After the Fall

by | May 14, 2019 | Recreation

Throughout 2019, in celebration of Adirondack Life’s 50th anniversary, we’re sharing an article per week from our archives—one for each year since 1970. In 1988, veteran climber Don Mellor wrote about two scary incidents he had on the ice. More than 20 years later,...

Unbroken

by | Apr 25, 2019 | April 2019, Recreation

How two Adirondackers came back after near-fatal falls One day in February 2017, Matt Horner, then 47, was using crampons and a pair of axes to pick his way up Rhiannon, an Adirondack ice-climbing route on the cliffs that form the far side of Chapel Pond. The pond is...
The Ice Man

The Ice Man

by | Apr 6, 2017 | February 2017

Photograph by Jamie West McGiver   Climbing guide Ian Osteyee I received my first pair of ice axes as a wedding present in 2002. They were yellow and used and bore both rust and a certain color of nail polish that distinguished them from others. My wife and...