Adventure Links of the Week

When we’re not outdoors, we get our adventure fix by exploring social media and the web. Here are some of the best adventure links we’ve discovered this week.

Trailblazing the Sky: Canadian highliner Mia Noblet is redefining the limits of her sport. After mastering tricky waterlines at Squamish’s Stawamus Chief without a fall, a feat that even top athletes struggle with, she turned to slacklining and then highlining.

At Hunlen Falls, Canada, she crossed a 222 m highline spanning a 400 m abyss. After two hours of focused steps, she set a new women's record.

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Five of the Greatest Walks in the World: From the 65km Overland Track in Tasmania to Mount Kenya, this list of five multi-day walks has something for everyone. Itincludes a mix of terrains, levels of challenge, and cultural experiences.

Yellowstone. Photo: Louise Howard

Bison dies in hot spring

Yellowstone Tourists Watch As Bison Dies in Hot Spring: On June 21, visitors at Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring witnessed a bull bison stumble into the scorching water.

Despite its desperate efforts, the bison was unable to free itself. Park officials confirmed that the hot water, rather than acidity, caused the bison's death and that they left the carcass to decompose naturally. Witnesses described watching “the circle of life unfold in the most raw way."

Why This Photographer Made a Camera Lens Out of Glacial Ice: In a striking photography experiment, Tristan Duke traveled to Svalbard in 2022 to create camera lenses from shards of ancient glacial ice. Duke projected the Arctic landscape onto massive negatives, using a tent-like camera obscura to hold the palm-sized ice lenses.

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As the lenses thawed, they created soft, tear-like blurring over the images. Duke then traveled across America, using ice lenses to photograph wildfires, oil infrastructure, and wind turbines.

Emanuele Andreozzi reaches the third belay on the north face of Dent du Géant. Photo: Santiago Padros

New lines and freeing El Cap

Exploring the North Face of Dent du Géant: On June 10, Italian alpinist Emanuele Andreozzi and Spain’s Santiago Padros climbed what might be a completely new mixed line on the North Face of Dent du Géant in France. Padros first saw a crack running down the face in 2014 and had been thinking about the 335m line for years.

Ethan Morf is the Youngest Climber to Free El Cap In A Day: At 20 years old, Ethan Morf has become the youngest climber to free climb Yosemite’s legendary El Capitan in a single day. He sent the famed Free Rider route (VI 5.13a, 29 pitches) in under 24 hours.

Morf had climbed 23 pitches over 14 hours before his first fall. Exhausted, he took a 15-minute nap before completing the last six pitches, the last five of which he deemed "the fight of my fucking life."

Close-up view of the first ascent of the west face of Seerdengpu. Photo: Griff

A big wall climb in China

Coveted Chinese Wall Finally Climbed: In 2024, a Chinese climber made the first ascent of Seerdengpu’s 850 m west face in China’s Siguniang National Park. This steep wall had remained unclimbed despite repeated international attempts, including six lines by Pat Goodman.

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Solo and without a permit, the Chinese climber (known only by the alias Ma Fang) completed the feat last year. He had been attempting the wall for four years without success. For his final attempt, he entered the valley several times as a tourist to stealthily transport 75 kg of gear to his base camp. He has now written an account of his ascent.

Three Men Mysteriously Drown After Hiking to California Swimming Hole: On June 18, six hikers arrived at the remote Rattlesnake Falls in Placer County, Northern California. Three of the men jumped into the cold, fast-moving water and vanished beneath the surface. Three days later, volunteer diver Juan Heredia hiked in and recovered the bodies of Valentino Creus, 59, and Matthew Schoenecker, 50, from Los Angeles, and Matthew Anthony, 44, from New York City.