Seven Summits

Mount Kosciuszko – Australia’s High Point

Mount Kosciuszko – Australia’s High Point The Outback looms over most foreign conceptions of Australia. This hot, arid expanse covers most of the continent and is filled with few humans and many things that might kill humans. It’s one of the gnarliest stretches on the planet, granting Australia an unforgiving natural reputation. It might seem […]

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Vinson Massif – Antarctica’s High Point

Vinson Massif – Antarctica’s High Point Earth’s basement – Antarctica – is most famous for the South Pole and being extraordinarily cold. The pole put a massive target on the continent for adventurers, leading to the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The planet’s harshest climate caused those explorations to be rather gnarly. One of the two expeditions that

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Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro   “No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.” –Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro   Africa’s tallest mountain – Kilimanjaro – looms like an icy sentinel over the surrounding savannas of northern Tanzania, just south of the border with Kenya. Kilimanjaro towers over the grasslands of Tana – photo by Volodymyr

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