Mountain
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Travel
Can Reed Hastings Disrupt Skiing?
On a Monday morning in early March, Reed Hastings, the billionaire co-founder and former chief executive of Netflix, clicked into…
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World
A Ski Resort Rebrands as Ultraexclusive, and Some Locals Feel Left Out
The Windham Mountain Club, with $200,000 memberships, is looking to seize on the potential of luring the wealthy from New…
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World
Audrey Salkeld, Pioneering Historian of Everest, Dies at 87
She trawled 56 boxes of forgotten archives, bringing to life mysterious figures from early expeditions. She also climbed Everest, as…
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World
If You Can Take the Cable Car to the Colosseum, You’re in Vietnam
The country is in the middle of a cable-car bonanza, much of it driven by the over-the-top developments of the…
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World
K2 Climbers Criticized Over Continuing Ascent After Finding Dying Porter
One of the climbers, Kristin Harila, said she continued her summit of the mountain after finding a porter who fell…
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Food
Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as…
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Sports
Little by Little, Pogacar Gains on Vingegaard at the Tour de France
An incremental strategy closes the gap but doesn’t change the yellow jersey, for now.
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Sports
A Race Up the World’s Tallest Mountains, and for Gender Equality
Kristin Harila, a novice explorer, is looking to summit the world’s highest peaks in less than 6 months. Paperwork got…
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Travel
You Don’t Go to Sun Valley to Party
In recent years, America’s top ski resorts have upped the ante with five-star hotels, slopeside luxury brand collaborations and outposts…
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Travel
Making the Slopes Fun from Day 1
When it comes to designing terrain and the learning experience, resorts have finally started thinking about beginners, with the idea…