Alan Gordon compiled this film of himself climbing glaciers and exploring ice caves off-shooting from the Juneau ice field. He’s lived there for years, and seen the glacier melt accelerate. “My goal for the film is to show everyone places in time that won’t be there forever. It is an opportunity that I want to take to not only explore but to capture on film these beautiful places that are constantly evolving and melting away.”

Either it’s snowing super hard or the Everest webcam is down again. The solar powered camera was setup by a team of scientists who are seeking to measure the effects of global warming, and the feed is live from 6am to 6pm Himalaya time. I’m terrible at math so you’re on your own for local times. Right now the camera feed looks like a whiteout, so I’ll stop back in a few hours to see if it’s blackout. I heard that the webcam was invented by scientists who wanted to keep an eye on the coffeepot in the next room; glad to see we can now use them to keep an eye on glaciers on the other side of the world.

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A climber in Grand Teton National Park walked out of a couloir with the duos only climbing rope and left his friend to be rescued. To be fair, his partner had activated his SPOT beacon and a rescue helicopter had hovered over them while his partner indicated he required rescue before the guy left. What happened was the two were stranded, the one called for help while the other insisted he didn’t need it, and then once the one who didn’t need help saw the helicopter, he got out of there and hiked back. Then when he arrived home the park police issued him a ticket for disorderly conduct. The park said they issued him the ticket because he left before the rescue occurred and he took their only rope. It’s a very odd situation, and it’s easy to see both sides of the issue. But I will say that I’m glad the park police have one catch-all “disorderly conduct” ticket they can be issued to guys whether they’ve abandoned climbing partners or peed in the middle of the street.

A very cool trailer for the climbing film Tomorrow I Will Be Gone, but I don’t know if I could sit through a feature-length version of any bouldering video. It’s like watching video of people drinking beer, sure, I love it, but it’s not that much fun watching on TV. Not that I should complain, Outcrop Films is releasing their first feature for free online so there’s very little investment for what could turn out to be a great experience.

Yes, we’ve all read that going up Everest is glorified “snow march.” This helmet cam video from a while back shows a climber making his way over the Khumbu glacier. Put some railings up on those things! I’ve read so much ridiculous stuff about Everest that it’s become easy to forget how beautiful it can be. I hope they tipped their Sherpas well for putting up the ladders.

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