Mountain
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US
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 the bindings on his snowboard and started off down one of the slopes at Powder Mountain, a ski area in Utah’s northeast ...
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Newyork
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 York City.
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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 well as Kilimanjaro.
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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 Sun Group, which feature giant Buddhas, ersatz European enclaves and selfie spots galore.
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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 from a cliff and later died.
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Books
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 bracing and complex as a tumbling mountain creek.”
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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 in the way in her first attempt.
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US
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 of pricey, big-city restaurants around town. But sometimes, the Madison Avenue-in-the-mountains vibe becomes ...
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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 of getting them to keep coming back.