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A hut in front of Mount Kenya, 2nd highest peak in Africa
During WWII, Felice Benuzzi with two fellow Italian prisoners of war escaped from a British prison camp to climb Mt Kenya’s Point Lenana, then sneaked back into camp after they successfully summit. Working in secret for close to eight months, they stitched together backpacks, fashioned crampons from barbed wire and an old car fender, and cold-forged ice axes out of hammers stolen from the shop. When their feat was uncovered, they were promptly tossed in solitary confinement, but only after the British commandment commended them for their “sporting effort”.
photo: Bobby Model
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Take your time, let the rivers guide you in
You know where you can find me again
I’ll be waiting here ‘till the stars fall out of the sky
- Lord Huron, In The Wind
Taken atop of Angels Landing, Zion Nat’l Park
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I stay in house and I… God, I’m still thinking about the mountain.
Lhakpa Sherpa
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Half Dome looms behind a climber, Yosemite, California.
photo: Jimmy Chin
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There’s only one way down. Photo: Jay Kolsch, Iceland http://ift.tt/1UOkzO2
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Mountain adventures by olar1 || http://ift.tt/1QOkKG8
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Hayden Kennedy & Jason Kruk in front of Aguja de L'S, Patagonia
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Colin Haley heading down while the sun rises on the South East Ridge of Cerro Torre, Patagonia
source: Alpinist | photo: Alex Honnold
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Working in the Portaledge Cubicle in Poumaka, Ua Pou Island, Marquesas Islands
photo: Keith Ladzinski
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When you want to climb multipitch in Squamish, but you have a calculus final coming up…
Flashback to a couple of years ago. I was just being silly for a photo haha- passed that final with flying colours though!
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Don’t tell my mother I did this.
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Morning approach to climb the East Buttress of Mount Whitney, California
photo: Justin Bastien
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The greatest gift of life on the mountain is time. Time to think or not think, read or not read, scribble or not scribble -- to sleep and cook and walk in the woods, to sit and stare at the shapes of the hills. I produce nothing but words; I consumer nothing but food, a little propane, a little firewood. By being utterly useless in the calculations of the culture at large I become useful, at last, to myself.
Philip Connors
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Happy Mother’s Day!
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Morgan Brechler belaying daughter Hadlie
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