Projecting hard sport climbs is a fantastic way to improve your performance. But without the right kind of awareness about the ways in which you are self-conscious, projecting can become for some climbers a deceptive way to evade facing your deepest weaknesses and...
The La Sportiva Mantra is one of the best ultra-sensitive slippers on the market and I highly recommend it for gym climbing and training.
The Mammut Crag Rope Bag is a unique and functional rope bag that also gives you the option to go light and fast.
Climbing culture is about to get really weird in 2023.
As AI takes care of producing endless reams of content, human climbing writers will be forced to focus on writing the stuff worth reading
What a recent “ascent” of El Cap by a young kid says about our culture and priorities for kids in the climbing and beyond.
Elnaz Rekabi showed us how her presence is a form of resistance. But does her example shed new light on Russian climbers’ ban from the IFSC?
The conversation about whether Snake Dike, a classic 5.7 route on the west face of Half Dome, should be updated with more bolts after a horrific accident earlier this year, has gone off the rails. I have yet to hear a bomber argument for why this route should be...
The Sportiva TX2 Evo is as close to a technical climbing shoe as an approach shoe can get, especially when they’re worn without socks.
In 2005, Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden free-climbed the Nose—each leading or following every pitch free. This was big news at the time. According to most, Tommy and Beth had become the second and third people after Lynn Hill to successfully free-climb the Nose....
An article in The New Yorker famously defined van life it as a “bohemian social media movement” and “a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected...
Hilaree Nelson O’Neill’s body has been recovered on the south side of Manaslu. I assume Jim Morrison, her partner in life and ski mountaineering, will now arrange to bring her body home to Colorado, home to her two kids, home to a community reeling in grief from yet...