Gimmelwald Cat Guides an Injured Hiker Down a Swiss Alps Trail
A hiker with a sprained ankle, a closed path above Gimmelwald and a black-and-white cat that kept walking ahead and looking back: in August...
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Discover hiking stories and outdoor photography from mountain landscapes and wild places. Explore the scenery behind the journeys, then browse related collections on the Alps, climbing and mountain adventures.
Kungsleden Trail: 130 km in Seven Days Through Swedish Lapland
Yellow birches, rust-red tundra, blue lakes and snow still lying on the high slopes: this is Kungsleden, the King's Trail, in Swedish L...
Born Wild: Three Adventure Moms Climbing and Camping with Their Kids
Three young mothers, Brooke Froelich, Morgan Brechler and Shannon Robertson, refused to give up climbing, camping and backpacking when they...
Slovak Mountain Sunrises by Simon Trnka: Tatras, Malá Fatra, Veľký Choč
Slovak photographer Simon Trnka spent 2015 chasing first light across his home mountains: the jagged High Tatras, the grassy ridges of the W...
Appalachian Trail Beard Timelapse: 3D's Six-Month Thru-Hike in 2015
Over six months in 2015, a 61-year-old hiker known on the Appalachian Trail as 3D photographed his own face almost every day, from early sp...
French Alps Guide: Mont Blanc, Ski Areas, Vanoise and Lukas Furlan’s Photos
The French Alps hold Western Europe’s highest mountain, the largest linked ski area in the world and the town that hosted the very first Win...
Akiak the Husky: Henrik Vikse's Norway Adventure Photo Diary
Akiak is a husky with a nose for adventure, and his owner, Henrik Vikse from Bergen, built a new working life around that. In 2015 the pair...
Alpine Shelter Skuta: OFIS and Harvard GSD’s Bivouac in the Kamnik Alps
High in Slovenia’s Kamnik Alps, below the 2,532-metre peak of Skuta, a sharp-edged little shelter clings to the rocks. Completed in 2015, t...
Bodhi Bennett's 300 Miles of Family Hiking Before Age Two, Plus Tips
Before his second birthday, Bodhi Bennett had covered more than 300 miles (about 483 km) of mountain trails in California with his parents,...
French Alps Photography by Lukas Furlan: Streams, Valleys and Evening Peaks
A cold stream cuts through dark rock, and behind it jagged peaks catch the last warm light under a sky full of cloud. That is the opening f...
Rambo the Dog and the 2015 Mount Bierstadt Lightning Strike
On Sunday 28 June 2015, Jonathan Hardman set out to climb Colorado's Mount Bierstadt with three friends and two dogs, one of them his se...
Gran Paradiso National Park: Alpine Ibex, History and Landscapes
Gran Paradiso National Park, in the Graian Alps of northwest Italy, is the country's oldest national park and the place that saved the A...
Norway Travel Guide: 10 Places from Oslo and Lofoten to Trolltunga
Norway packs an astonishing range of scenery into one long country: a capital on the Oslofjord, UNESCO-listed fjords in the west, the talles...
Tatra Mountains in Poland: Karol Nienartowicz’s Photos, Lakes and Trails
The Tatra Mountains are the highest range in the Carpathians and the wildest corner of Poland: granite peaks, deep glacial lakes, chamois o...
Climbers in the Mont Blanc Massif: Kamil Tamiola’s Alpine Photography
A splash of red or orange is often all it takes to understand the size of a mountain. Kamil Tamiola, a commercial outdoor photographer who ...
Everest Base Camp Trek in Photos: Lukla to Kala Patthar, Stage by Stage
The trek to Everest Base Camp climbs from the tiny airstrip at Lukla, 2,846 metres up in Nepal’s Khumbu region, to Everest Base Camp at 5,36...
Clear Frozen Lake in Slovakia's High Tatras: Walking on See-Through Ice
Two hikers step onto a frozen mountain lake in Slovakia's High Tatras, and the ice is so clear that every stone on the bottom shows thro...
Alex Honnold’s Half Dome Free Solo and How to Hike Half Dome in Yosemite
In 2008 Alex Honnold climbed the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome, 2,000 feet and 23 pitches of Yosemite granite, alone and without a ro...
Besseggen Ridge Hike: Gjende, Bessvatnet and Jotunheimen, Norway
Besseggen is Norway's most famous mountain hike. The ridge in Jotunheimen National Park runs between two lakes of startlingly different ...
Mount Hua Plank Walk Video: Huashan's Cliffside Path in China
A sheer granite wall on one side, hundreds of metres of air on the other, and only a line of narrow wooden boards in between. The Mount Hua ...