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Andrew Bisharat
Andrew Bisharat is a writer and climber based in western Colorado. He is the publisher of Evening Sends and the co-host of The RunOut podcast.
A Climber’s Right to the Joy of Travel
TLDR: Four Palestinian climbers from the film "Resistance Climbing" have a pretty special opportunity to travel and climb with us here in Colorado, and we are looking for help from the climbing community to help cover the costs of this climbing trip. And if you give...
Lucky, Competent, and Crazy: Tom Hornbein and the West Ridge
Sixty years ago, Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, who passed away on Saturday at age 92 in his home in Estes Park, reached the summit of Everest via an audacious first ascent of the West Ridge. This ascent still stands as one of the all-time greats of mountaineering...
The Scolds Who Hate The Thought Of Anyone Else Climbing
I live in Western Colorado and have a view from my house in New Castle of a geological formation called the Grand Hogback, a spiny 70-mile long ridge that demarcates the line between the Colorado plateau to the west and the Southern Rocky Mountains to the east. I love...
El Gavilan: Nine Pitches in a Magic Desert
A trip to climb El Gavilan (5.13b) on La Popa in Los Remotos, Mexico, introduces the climbers to magic forces they do not understand
Necessary And Not Evil: Why Bolts Are Good, Actually
My friend beamed. He had just returned from pulling Excalibur from the stone, by which I mean he had just chopped a couple of anchor bolts. They weren’t just any bolts; they were “convenience bolts,” surreptitiously added to a historic moderate multi-pitch. Some local...
Endurance Tips from a 90-Pound Teen Who Never Gets Pumped
Evaluating expertise in a culture awash in self-styled experts and gurus requires may require even more skepticism.
Why Are Climbing Holds So Big?
Climbing gyms have over-indexed on hilariously large climbing holds which detract from the pure climbing experience.
The Last Iconoclast: Ammon McNeely
The best big wall climber, in many ways, was also the last
Why Does Climbing Keep Losing its Soul?
An article un-ironically titled “How Climbing Gyms Lost Their Soul” has been circulating my social media feeds last week, evoking a handful of rather negative reviews from some readers who seem to be, for a variety of reasons, tweaked by the title. My initial reaction...
The Roll Recovery R1 Percussion Massager Hits the Spot
The Roll Recovery R1 is a light, compact, and affordable massaging tool that makes it easy to hit those hard to reach spots.
The Future of Climbing Guides Must Be Open Source
Making route beta open source is an effort worth waging — and making sure that we get it right