home.social

#mountaineering — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mountaineering, aggregated by home.social.

  1. With the Matterhorn so close by, the Ober Gabelhorn (4063m) is probably a bit underappreciated, so perfect for a bit of Mountain-Monday-spotlighting.

    cosleyhouston.com/obergabelhor

    #MountainMonday #Mountaineering

  2. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎒🏞️ The Smithsonian traces backpack #design from a two-million-year-old practice to Ötzi’s hazel-and-board frame around 3300 BCE, then follows improvements through a #CivilWar cavalry officer’s patented canvas-and-metal pack, a #Duluth #canoe-hauling design, #aluminum-frame #mountaineering models, and the nylon #JanSport that made the #backpack a school staple. Roughly 450 million are sold annually.

    👉 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/

    #backpack #history #invention #hiking #science #socialstudies #engineering #innovation #industrialdesign #school #outdoors #otzi

  3. "He always told his own son that if he were to climb, he’d climb as an athlete, not a guide. If Nima was going to risk it all, he would risk it for his own dreams." —Gloria Liu for National Geographic.

    nationalgeographic.com/culture

    #longreads #climbing #mountaineering #sherpa #writing #nonfiction