Owen Clarke

6 days ago | outsideonline.com | Owen Clarke

On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepal's 27,838-foot Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain. Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a Makalu summit bid, and had recently returned to Camp II at 22,310 feet when he died, sources told Outside. His guide, Terray Sylvester of American climbing company Madison Mountaineering, told Outside that Pancoe died suddenly. "We don't yet know exactly what happened," Sylvester said.

1 week ago | outsideonline.com | Owen Clarke

Ray Zahab first noticed that something was wrong with his body in the spring of 2022. “I just started to feel like shit,” he told me, chuckling. The Canadian ultrarunner was 54, and he felt like his body was breaking down. Even his warm up runs began to feel grueling. He was constantly out of breath, napping several times a day, and struggling with severe brain fog. “I felt like I had wool in my head,” he said. He wondered if he was nearing the end of his career.

2 weeks ago | climbing.com | Owen Clarke

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Yesterday, American boulderer Katie Lamb announced that she’d scaled The Dark Side in Yosemite National Park. The Dark Side, which has a V9 intro followed by sustained V15 climbing, is 17 moves long and graded V16, making it the hardest boulder problem in Yosemite, and among the hardest in the United States.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Owen Clarke

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2 weeks ago | climbing.com | Owen Clarke

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On April 20, English climber and Olympian Hamish McArthur made the first repeat of Shawn Raboutou’s Megatron (V17), one of the world’s hardest boulders. Megatron adds about half-a-dozen moves of V15/16 into the stand-start Tron (V14) in Colorado’s Eldorado Canyon State Park.