Editorial
"Relics Recovered" National Geographic Adventure Magazine
World class climbers go where archaeologists can't...
By: Broghton Coburn
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"The Crow's Nest" Powder Magazine
In the northwest corner of the 943,626-acre Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Black Mountain rises almost 6,000 feet from the valley floor...
By: Emily Stifler
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"New Nomads of the High Atlas" Saudi Aramco World
Mas’udi’s modest home of mud and stacked stone in the remote village of Taghia, Morocco—a three-hour walk from the nearest road— is bursting with the activity and noise of arriving and departing travelers...
By: Cloe Medina Erickson
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"Little Big Sky" Skiing Magazine
An hour outside of Havre, the wind starts ripping across the highway, sending temperatures well below zero. By the time we reach Havre, the temperature is minus 20...
By: Hans Saari
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"Down Time" Outside Magazine
The author investigates in Peru's Cordillera Blance, where six adventurers scramble to beat "poachers" to first descents, contend with one another's egos and, finally, try to make history...
By: Robert Buchanan
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"Hyalite Blues" Climbing
Alex Lowe hangs from one arm, his feet dangling in the swirling grey mist. "Watch me!" he calls. Then, with a toothy smile, he cranks a one-arm pull-up, and thunks his axe into a groaning drip of ice...
By: Hans Saari
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"A New Plan for Hyalite Canyon" Black Diamond
Montana ice climbers were gripped: the Gallatin National Forest’s 2007 travel plan called for closing and gating the access road to Hyalite Canyon’s world-class ice climbing...
By: Emily Stifler
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
"From the Hip" Alpinist
The lack of wind in the trees and the clear skies at 1 a.m. made shaking off the three hours of sleep easy. In the dilapidated hut, we slammed the last sips of grainy coffee and shoved the day's supplies into our packs...
By: Bean Bowers
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson
Cover Powder Japan
"In Memory of Hans Saari" Blue
May 8, 2001, dawned with clear skies and not a whisper of wind throughout the Chamonix Valley - not normal weather for the French Alps at that time of year. It was to be the worst day of my life...
By: Bean Bowers
Text and Photos by: Kristoffer Erickson
"Spiteful Spire " LA Times Outdoors
Patagonia's Mt. Fitzroy batters, maims, or kills the few alpinists who dare to scale it. What would posses a past-his-prime climber to claw up its treacherous face again?
Photos: Kristoffer Erickson