First to fall: Historic base jump off Fitz Roy and DWS with Sharma!
🔥 For people who’d rather be outside! 🌲
The other day, I woke up in Moab to a couple of inches of snow and decided to wander over to Arches and watch the desert transform — red rock dusted in white, silent, and hard not to stare at.
Some mornings, even the smallest snowfall feels like stepping into another world. Cheers to the subscribers who enjoy the Stoke.
Please take a moment to share it with your closest partners!
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Nico
🧗 When Sharma sees a line, it’s on!
📍 Mallorca — Spain
Twenty years into psicobloc, Chris Sharma is a much better swimmer! LOL
He says he’s found the line. The kind that pulls everything out of you. “The most beautiful route I’ve ever seen,” he says — “the one i’ve been working towards my whole life.”
Basically, all the Sharma-isms you want. In his world, he doesn’t just create routes… he creates a whole new deep water solo crags in Mallorca.
This time he did right before winter!
🎥 Watch it here!
Length: 12 minutes
🪂 The day Fitz Roy finally let go
📍 Patagonia — Argentina
Patagonia’s tallest tower finally sees a human jump off the edge — the first ever BASE jump on January 7th, via a three day push on the Royal Flush route.
The three climber-jumpers are Boris Egorov, Vladimir Murzaev, and Konstantin Yaemurd.
Now the world is waiting for the flight footage to drop.
📸 Photo gallery courtesy Club7Summits
🎿 On the edge of the map with the polar bears
📍 Baffin Island — Nunavut, Canada
On their first Arctic mission, they scratched the surface. Noah Kuhns and Luke Hinz are back for deeper exploration — hunting untouched steep lines, navigating polar bear encounters, and skiing through one of the most surreal landscapes on Earth.
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Length 14 minutes
🏙️ Street skiing, Finnish style
📍 Espoo — Finland
The Helsinki metro area has long been a proving ground for street skiing and snowboarding. All it takes is a few shovels, a camera, and the right crew — the city becomes the playground.
This cut delivers exactly what you’d expect: heavy hits, clean style, a wholly different urban art form!
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Length 4 minutes
⚡ Bonus News
📲 Is Strava good or bad for skiing? Are social media apps the best motivation for getting out?
🐙 Mangroves, coral, and Innuit communitites. Six National Geographic funded Perpetual Planet Ocean Expeditions aim to accelerate knowledge of the ocean, “from seashore to seafloor, pole to pole”.
🏹 Discovery: 60,000 years ago, we used poison arrows! New research reveals traces of plant toxins on anciente arrow tips in South Africa.
🥾 Need some advice for your upcoming 2026 thru hike? Spoiler, you don’t need to carry extra underwear!
🌨️ Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah gives a demo of a newer techniques it’s using to control avis: Wyssen Towers. Check it out!
📚 Long Reads and Watches
🇲🇦 The Man Behind Candide Thovex
Before the edits, the titles, and the internet-breaking ski clips, there was Aziz and Candide, best friends from ski camp.
Dive into the mind of Aziz Benkrich and mountain culture that helped shape one of the most influential skiers of all time.
A reminder that icons are rarely built alone.
🚲 How Seth’s Bike Hacks Ended Up in an FBI Investigation
What started as DIY bike content and clever internet hacks spiraled into something far stranger. This deep dive traces how Seth’s Bike Hacks — one of mountain biking’s most recognizable YouTube channels — got tangled up in an FBI investigation.
A wild intersection of bikes, algorithms, and unintended consequences.
🧊 Adventures in Greenland: Look in the Mirror
Mirror Wall documents a Greenland expedition from world-class climber Leo Houlding and his team as they take on the imposing Mirror Wall — a 1,200-meter vertical tower rising from the frozen ranges of Greenland.
The 40-minute film is now available to watch for free: Pencil it into your schedule!
Houlding leads a team of determined, talented, but ultimately inexperienced young climbers up this massive wall.
Some walls test your ability.
Others test everything else.
🌍 Suffering the FOMO?
(Pssst, this is where you should be right now!)
🧗 Granite season down south
📍 Cajón de Arenales — Argentina
Tucked deep in the Andes somewhere between Santiago Chile and Mendoza Argentina is the Cajón de Arenales, a quiet granite playground of clean cracks, splitter faces, and long alpine-feeling days without the crowds.
Southern summer is prime time — dry rock, long light, and endless lines waiting to be linked.
Follow Arenales Piedra Libre for more info!
🚴🏽♂️ Ilhabela — Brazil’s tropical singletrack playground
📍 Ilhabela — São Paulo, Brazil
Ilhabela isn’t just beaches and waves — the island’s an Atlantic forest with climbs and descents that make it a serious mountain-biking destination with rugged trails, steep forest terrain, and classic coastal singletrack that flows from jungle ridges down toward the sea.
The rugged relief of the region favors challenging singletracks and epic rides through greenery and ocean views that’ll haunt your dreams until you’re on a bike there yourself.
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This place is summer-every-day riding at its most scenic and committed.
We leave you with an epic run of skijoring (yes, that horses + skis) from the January event in Ridgeway, Colorado!
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Solid curation of whats happening in the adventure space right now. The Fitz Roy BASE jump is massive, been hearing rumors about attempts on that tower for years but Patagonian weather windows are brutal. The fact they pushed Royal Flush in three days and got the exit is wild, dunno many people who'd committo that linkup. Also appreciate the shoutout to street skiing in Finland, that scene gets slept on but those crews have been quietly pushing urban progression for decades.