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  • 25th Annual MOUNTAINFILM Festival in Telluride
    Wednesday, March 19, 2003
    America's premier festival of mountain, adventure, cultural and environmental film and video will stage its largest festival ever over Memorial Day weekend.

  • The Colorado Blizzard of 2003
    Tuesday, March 18, 2003
    Resorts see up to 23 inches in 48 hours with no signs of it letting up.

  • Outdoor Research Founder Ron Gregg Dies in Avalanche
    Monday, March 17, 2003
    Ron Gregg, founder and President of Outdoor Research, was killed in an avalanche skiing with friends in the Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park in the British Columbia Rockies.

  • Canadian Avalanche Kills 7, Including Craig Kelly
    Tuesday, January 21, 2003
    Craig Kelly, 36, who retired from one of the most successful competitive careers in snowboarding history to follow his heart into the backcountry, was killed in an avalanche Monday near Revelstoke in the Canadian Rockies.

  • Göran Kropp Killed in Climbing Accident
    Tuesday, October 1, 2002
    Swedish adventurer Göran Kropp was killed yesterday when he fell while rock climbing at Frenchman Coulee, a popular climbing area near Vantage, Washington, 135 miles southeast of Seattle.

  • Ed Hommer Killed on Rainier
    Tuesday, September 24, 2002
    Ed Hommer was killed yesterday on 14,411-foot Mount Rainier when he was hit by a falling rock. Hommer was training for his second attempt to become the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

  • Galen and Barbara Rowell Obituaries
    Tuesday, August 13, 2002
  • Galen Rowell Killed in Plane Crash
    Monday, August 12, 2002
    Renowned climber and photographer Galen Rowell was killed Sunday morning in a plane crash near the Bishop, California airport.

  • Three Brothers Killed in Fall on Mount Foraker
    Wednesday, June 19, 2002
    Three Anchorage-area brothers have died on Alaska's 17,400-foot Mount Foraker. The bodies were discovered Monday evening by park service rangers after base camp personnel became alarmed at reports of avalanche activity in the area where the three were climbing.

  • A Deadly Week on the Cascade Volcanoes
    Friday, May 31, 2002
    The past four days have seen tragic climbing accidents on Oregon's Mount Hood and Washington's Mount Rainier, two of the most popular of the Cascade volcanoes.

  • Daron Rahlves Injured in Freeskiing Accident
    Tuesday, March 12, 2002
    World super G ski racing champion Daron Rahlves was injured Tuesday in a freeskiing accident at Squaw Valley, where the Chevy Truck U.S. Alpine Championships will open later this week.

  • Pakistan Mountaineering Fees Cut 50%
    Wednesday, January 16, 2002
    Pakistan's Federal Minister for Tourism Colonel S.K Tressler announced a 50% reduction in peak fee royalties for mountaineering expeditions in 2002. The announcement comes at a time when the tourism industry has been beleaguered in the wake of the the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

  • World Cup Skier Succumbs to Injuries
    Wednesday, October 31, 2001
    Super G World Champion Régine Cavagnoud died Wednesday morning at the Innsbruck University Hospital of head injuries sustained Monday morning in a violent collision with a German ski trainer.

  • Your Feedback
    Thursday, September 13, 2001
    More than a thousand emails were received in the weeks following our announcement in late August that indeed we were back.

  • Direct Focus to Acquire Schwinn Fitness
    Thursday, September 13, 2001
    Direct Focus, Inc. (Nasdaq:DFXI), a marketing company for fitness and healthy lifestyle products with a direct business model, announced today that it was the successful bidder to acquire substantially all of the assets of Schwinn/GT's fitness equipment division.

  • Herminator's Fight
    Monday, September 11, 2001
    Austrian ski superstar Hermann Maier is reportedly making excellent progress after he suffered severe injuries following a motorcycle accident.

  • We're Back
    Monday, August 20, 2001
    MountainZone.com, the site that introduced a generation of mountain sports enthusiasts to a completely new way of getting news, interviews and authentic information, is still cranking.