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• August 21, 2010 Spitsbergen Ski Cruise 2011

  Intimate ski mountaineering trip aboard a 10 passenger 65 ft sailing vessel.  Spend your days exploring untouched terrain -- what ski mountaineers who have traveled the world say is some of the best they have ever experienced. Choose from 2 different 8 day itineraries: May 21-29, 2011 // May 28-June 5, 2011 Cost: $7600 per person * Flights to [...]

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• June 19, 2010 Storm Adventures Offers Summer Norway Cruises

  Storm Adventures offers Summer Norway Cruises This August, Ice Axe partners with Storm adventures and invites you to experience the beauty and contrasts of Svalbard, Norway aboard an ice-class Swedish Search and Rescue boat. Participate in the action packed itineraries or simply indulge in some much needed time-out against a backdrop of breath-taking scenery. Spend your week [...]

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• June 2, 2010 Doug & Ice Axe featured on ESPN.com

  How do you describe a two-week ski expedition that involves a 10-hour, 150-mile snowmobile approach, climbing and descending giant, virgin couloirs in pink light from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., in front of Warren Miller cameras, on a Norwegian island 500 miles south of the North Pole, where polar bears are [...]

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• April 12, 2010 Doug reaches North Pole with Parker Liautaud

  After 8 days of some of the worst conditions I have witnessed on the arctic ocean, Parker and I had to call off the expedition due to a large open water lead many miles long that was impossible to get around to achieve our goal. Throughout the week, Parker and I encountered significant negative southward [...]

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• January 18, 2010 North Pole 2010

  Polar Resolutions? North Pole 2010: April 11 to 22, 2010 Space Still Available  What's on your list for 2010? Dream big and reach the North Pole in 2010. Ice Axe Expeditions still has positions on its North Pole Expedition Team for April 11 to 22, 2010. Travel via ski over frozen ice fields from the 89 degree to [...]

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• October 13, 2009 The Amazon Awaits!

  Come join the ICE AXE Crew for The AMAZON RAINFOREST Expedition Jan 24-Feb 6, 2010. ICE AXE led an incredible amazon Expedition in 2007 and returns this year for another exciting expedition up the Rio Negro fishing for peacock bass, piranha, and view some most amazing wildlife such as Tucans, monkeys and caimon. This expedition will be unique [...]

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• October 12, 2009 Ice Axe and WOHI Host NYC Fundraiser

  Doug Stoup and Monica Westin hosted a fundraising party at the penthouse apartment of Brian Mehling on September 22, 2009. Dr. Mehling was extremely generous to donate the space to support the efforts of World of Hope International and the Ice Axe Foundation. It was a wonderful fall evening overlooking the beautiful Manhattan sky line. Attendees were United [...]

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• August 4, 2009 Turns All Year: Mt. Adams & Mt. Rainier

  Photos and story by Kristoffer Erickson  On July 11th my partner Jamie Laidlaw and I ascended the North facing Adams Glacier route on Mt. Adams. We had originally planned to just ski the one route but found ourselves on the summit with hours to burn before conditions softened on the northern aspect. Instead of waiting,  we [...]

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• July 20, 2009 Ice Axe’s Glen Poulsen and John Morrison Summit Denali

  The summer of 2009 is full of successful summits for the Ice Axe team. On June 25, 2009 Glen and John successfully summited Denali and celebrated with a fantastic ski descent down. Read more about their journey below. Skiing Denali 2009 Story and Photos by John Morrison When April hit this year I felt winter had really just started.  [...]

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• July 18, 2009 Ice Axe Foundation Partners with Bob Barboza and Kids Talk Radio

  Doug Stoup has been working closely with Bob Baroza and Kids Talk Radio in Long Beach, CA. Doug and Bob are working together to bring students on adventurers to the Antarctic Peninsula and the Amazon Rainforest this coming fall and winter. The program will take students from Long Beach and Watts, CA to the Antarctic [...]

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• July 8, 2009 Ice Axe’s Kip Garre & Andrew McLean Summit Mt. Foraker

  Andrew McLean and Kip Garre successfully summited Mt. Foraker (5304 m) in Denali National Park on June 8, 2009. Outstanding job guys! Read Kip's account of the expedition here. Mt Foraker Story by Kip Garre, photos by Fred Marmsater www.silentsummits.com Walking into the Forest Service office in Talketna Alaska the numbers spoke clear, 1105 climbers were registered to [...]

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• June 8, 2009 Ice Axe Alum John Griber Summits Everest

  Congratulations to John Griber who summited Everest on May 23, 2009 with the First Ascent expedition team. This is John's second  sucessful summit of Everest, his first in May 2007.

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• June 8, 2009 2009 Antarctic Peninsula Expedition

  Join Ice Axe Expeditions in November 2009 for an adventure driven expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Ski, trek or actively explore our Southernmost continent with an international cast of professional and extreme athletes in addition to expert Antarctic historians and scientists. Daily shore landings, lectures and zodiac excursions will cover the history, biology, geology and [...]

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• April 20, 2009 Two Feet on the Table Reaches Pole in Record Time

  On April 16, 2009 The Two Feet on the Table expedition reached the Geographic North Pole faster than any Last Degree team in recent history. Temperatures averaged -30 degrees Celcius with winds coming in from the northeast. Positive drift and positive attitudes helped the team reach the pole a full day ahead of  any other teams on [...]

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• March 1, 2009 Doug Points North

  Doug will join Ice Axe alumni Kevin and Jessica Quinn March 14-21 at their heli-ski operation in Cordova, Alaska. http://www.alaskaheliski.com

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