Yuichiro Miura, an 80 year old from Japan, climbed to the top of Mount Everest on Thursday 5/23/2013. He is the oldest man to have climbed the Earth’s highest mountain. Miura arrived at the summit with his 9 person team including his 43 year old son. Miura and hisContinue Reading
For most people, climbing Africa’s tallest mountain is an impossible achievement. But how about doing it without legs? For Spencer West, nothing is impossible. Or as he would put it: everything is possible. Nearly all of the 31-year-old American’s life has proven the doctors wrong. When they amputated both ofContinue Reading
HUECO TANKS STATE PARK AND HISTORIC SITE, Tex. — With a concentrated squint, Ashima Shiraishi silently sized up her first rock of the day, a menacing slab of jagged beige boulder 20 feet high, scuffed by white chalk left behind from bigger, older, more experienced climbers. Enlarge This Image ErichContinue Reading