Todd Skinner, one of rock climbing's greatest pioneers and visionaries, is remembered....

There is a photograph of Tom Patey taken on the Old Man of Hoy, a 450-foot pinnacle of rock standing in the ocean off the north coast of Scotland....

The World's Best Reveals His Health And Training Secrets...

Correspondence with the controversial rock climbing soloist Michael Reardon, before his death when he was swept out to sea by a rouge wave in Ireland....

The alpinists and ice climbers Max Turgeon and Louis-Philippe Ménard share their secrets for success in Canada and what it's like to climb on the world stage....

Kurt Albert invented the redpoint and developed much of our attitude about modern free climbing. Here, in a 1993 interview where he talks about free climbing's origins and questionable tactics such as chipping....

Josh Wharton is one of our most accomplished, least recognized alpinists. Embracing a disaster style of minimal equipment and a bold go-for-it attitude, he's amassed a roster of big ticks the likes of which you've never heard....

John Rosholt, longtime climber and professional gambler disappeared in Las Vegas in 2005. What happened?...

John Long relives the adventures of the Stonemasters when they first began rock climbing at Pirates Cove at Newport Beach, California....

In the mid-1970s, John Bachar set out to become a legend. Soloing harder and harder routes, Bachar quickly outpaced the rest of the world only to find himself isolated by his staunch belief in the traditional ethic. Now, at 50, Bachar has come to uneasy terms with sport climbing. Or has he?...

Free soloist Michael Reardon dies in a freak accident, and is remembered by John Bachar....

John Bachar's friend and rival Henry Barber recounts their competition to make the first ascent of a difficult rock climbing in Yosemite in the late 1970s....

John Bachar leaves the indelible stamp of the generation active from the mid-1970s into the 1980s. Many of them are gone or retired now, but Bachar, and what he meant to climbing, will remain. ...

Climbing pioneer Doug Robinson reflects on the death of John Bachar...

Recounting the first ascent of the Bachar-Yerian....

Tales of the Legendary British Climber....

The first time Alex Puccio tried to join her climbing team, she didn't get far. Alex, now 17, from McKinney, Texas, had just started climbing at the Exposure gym....

The myth of Oliver Moon changed the face of Yosemite climbing forever....

If you had to pinpoint the one element from which all else fanned out around Galen Rowell, prolific climber-photographer-author, it was energy: intense, propulsive, and everyday. ...

In 2001, Leo Houlding and Jason Pickles made an audacious ground-up, no-drill, on-sight attempt to free climb a new route on El Cap. Nine years later, The Prophet finally spoke....