Andrew Bisharat

Routes belong to us all. That should include their names.

What is “cheating” when it comes to using performance enhancers or drugs like dexamethasone?

Maybe climbers should have been doing some of these things---social distancing, using hand sanitizer, etc.---all along, writes Andrew Bisharat, in this week's "Between The Lines."

Climbing is "hardly the most pressing issue at the moment," writes Andrew Bisharat.

"Being a climber means learning how to grieve lives that are constantly getting cut short."

The second installment of "Between the Lines," Andrew Bisharat's new weekly column for Rock and Ice. Check back for a new article every Thursday!

Andrew Bisharat is back with a new weekly column, "Between the Lines," for Rock and Ice!

Andrew Bisharat dissects the art of the gear review, and relates some of his more memorable (mis)adventures during the process of gear testing.

Climbers are always “injured,” and we endure these perpetually compromised states with the grace of a World Cup soccer player writhing around on the ground like he was just stabbed in the groin with a fork. Fingers, elbows, shoulders, knees, ankles, skin, balls and brains—you can be sure that, among climbers, at least one of these things is either sore, torn or simply just not working.

It is our deepest desire and oldest challenge to understand where we came from, and thus, who we are.

The definitive guide to being a rotting degenerate.

I keep this jacket in my climbing pack because there’s no reason not to bring it everywhere.