This was some of the most atrocious beta I’d ever seen. Not only was this climber pointlessly not using kneepads, apparently he was also eschewing the techniques of “back step” and “drop...
One of the oddest episodes to emerge in pandemic times is how people caught the panic-shopping bug before ever catching covid-19. This particular sickness manifested as an inexplicable urge to buy butt-loads...
In 2012, Hayden Kennedy, Kyle Dempster, and Josh Wharton took on one of the world’s most formidable mountains: Baintha Brakk (23,901 feet), AKA The Ogre.
This infamy was initially earned in 1977 when...
“If you lived in the U.K. in the 1970s/‘80s, you would think every top climber in the country had died in the Himalaya,” says Dougald MacDonald, editor of American Alpine Journal. Dougal...
There are two types of climbers: those who take grades seriously and those who pretend not to care.
Most climbers would admit that grades are subjective (“of course!”)… but push them on that...
Like many climbers on Instagram, I opened the app the other day and saw Daniel Woods’ latest post staring back at me. No, like, literally staring at me.
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Tasty black streaks of limestone make the heart sing. Jonathan Siegrist explores a hidden gem of a crag in Western Colorado--the aptly named God's Crag.
Enjoy this flick from Epic TV, and...
It’s hard to separate the art from the context in which it appears, and unfortunately just about everything I process these days passes through the filter of the outrageous culture war embroiling...
Dragon Alliance is a surf brand out of California that is making some eco-friendly sunglasses that, hell, even we climbers might love. In fact, I do. I test-drove a pair of the...
While we recommend that strength training using additional weights should be done on its own, bodyweight exercises can be performed as part of the warm-up or at the end of a climbing...
Lying in my tent, listening to “No Hard Feelings” by The Avett Brothers, I went through a mental list of every person I loved in this world and pictured them smiling. Occasionally...
Only paradoxes can contain the power and magnitude of the universe and its truth. Ideologues and activists seek to advance their reductionist views of politics, life, art, and sport but all their...
One of my favorite boulder problems in the world is the “Rebirthing Simulator” in Yosemite, in which a climber begins at the top of the boulder, climbs headfirst down an off-width crack,...
Earlier this year, a group of Palestinian climbers and a few international friends hiked out to a local crag near the West Bank city of Ramallah to climb, camp, and enjoy a...
