Big Jim on Mount Everest

We’ve never published an article like this before. The story of the first American team to climb Everest and how they established one of the most daring routes in the Himalayas, told in rich multimedia.

Outside magazine tells the tale of the “effusive six-foot-five-inch store manager” who became “the first American to climb the world’s tallest mountain,” in an attractive bundle of audio, video, photography, GIFs (I think), floaty footnotes, and text. Making Outside magazine now its own sort of Big Jim, if multimedia pieces like this are their own kind of Everests? Ehh? Anyway, it all seems terrifying. (“I’ve been trying to remember what we ate.”) Worth it for the pictures alone, too.

See also: Abandoned on Everest.