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Cold Hunter One: Carbon Offsets

As Dupre heads for Alaska today, it has become part of all his expeditions to offset his carbon footprint. With carbonfund.org – it’s eas...

Cold Hunter One: The Comfy Cocoon

On multi-week winter expeditions, getting a solid night’s sleep is key to success. The trick on these prolonged outings is to ensure you...

Cold Hunter One: Expedition Cook Kit

Since I spend the bulk of my tent time operating the stove for snow melting and for cooking, I put lots of thought in my cook system. The...

Cold Hunter One: Keeping Frost Off the Phalanges

We’ve covered feet… now hands. All too often mountaineers and explorers risk losing fingers and toes in extreme cold. Let’s see how Lonn...

Cold Hunter One: Preserving Your Tootsies

Polar explorer Lonnie Dupre shares his hard earned winter survival tips of the trade. Here he explains his footwear for winter mountaine...

Cold Hunter One: Launch

Dupre prepares for another winter climb. Mount Hunter (14,573 ft) is the steepest and most technical of the three great peaks in Denali N...

Part 1: Jeannette Peak - The Idea

There are unclimbed mountains in the Rockies? And only 45km from Valemount, B.C ., and Jasper, Alta. … really? YES! Exploration can stil...

Part 2: Jeannette Peak - The First Attempt

First Attempt: March 12-14 2018 Within a week of deciding to attempt Jeannette Peak, after a thorough combing of topographic maps and Goo...

Part 3: Jeannette Peak - The Second Attempt

Second Attempt: April 2-3 2018 We were lucky to have the flexibility to wait for another weather window for our second try; this time, as...

Part 4: Jeannette Peak - The Routes

As goes with all exploration, there are multiple failures before success can be attained. In the excitement of pioneering this unclimbed...

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