I am now ready to tell my firsthand encounter of being left alone to die this last May on Everest. It is a true story with no details embellished. I am willing to sell my story and photos to the party willing to pay the most for a story about human greed and the fight for survival....

Turns out the hardest crag of all is indoors...

I hoped that my best friend would fall. Not just my climbing partner but my best friend. We were both working on an unclimbed route at The Columns, our local climbing area in Eugene, Oregon, and I wanted the first ascent. ...

I still never finish a climbing trip without planning the next one. For 20 years, climbing is what has kept me mentally and physically driven. In Janua......

Mount Saint Elias was named in honor of an Old Testament prophet, given the name by the Russian explorer Vitus Bering who, presumably, was a religious......

I was nearly nodding off at the belay when I heard it. The sun sets early in Yosemite Valley, especially in the dregs of October, and we had been racing the darkness -- and mostly losing -- every night on the Nose of El Capitan....

The fine art of sending your dream routes without really trying

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It was a hot and relentless summer in Moab, but Lyzz and I were hanging tough, trying to pry a living out of a tourist economy. I guided, and Lyzz too......

By the time you read this, I'll be married, which for most people is a welcome event, a joyous occasion. That's the public face I put on it, because t......