Interview with Mike Farris: Alone on Everest.

Author: Alan Arnette. Courtesy of www.alanarnette.com © reproduction prohibited without authorization. A constant debate within the climbing community is not what you climb, but how you climb. Style. It is all about style. Mike Farris found himself in the middle of this argument on the summit of Everest last spring. He climbed with style but [...]

Interview with Anne-Mari Hyryläinen: The First Finnish Woman on Everest?

Author: Alan Arnette. Courtesy of www.alanarnette.com © reproduction prohibited without authorization. Finland is usually associated with Nordic sports like ski jumping and cross country skiing. Now Anne-Mari Hyryläinen wants to make history by being the first Finnish woman to summit Everest. An accomplished marathoner, she saw Mount Everest for the first time while bicycling from [...]

ExWeb special: Women in Himalaya – Amazons fighting the Dark Ages.

Himalayan climbers risk everything: time, money, career, comfort, health, even their lives. In the case of women, the toll seemingly also includes motherhood. According to records, avid female mountaineers tend to delay childbirth and give up the passion altogether once they become mothers. The men instead, keep climbing. It seems to come down to a [...]

Himalaya 2010 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /4/ – Week in Review.

Since Alison Hargreaves, no other female Himalayan climber has opted to raise children between expeditions and the entire issue remains a red-hot taboo. Last week, ExplorersWeb threw in the grenade and asked women high altitude mountaineers for their opinions. The results are an interesting study of humans both in thin air and down the valleys. [...]