable Car. Yikes!
- Federal, state agencies announce plan to move goats to Cascades via helicopter – TheOlympian.com – These goats are getting their first helicopter ride.
- Fall Foliage Prediction Map – SmokyMountains.com – Don’t miss the colors of Fall!
- Last Glacier Standing in Venezuela – EarthObservatory.NASA.gov – Did you know Venezuela had glaciers?
- Billings backpacker completes personal challenge: to hike to 330 lakes in the Beartooths – BozemanDailyChronicle.com – The Beartooths are awesome. And so is this guy.
- Ski Areas In The Canadian Rockies Are Getting Snow! Up to 20″ Of Snow Forecasted – UnofficialNetworks.com – It snow a bit this week. Winter is coming!
- ‘Spectacular’ mummified ice age wolf pup, caribou calf found at Yukon mine sites – CBC.ca – What a cool find.
- France to impose daily cap of 214 climbers on Mont Blanc – MountainPlanet.com – New limits on Mont Blanc.
- Manaslu: Expeditions Unable to Get Supplies; Helicopter Crash Kills 6 – RockAndIce.com – A logistical nightmare.
- Liv Sansoz completes the tour of the 82 Quattromila of the Alps – PlanetMountain.com – Congrats!
- A Second New Route – Sheila Face Aoraki/Mount Cook – AlpineTeam.co.nz – Two new lines on Aoraki/Mount Cook. Sweet!
- Why John Kircher Decided To Sell Washington’s Crystal Mountain – REI.com – A bit of insight into the sale of Crystal to Alterra.
- Hiker Likely Killed By Cougar: First Fatal Mountain Lion Attack in Oregon – GearJunkie.com – Sad news near Mount Hood.
- Secretary Zinke and the Great Public Lands Wholesale – OutsideOnline.com – Thoughts?
- China Building the World’s Largest Indoor Ski Resort in Shanghai – SnowBrains.com – Do you like to ski indoors?
- New Route on the Miage Face of Mont Blanc – ExplorersWeb.com – Congrats to Michael Rinn and Simon Richardson. This is the 1st new route on the Mont Blanc Massif since 1989.
- Study Finds That “Snow Is Disappearing From Switzerland” – UnofficialNetworks.com – Well that’s no good at all.
- New Satellite Imagery Shows Antarctica in Pinpoint Detail – ExplorersWeb.com – Is Antarctica the best-mapped continent on earth?
Have an awesome week!
