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Nepal's Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita has been nominated National Geographic People’s Choice adventurer of the year 2016. Apart from being a highly talented mountainer, Pasang Lhamu distinguished herself for her role in relief efforts after the country suffered a severe...

Interview with American alpinist, photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin. By Alessandra Raggio

Monaco is currently welcoming a record number of exhausted athletes after hiking and flying from Salzburg  in the Red Bull X-Alps 2015.

With today's prologue of the Red Bull X-Alps, the countdown has begun for the world's toughest adventure race. On Sunday 5 July 32 athletes from 18 nations will race for over 1000km, on foot or by paraglider, across Europe’s most...

From 07/11/2014 to 31/01/2015 you can cast your vote online for the National Geographic adventurer of the year 2014. Nominees include Tommy Caldwell, Kit DesLauriers, Will Gadd, Wasfia Nazreen and Ueli Steck.

Spanish skyrunning ultrarunner Kilian Jornet Burgada has been named the 2014 National Geographic People’s Choice adventurer of the year.

From 14/11/2014 to 31/01/2014 you can cast your vote online for the National Geographic adventurer of the year 2014. Nominees include Adam Ondra, Kilian Jornet Burgada, Raphael Slawinski and Ian Welsted.

Austrian Felix Baumgartner was awarded the National Geographic adventurer of the year for his historic free fall from space on 14 October 2012.

From 1/11/2013 to 16/01/2013 you can cast your vote for the National Geographic adventurer of the year 2013.

Everest Guide Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and kayaker Sano Babu Sunuwar have won the National Geographic People's Choice adventurer of the year 2012.

Video of American climber Dean Potter slacklining above Yosemite Falls, Yosemite, USA.

No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 by Graham Bowley has now been published in Italy by Mondadori. The book retraces the 2008 tragedy on K2 which cost the lives of 11 alpinists and only Italian mountaineer Marco Confortola...

American rock climber Dean Potter has been named adventurer of the year by National Geographic Adventure Magazine.