Professional big-mountain skier Griffin Post has an affinity for books about outdoor adventurers from bygone eras. A few years ago, Post began reading about Bradford Washburn, one of the pioneers of ...

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An amazing discovery over eight decades in the making has been found on the snow-covered slopes of Canada’s northern frontier. A cache of equipment, left by legendary American mountaineer Bradford ...

The quest for lost treasures has long been a staple of travel legend. So has the idea of ill-fated exploration expeditions. Now, seven months after the discovery of Ernest Shackleton’s ship HMS ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In June of 1937, a bush pilot lifted off from the Walsh Glacier in Canada’s Yukon Territory, leaving behind legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn and ...

Explorers Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates traveled to the remote Yukon wilderness in 1937 to climb Mount Lucania, but the month of bad weather that preceded their trip had left the Walsh Glacier, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1937, legendary mountaineers Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates were exploring in Canada's frigid Yukon region when they had to ...