San Francisco design and outdoor company ALITE has turned to Kickstarter to fund their upcoming camp Clover Cook Set. The design is simple and functional: You get a plastic spoon and spatula that can be snapped together to make tongs. So why does an established company like ALITE need Kickstarter? They say the molds cost [ more... ]

The classic 1968 film El Capitan is the story of four climbers who spend three days on the face of the famous route. The film has a long history of sitting in post-production, and its premier came more than ten years after shooting. In the mid-90s it became available on VHS, but the quality of [ more... ]

“Walking meditation” sounds better than “walking slowly uphill while not feeling well” if you have to choose a way to describe alpinism. K2: Siren of the Himalayas is a documentary shot back in 2009 that follows the Duke of Abruzzi’s historic 1909 expedition. The film isn’t out yet, but if you donate $25 to the cause on the group’s Kickstarter page you’ll get a DVD in the mail when the film is complete. (For $5 you get mentioned on their Twitter feed!)

Joshua Megyesy and Christopher Noel have turned to the crowdsource fundraiser Kickstarter in an attempt to pay for the latest thermal imaging camera technology in their quest to find (and protect) Sasquatch. This cause has never been more important as it is now legal to hunt and kill Bigfoot in Texas. We can only hope [ more... ]

Enterprising adventurer Andrew Badenoch has set a goal of making a 7,000-mile journey across much of the Canadian and Alaskan arctic traveling by fat bike and pack raft. Instead of attaching some kind of fundraising-for-a-cause to his expedition, he started a Kickstater page. He sought to raise about $10k to pay for his trip and [ more... ]