Mountain Hardwear "Hardwear Sessions" Blog

By Sam Magro, Photographer/Guide Of the routes that went up over the past few months the first winter ascent of Ravens Crack was the highlight. Stephen Koch and I skied in at 4am in January climbed 600' of ice (Prospector...

All six Operation Denali team members pose with a guide June 9 at a place named Edge of the World, located near the team's 14,000-foot high campsite. Operation Denali Edge of the World | Photo Courtesy of Marc Hoffmeister In...

Posted on Alaska Mountaineering School Blog Kirby called at about 6:30 pm Alaska Time from the summit of Denali! "The first Wounded Warrior to summit was David Shebib, followed by Marc, followed by Bob" He said it was cold and...

By Ueli Steck On Saturday, June 20 - after a journey of nearly two weeks - we reached Gasherbrum base camp (5100m). The formalities at the government in Islamabad were quickly settled. Should the political situation in Pakistan get critical,...<p><a href="http://blog.mountainhardwear.com/2009/06/basecamp_on_the_gasherbrum.html">Continue reading...</a></p>

Erik Weihenmayer and the No Barriers team recently concluded the No Barriers Festival 2009, held at Shake-A-Leg Miami, which showcased some of the most cutting-edge ideas, approaches, techniques and technologies enabling people with challenges to push through their own personal...

One of summer's quiet pleasures is the chance to escape with a good book for some relaxed reading. Most book stores stock to the brim with paperback romance novels and fantasy fiction for the beach-going crowd - but what's on...

By Jon Bowermaster, Mountain Hardwear Athlete We screened our new, big, fun, informative, high-def film - TERRA ANTARCTICA, Rediscovering the Seventh Continent - this past weekend for the very first time, at the Blue Ocean Film Festival in Savannah, Georgia,...

F*** I hate this s***. I know a lot of you have lost close friends and relatives in your lives as have I and I'm sure you can attest to this. It never gets any easier and it shouldn't. Friendship...<p><a href="http://blog.mountainhardwear.com/2009/06/living_in_our_memories.html">Continue reading...</a></p>

Fredrick Wilkinson's blog In Memory of Wade, Micah, and Jonny Friends, family, and climbers around the world are mourning the loss of Micah Dash, Wade Johnson, and Jonny Copp. The trio were last seen alive when they left their basecamp...<p><a href="http://blog.mountainhardwear.com/2009/06/to_lives_well_lived.html">Continue reading...</a></p>

Go to Adventurefilm.org/blog and watch the video put together by friends and family of Jonny, Micah and Wade. Just a two minute introduction into the lives of these three amazing humans. There is audio narration, so make sure your...