Two school friends from Downside School in Somerset are hoping to be the youngest adventurers to complete a full crossing of Iceland on foot, to raise money for international charity Mary’s Meals. William White and James Hobbs, both 17, started out from the island’s southernmost point earlier this month (Wednesday July 3) and hope to arrive at their end point …
Trek to Everest… virtually
Renowned mountaineer David Breashears and his GlacierWorks organisation have launched an online experience called ‘Everest: Rivers of Ice’ in conjunction with Microsoft. Using the latest functionality in Internet Explorer 10, Breashears and GlacierWorks have created an immersive, multi-touch exploration platform showcasing David’s life of mountaineering, filmmaking and photography in the Himalayan region. So what does it do? Well ‘Everest: Rivers …
Arc'teryx announce first UK stand-alone store
Arc’teryx have announced plans to open their first stand-alone store in Europe, to be run in partnership with Snow + Rock. The shop will be located in St Martin’s Courtyard in London’s Covent Garden, and opens in August. Covent Garden is a mecca for outdoor enthusiasts and St Martin’s Courtyard is a unique and stylish shopping and dining destination in …
Garmin announce Android-powered GPS
Garmin have announced a WiFi-enabled outdoor handheld GPS that uses the Android operating system, called Monterra. From now on users can easily access the Google Play Store, download apps through an available WiFi connection right onto their outdoor optimised Garmin handheld and enjoy new ways to explore the great outdoors. Garmin will be showing the Monterra the very first time …
New Houlding/Lee film trailer goes live
The trailer for the next cinematic epic from Leo Houlding and Alastair Lee can now be viewed at www.thelastgreatclimb.com In the film, Houlding and his climbing team of Jason Pickles and Sean Leary travel to the Antarctic to attempt to scale the NE Ridge of Ulvetanna (‘The Wolf’s Tooth’) which is the hardest climb on the most inhospitable continent on …
Vaude to launch 600g backpacking tent
Leading German outdoor brand Vaude have announced plans to launch several significant new products for Spring 2014, and they will see the light of day for the first time at the upcoming Outdoor Show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, this July. The real headline-grabber is their new Lizard GUL (which stands for Giga Ultra Light) tent which weighs in at an incredible …
Bate and team battle weather to reach North Pole
Friend of Trek & Mountain and founder of expedition company Adventure Alternative, Gavin Bate, has recently completed a gruelling journey to the North Pole in aid of his Moving Mountains charity. At 03:30 GMT (9:30pm local time) on 29th May, Gavin and the rest of the team made it there after a mammoth 35km push over the course of more than …
Ellis Brigham host mountaineering talks
To coincide with the 60th anniversary year of the first Mount Everest ascent, Ellis Brigham are hosting mountaineering talks by two intrepid adventurers on Thursday 27th June at their Covent Garden Store 7.30 – 9.30pm. Mollie Hughes, 21, recently successfully climbed Everest to become one of the youngest British climbers to summit the mountain while Malgosia Skowronska has laid claim …
It was 60 years ago today…
Sixty years ago today, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary left their tent at 27,900ft on the South-East Ridge of Mt Everest and climbed to the summit and straight into history, as the first men to make the first known ascent of the world’s highest mountain. There’s plenty of celebrations and events on today to mark the incredible achievement of …
Everest 60th anniversary – one day to go!
Sixty years ago today, the 1953 team were pushing up the South-East Ridge to Camp IX (Ridge Camp) at 27,900ft, from where Hillary and Tenzing would make their summit push the following morning. George Lowe, Ang Nyima and Alf Gregory dropped supplies here before retreating to the South Col from where they would watch Hillary and Tenzing’s progress with anticipation. …