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		<title>The Cutting Edge: 2011 Piolet d&#8217;Or</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2011/04/the-cutting-edge-2011-piolet-dor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Miesbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Articles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;d like to congratulate Ben Ditto and company for winning the 2011 Piolet d&#8217;Or this past Friday in Chamonix. His crew, The Wild Bunch (Ben, Nico Favresse, Olivier Favresse, and Seán Villanueva), share the honor with Katsutaka Yokoyama and Yasushi Okada because &#8220;these climbs truly represented the spirit of alpinism,&#8221; said Jury President Greg Child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cutting Edge: The Impossible Wall</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2011/04/the-cutting-edge-the-impossible-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Miesbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climbing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I had the honor to meet and interview climber and expedition photographer Ben Ditto in Bishop, California, where he currently lives. He (along with Sean Villanueva, Nico, and Olivier Favresse) has been nominated for the IXX Piolet d&#8217;Or award for completing ten big-wall first ascents on the coast of Greenland. Traveling on Captain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cutting Edge: Dempster and Normand Climb Mt Edgar</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2011/03/the-cutting-edge-dempster-and-normand-on-edgar/</link>
		<comments>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2011/03/the-cutting-edge-dempster-and-normand-on-edgar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Riser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Athletes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climbing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local SLC badass, full-time alpine climber, and part-time coffee slinger Kyle Dempster recently joined up with Bruce Normand to climb China&#8217;s West Face of Mt Grosvenor and the East Face of Mt Edgar. (In 2009, Mt Edgar&#8217;s East face tragically took the lives of Jonny Copp, Micah Dash, and Wade Johnson.) On this successful ascent, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More SIA Trade Show Highlights with Backcountry.com Athletes: 4FRNT, TREW, &amp; More</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2011/03/more-sia-trade-show-highlights-with-backcountry-com-athletes-4frnt-trew-more/</link>
		<comments>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2011/03/more-sia-trade-show-highlights-with-backcountry-com-athletes-4frnt-trew-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Peters</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gear Guide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gear preview]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pro athletes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skiing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here, we showcase some of the  sweetest 2011/2012  gear that we found at the SIA snowsports trade show in Denver this winter. We enlisted a few Backcountry.com pro athletes to do the &#8216;splainin&#8217;; these pros have journeyed farther, stayed out in the cold longer, and skied more intimidating mountains than most of us ever will. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ski the Himalayas Film Release</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/12/ski-the-himalayas-film-release/</link>
		<comments>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/12/ski-the-himalayas-film-release/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Showalter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[backcountry skiing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expeditions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skiing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ski The Himalayas, a 90-minute documentary that chronicles three climbers&#8217; 2009 and 2010 attempts at climbing and skiing 23,389-foot Baruntse is on Dish Network Pay Per View through April 14, 2011. Ski mountaineers Ben Clark, Josh Butson, and Jon Miller spend 750 days attempting to climb one mountain in a way that has not been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Because It&#8217;s There</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/11/because-its-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at Backcountry.com are stoked that The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest will be screened in our backyard this fall as a part of the Park City Film Series. The documentary follows mountaineers Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding as they don leather boots and wool sweaters and attempt to re-create George Mallory&#8217;s 1924 ascent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>K2 and the Millionaire</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/09/k2-and-the-millionaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Showalter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outdoor Articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpine climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[expeditions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While commuting up the canyon to my cubicle not long ago, I caught this interview Diane Rehm did with Jennifer Jordan, the author of The Last Man on the Mountain: The Death of an American Adventurer on K2. The Diane Rehm Show might not be the first place you&#8217;d think you might catch a compelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting Object of Desire: Pacific Northwest</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/08/revisiting-object-of-desire-pacific-northwest/</link>
		<comments>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/08/revisiting-object-of-desire-pacific-northwest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Chapman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpine climbing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mt. baker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[north cascades]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backcountrybeacon.com/?p=6388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever think back to high school to the guy or girl you had a major crush on during that oh-so whimsical, awkward, angsty part of your life?  He/she was the physical embodiment of perfection; your heart raced in his presence; her page in your yearbook was well-thumbed … or perhaps stuck to the facing page. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Outdoor Giving</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/08/summertime-and-the-giving-is-easy-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/08/summertime-and-the-giving-is-easy-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Showalter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://backcountrybeacon.com/?p=6103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In an era when the blank spaces on the map are all but gone, when very little true wilderness remains, and when too many people stay indoors with their TVs, those of us who play in the backcountry might feel compelled to act as stewards of the backcountry by taking care of and preserving the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Ways To Get Hurt While Climbing</title>
		<link>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/08/top-10-ways-to-get-hurt-while-climbing/</link>
		<comments>http://backcountrybeacon.com/2010/08/top-10-ways-to-get-hurt-while-climbing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Riser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alpine climbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american alpine club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mountaineering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survival]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, the American Alpine Club publishes the one book that no one wants to be in—Accidents in North American Mountaineering. Inside its pages is everything from the most mellow of injuries to horrible accidents that ended in death. The reason that the American Alpine Club publishes such a depressing book every year is so [...]]]></description>
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