The Vatnajökull Icecap

The best mode of travel on the glacier is 4WD – pimped out land cruisers with enormous snow tyres designed to run at low pressure (5psi) to charge across the vast flat wilderness. Nothing beats glacier travel at 30km/h in the air-conditioned comfort of a 4x4. See that crevasse? No problem – we’ll just drive over it!

Another Way
I went to Chamonix recently, in part to learn how alpinism was developing in Europe and how it compared to climbing in New Zealand...

"None of the good climbers climb with leashes anymore", Herve explained. "It doesn't matter if they are on a 1000m face, we just go leashless. There are more advantages this way."...

Author: Glenn Pennycook

Home on the range
Yeti hunter, politician and for more than 30 years the world's most flamboyant mountaineer, Reinhold Messner pioneered solo ascents without oxygen in the Himalayas. But his life has been blighted by controversies. Here he reflects on his remarkable career

A LOGICAL DILEMMA
When “logic” is seen as an ethical failure, one climber’s “progress” becomes another’s “regression”—or worse, a theft from the future of adventure.

Herewith, another installment in the eternal argument on bolts and how they’re placed...

Author: John Halin III, Hood Reaver, USA