America's premier festival of mountain, adventure, cultural and environmental film and video will stage its largest festival ever over Memorial Day weekend.

Resorts see up to 23 inches in 48 hours with no signs of it letting up.

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.

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.

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 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.

Renowned climber and photographer Galen Rowell was killed Sunday morning in a plane crash near the Bishop, California airport.

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.

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.

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'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.

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.

More than a thousand emails were received in the weeks following our announcement in late August that indeed we were back.

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.

Austrian ski superstar Hermann Maier is reportedly making excellent progress after he suffered severe injuries following a motorcycle accident.

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