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Mountain adventures create the best stories, and we want to share some of ours with you. Dive into Alpenglow Stories to stay up to date on expeditions in the field, read blogs, and get tips and tricks from guides.
A snapshot of Ecuador, Part 2
Dawn found us high on the mountain. The last several hours had been filled with the rhythmic crunching of crampons, interspersed with stories of past adventures and thoughts…
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Why Does It Take So Long To Climb Everest?
Text & Photos: Zeb Blais “My heart pounded in my chest, overpowering the music blaring through my headphones. I was skipping between large granite boulders, ascending a ridge line 3,000′ above…
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Mount Everest: The Routes
An overview of the two primary routes to climb Mt. Everest via the North Side and South Side.
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#EverestNoFilter Wins a Webby Award
#EverestNoFilter has won a Webby Award in the Social – Sports category for last year’s expedition! The program beat out submissions from the NBA, NFL, WWE and others to take…
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Progress on the North Side
The #EverestNoFilter team spent a week setting up Base Camp (17,000 / 5200m) and acclimatizing. They moved to Interim Camp (19,000′ / 5800m) and have continued to do acclimatization hikes…
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South America Climbing Schools
Alpenglow Expeditions isn’t just about #RapidAscent climbs of Mt Everest, we have options for all experience levels, including first time climbers or those who need to brush off their skill…
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Everest 2017 – Rapid Ascent and Everest No Filter
Well folks, it’s that time of year again! The winter is thawing and Everest is beginning to call our name. Alpenglow Expeditions has assembled another fantastic team of climbers, sherpa…
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Aconcagua Team at C1
Our Aconcagua Rapid Ascent team made it to C1 (16,568′ / 5050m) yesterday. Today the team will touch C2 (17,900′ / 5456m). After approximately four hours of hiking through the Amegheni…
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Successful Summit on Aconcagua
Here are a few updates from the long weekend. We posted them live on our social media channels, and we apologize for the delay for blog updates! On Saturday our…
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Aconcagua Team Moves From BC to C1
Our Aconcagua Rapid Ascent expedition team is making great progress! Pictured here is the team in basecamp (13,800′ / 4206m) this morning, just before they departed for C1 (16,568′ /…
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