Backcountry Magazine 167 | The Hidden Issue Gift SubscriptionsOn the Cover: The Sahara Desert stretches from Egypt and Sudan in the east to Mauritania and Morocco in the west. It is the worlds largest hot desert. Rain is rare and snow, almost nonexistenta climate reality shaped partly by periods of glacier formation throughout history. Wind, however, is constant, stripping and depositing enough grains of sandstone from the Saharas rocky plateaus to form ergs, or sand seas, like those along Moroccos eastern
” John Hessler and Paula Wright recount scenes from the history of the highest mountain in Western Europe
But fame wasn’t all it’s cracked up to be
historian Maurice Isserman revisits the story of what some call the real "First American Everest Expedition
Spyderco co-founder Sal Glesser designed the lightweight
private avalanche courses offer a tailored educational experience
contingency earned four medals
a few days before we went to press
The Green Man “is in the knowing that in the whites and greys and long nights of winter
Professional skiers Nick McNutt and Ian McIntosh recount a near-death slide in Pemberton
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