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
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Project Thirteen: Climbing 5.13 Around the World After 50
Jim Lawyer didn’t climb 5.13 until he hit his 50s. Then he realized one wouldn’t be enough.
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Why Palestinians Can’t Climb Free
In 2019, a group of Palestinian climbers and a few international friends hiked out to a local crag...
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Climbing in the Verdon
Standing at the rim of the Verdon Gorge in southern France, Alan Carne rigged his rappel. He...
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Almighty Dolomites
“There’s people down here!” “Yeah, watch it, you Austrian pigs!” Jesse Mattner and I were yelling...
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