The Cuban Climbing Scene Continues to Grow Despite the Risk of Incarceration Posed by an Unforgiving Communist Government. A Group of Americans Discover Climbing as Passive Resistance...

Constructing New York's Modern Highballs....

Late last winter, Masatoshi Kuriaki awoke alone, more amazed than rattled as an explosion shook the glacier beneath his tent. He listened intently as a gargantuan slab of ice roared off Big Bertha, the infamous hanging glacier on Denali's south face. The phenomenal displacement of air began....

In a place defined by vertical geometry, I am the lone exception.

As a climber of decades, I am no stranger to seemingly insane positions and situations, the kinds of things that predictably and, I admit, satisfyingly cause sightseers to unhinge their jaws....

Mallorca and the Climbing Renaissance of a Generation...

The last five years have seen an extraordinary resurgence of extreme traditional climbing in Britain, with a slew of E9s (5.13/5.14 X), onsight E8 (5.13 X) and the breakthrough grade of E11 (5.14c R/X). Surprisingly, the leaders of this great leap forward....

They came from all across the globe. Today they come simply seeking South America's answer to the Alps. Regardless, this unknown corner of Argentina shaped modern alpinism as we know it....

Tales of the Legendary British Climber....

Turning your climbing photography passion into cash...

What is the sound of living the dream? It's hushed morning stillness. The peaceful silence of not waking up to an alarm clock. Rolling out from under the soft sheets when the mood strikes, tossing back scalding Joe then hitting the crag and sending until your fingers knot up into your palms....

Five Climbers Living and Working their Dream Jobs....

For any gymnast worth his weight in spandex onesies, the front lever is as basic as a layback. For climbers, on the other hand, the front lever is a royally difficult pose that very few of us could do off the couch....

They say that good things come in small packages, but the Dolomites of northern Italy are great things in a very big package....

The scorched desert expanse surrounding Las Vegas smears together into one terrible brown color as Chris Sharma, Dalia Ojeda, Miguel and I whiz along at 90 miles per hour in an old Jeep Grand Cherokee. The American West, this celebrated frontier, as tame as it has become with commercialism and super highways, is still the last good place I know of for real adventure....

How long has it been since you noticed a real improvement in your climbing? If it has been a year or two, then you are probably still reaping the benefits of your previous breakthrough....

That Charlie Fowler would meet his end while doing what he loved is no huge surprise given the sheer volume of his climbing. At age 52, he'd racked up three and a half decades of it, and had carried his quiet air of a seasoned survivor from hard rock to the high-risk games of alpine climbing and soloing. ...

The luck of finding the perfect line leads to a fall from grace....

Don't tell me you're not competitive. You're a climber, you love competition. Sport climbers and boulderers compete by chasing routes with bigger numbers, often with little regard for the history of a route, and subsequently log on to the world's most popular climbing website, 8a.nu, to catalog them....

Rooting around for precious gems in the deep & dirty south....

How to beat the scourge of climbing....