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The North Face Base Camp Duffel

by TonyDasilva on June 12, 2011

The North Face Base Camp duffel is the North Face’s classic bomber duffel, it’s great for any expedition with it’s alpine cut shoulder straps and it’s D-zip opening with zipper flaps.

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The Most Grueling Trip in the World Now a Film

by TonyDasilva April 20, 2011 Climb

This is going to be an awesome watch. – Tony Into the Cold: A Journey of the Soul is an award-winning feature-length documentary that follows two men’s dramatic expedition to the North Pole widely considered the toughest on Earth. As magnificent as it is inhospitable, this is an environment that is rapidly vanishing. The film [...]

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(UPDATE) Climbing Community and Wife Mourns Joe Puryear

by TonyDasilva November 6, 2010 Climb

Thumbs up and a last smile “On Wednesday October 27, David and Joe started their route on Labuche Kang,” Joe’s widow reported in a brave debrief posted on the expedition website. “It was finally a clear and beautiful day. Joe was very excited about the climb as he and David set out.” “Early on in [...]

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North Face Free Climbing Expedition With Jimmy Chin

by TonyDasilva October 12, 2010 Climb

Here is a just a taste of Jimmy Chin’s life on the road from a recent expeditionhe did with North Face, in Turkey. For those of you who may have been living in the mountains Jimmy is documenting and haven’t heard, Chin will be coming to New Haven as part of the North Face Speaker [...]

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Mountain Hardware Sponsors Injured Soldiers Climbing Expedition

by TonyDasilva October 7, 2010 Climb

Healing 11 Injured Soldiers Mountain Hardwear is sponsoring the Soldiers to the Summit expedition this Fall. The group is made up of 12 injured soldiers (wounded warriors) and 10 Everest climbers (including MHW athlete Erik Weihenmayer). The goal is to get these soldiers up one of two peaks in the Nepali Himalaya, either via snow [...]

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Sneak Preview of The Wildest Dream: Letters to Ruth

by Trailblazer August 2, 2010 Climb

National Geographic’s The Wildest Dream is coming to theaters August 6, and now that we’re closing in on the opening date, we thought we’d get you warmed up with daily sneak peeks of the upcoming film. Today’s Sneak Preview: George Mallory wrote letters often to his wife Ruth while on the 1924 expedition, leaving a [...]

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Sneak Preview of The Wildest Dream: Superstitions

by Trailblazer August 1, 2010 Climb

National Geographic’s The Wildest Dream is coming to theaters August 6, and now that we’re closing in on the opening date, we thought we’d get you warmed up with daily sneak peeks of the upcoming film. Today’s Sneak Preview: The monks who lived near Mount Everest warned Mallory that his expedition would come to a [...]

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Sneak Preview of The Wildest Dream: George Mallory’s Route to Everest

by Trailblazer July 27, 2010 Climb

National Geographic’s The Wildest Dream is coming to theaters August 6, and now that we’re closing in on the opening date, we thought we’d get you warmed up with daily sneak peeks of the upcoming film. Today’s Sneak Preview: No maps existed to guide George Mallory to Everest. In a 1921 expedition, his team discovered [...]

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Sneak Preview of The Wildest Dream: Finding George Mallory’s Body

by Trailblazer July 23, 2010 Climb

We recently posted a sneak preview of National Geographic’s The Wildest Dream (in theaters August 6), and now that we’re closing in on the opening date, we thought we’d get you even more warmed up with daily peeks at the upcoming film. Today’s sneak preview: Seventy-five years after Mallory and Irvine vanished, mountaineer Conrad Anker [...]

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“The Wildest Dream”, Searching for Mallory & Irvine, Opening 8/6

by Trailblazer July 3, 2010 Climb

One of many expeditions searching for the bodies of Mallory & Irvine, high on Everest…this time captured by Conrad Anker & sponsored by Nat Geo (“The Wildest Dream”)…opens on 8/6/10. Here’s a sneak preview: