From Trango to France to Fitz Roy, the wild ones are sending!
Check out this week’s 🤯 🤯 🤯 below.
Speaking of sending… how about Falcon Flow above Moab?!
🧗♂️ Family Bonding… in the Karakoram
📍 Trango Towers, Karakoram Range, Pakistan
What do you get when a son takes his dad and bro on one of the wildest big-wall lines on earth? Drama, unbreakable bonds, and a story for the grandkids!
The Eternal Flame on Trango’s Nameless Tower — a 1,000m granite needle rising out of the Baltoro.
The crew goes after the second-ever free ascent, 33 years after Wolfgang Güllich & Kurt Albert’s first attempt and 13 years after the Huber brothers’ free ascent. A family reunion, Karakoram style.
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🎿 A Teen Reminds Us What Skiing Is About
📍 Tarentaise Valley, Savoie, French Alps
French freerider Noah Peizerat drops the purest ski edit of the year: no soundtrack, no production… just friends, snow, hoots, and stoke.
The kids are gonna be just fine!
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🏔️ The New Patagonia Generation
📍 El Chaltén, Argentina
Meet The Odell Brothers: a new generation of climbers born and bred under the shadow of Fitz Roy.
El Chaltén was once home to just 100 people, now these youth are climbing everything in sight.
Their story isn’t just about summits, but responsibility, identity, and what it means to share a rope with your bro.
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And these boys are not slowing down!
They just repeated Royal Flush (1,200m, 5.12 A0) on Fitz Roy’s east face. They hoped for the first full free ascent but had to aid through wet cruxes.
🚵 Winter MTB on Vancouver Island
📍 Vancouver Island, Canada
Fog. Moss. Forest. Slow trails. Short days. Perfect vibes.
A Portrait of a Winter shows why Vancouver Island may be the best off-season riding zone in North America.
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❄️ No Manches Guey! Chingados!!
📍 Alaska & Chile
A two-hemisphere link up!
Mason Lemery teams up with John Jackson in Alaska for glacier missions, sketchy weather, and a tiny heli window — then heads south to Chile for a month and a monster storm cycle.
Why are they then “chingados”? Watch it to find out!
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⚡ Bonus News
Laura Pineau is unstoppable in Yosemite
Wet Lycra Nightmare goes down.Vermont teen gets laser focused and rescues a drowning deer in his canoe.
After sinking in quicksand, Hayduke-thru-hiker gets help from a drone.
🧗 The 12-year-old crusher club has a new queeen. Korean climber, Kwon Gaeun, nabs 5.14d in Margalef, Spain.
A 100-year-old Inuvialuit kayak comes home after the Vatican returns it to Arctic communities.
US Attorneys go undercover to investigate Ikon and Epic pass fraud.
A backyard full of elk? AI cannot bugle like this!
📚 Sit Back & Go Deep — Long Reads
⛰️ Filip Babicz on speed and why he loves the Alps above all.
"If I had to choose between climbing an unclimbed 6,000m peak in Pakistan or beating Ueli Steck’s record on the Eiger by just 30 seconds, there’s no question: I’d choose the Eiger.”
🚲 What does “Made in America” even mean in 2025?
A look into what it takes to build a complete U.S.-made bicycle.
🌊 From fear of water to ice-cold winter freediving in Lake Huron.
“Fear of water evolved into a hunger for extreme underwater adventure.”
🐺 The fight to save the red wolf in the American South.
Did you know the red wolf once roamed the South. Today, just 17 live in the wild on a swampy peninsula in Eastern North Carolina.
🌍 Suffering from FOMO?
Here’s where you should be RIGHT NOW…
🇨🇴 Peak bagging: Cordillera Central
📍 Los Volcanes, Colombia
High mountain season is officially on!
Clear mornings, firm snow, and prime glacier travel — this is the window for high Andean objectives. Colombia’s the spot if you want volcano summits without the Ecuador traffic.
Check this vid the 5 most iconic volcanoes down south:
Nevado del Ruiz (Kumanday)
Nevado del Tolima
Nevado del Huila
Puracé Volcano
Sotará Volcano
The fumaroles coming from Ruiz and Puracé are WILD!
🇲🇽 Multipitching — Run for the border
📍 Potrero Chico, Mexico
The limestone mega-walls an hour north of Monterrey are lit right now!
Cool temps. Dry rock. 20-pitch 5.10s for days. The canyon is buzzing with internationals, crushers and dirtbags all chasing the winter sun.
If you’ve dreamed of climbing El Sendero Luminoso, now’s your chance!
(Yep, that’s the 5.12 soloed by Honnold back in the day.)
🎿 Global Snow Chasers Unite
Not sure where the deepest turns are this week?
InTheSnow.com gives weekly updates of the blower shiz around the world.
Europe, Japan, Rockies, Andes… if it’s snowing, they’ll tell you about it. If you need a hit of FOMO or want to plan a last-minute strike mission, this is the tab to keep open all winter.
💥 Stay Stoked. Stay Wild.
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See you on the next send!
❤️🔥 The StokedAF fam 🤘
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PS. Banger of the week: shred the silversun!