Crystal Davis-Robbins was jumaring the first gully on Cerro Domo Blanco, in Patagonia, when a rock the size of a softball careened down....

Joe Josephson phoned with an interesting proposal: Fred Beckey had come to town for a reunion of Montana's Dirty Sox Club, a guild of Montana climbers from the 1960s through the 1980s.

If anyone has earned an honorary membership in a group named Dirty Sox it is Washington's Fred Beckey, sovereign of American DirtBag Climbers. ...

As a student, my mother was in the streets of London on the Queen's coronation day 55 years ago when the news broke across the top of the crowds that ......

The kid who soloed BOHICA....

A storm was a'brewin.' I felt it in my trick knee well that, and I was with Dave Graham in Calgary, Canada, where it had rained for three days, which translates to no climbing. It might get ugly. Dave is a fiery ball of motivation and determination, and if he doesn't have an outlet, and fast, there's gonna be trouble....

Margarita Martinez Enjoys the Sweet Life...

Connecticut Yankee breaks from the pack...

Sam Elias has lit up the probable third ascent of Red Bull (M11), Vail, Colorado, after only mixed climbing for roughly one season, and only climbing three years total....

Steve Dieckhoff started climbing in the late 1960s when climbing meant you tied in at the base and went up. This simplistic, purist's approach burned ......

Standing backstage on the set of the Cirque du Soleil production Love, I'm surrounded by sumptuous props and a cast of chiseled humans who look as if ......

SONNIE TROTTER HAS made a mission of climbing the world's hardest naturally protected routes, and last year he set his sights on repeating Dave MacLeo......

A series of number-three Big Bros spanned the crack below Marin, and the crack was so steep he couldn’t wedge his body into it. If I blow it, he thought, and they all blow out, I’m dead....

The “Glamorous Life” of the Climber Who Soloed the Zion Testpiece....

Jasmin Caton pulled the haul bag the final feet up onto Heart Ledge, El Capitan, and Amelia Patterson tied it off. Sweating from the heat and from hauling up the slabs on the Salathe, they took off their helmets and sank onto the ledge....

It's fall, but the Red River Gorge is so humid we're all looking for a break from the heat. The lights are finally set for a portrait I'm taking of a big name, 5.14-sending sponsored athlete, when over walks Nelson Carayannis, a climber of considerably less talent and strength. Carayannis, casually gripping a Gatorade bottle, asks if I'm ready. ...

It was a perfectly normal day at a climbing gym in Colorado Springs when Chris Alstrin, then 22, began complaining about a pain in his neck. Thankfull......

Kyle Dempster and friends had been moving for 14 hours on the unclimbed Xuelian West, a 6,400-meter peak in the Tien Shan, when he found himself on an M6 pitch at 17,000 feet, spindrift ripping down all around, and his last cam 20 feet below his boots....

Alexandra Kordick on The Path (5.13c), at Rifle.In the 1940s, a young woman named Mireya Hernandez earned masters' degrees in both mathematics and che......

Born in East Germany, Ines Papert is one of the world's top all-arounders, male or female. At the 2010 Ouray mixed comp, this 35-year-old single mot......

Dave Waggoner, a mountaineering warrior and the inventor of Alien cams, died of cancer on October 7, at age 53, in his home in Laramie, Wyoming....