A cursed list of all the climbing terms no one, literally no one, ever asked for.
A cursed list of all the climbing terms no one, literally no one, ever asked for.
“It’s weird being the same age as old people,” the saying goes. Time can slip away from you without you even realizing it. I mean, it’s almost the 10th anniversary of the Dawn Wall’s first ascent, and that still feels like a current event in my mind. Anyway, I write...
The Scarpa Quantic is a stripped down, slightly downturned, slightly asymmetric and highly breathable shoe.
At some point in the course of climbing’s history, the idea of equating tighter shoes with higher performance became a truth as unassailable as the granite of El Cap. The culture of tight shoes took hold in the community, persuading generation upon generation to...
Our neoliberal world order has trained us to expect that everything we purchase and own is fungible. As such, I am pleasantly surprised when I come across a product that is so well made, constructed with such skill and care, that it outlives the albeit low...
Palestinian climbers are now able to compete World Cups, thanks to the IFSC. But what about those committing crimes against them?
It’s also a fallacy. And it makes people confused about what lies within our power to change.
Pros should stick to what they do best: climbing hard. And leave the business of figuring out how hard what they’ve climbed to us.
In our achievement-obsessed culture, sometimes it’s good to embrace the absurd for its own sake, things like writing about climbing
The National Park Service and US Forest Service agencies have each introduced proposals for how they’d like to start managing climbing access. The proposals, which are virtually identical, seek to re-define bolts as prohibited “installations,” thereby making them...
How did we let this gumby malapropism leak out of the gym and into the wild?
After climbing all 14 8,000-meter peaks, with oxygen, in about three months—a climbing record of some significance—Kristin Harila said that she’s probably “done with climbing now.” What’s next? She says she’ll be parlaying her stint as a mountaineer into professional...