Rock and Ice

"During the fall this twist migrated onto my lead line creating a ton of friction which effectively tied me off on that side and slammed me into the wall."

An Ed Douglas biography Tenzing Norgay is slated to be adapted for the screen by Netflix, and to be produced by the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions.

"Under the Big Mountain" is a social rock climbing project undertaken in Monjo, Nepal, featuring Lucho Birkner and the late JP Mohr. (Mohr disappeared on K2 in February 2021.)

Marwan Maayta takes a whip on Jordan Express (8b/5.13d). It is at a crag called Iraq al-Damaj, in the governorate of Ajloun, in the north or Jordan.

Himali is a company that’s trying to make a difference but also makes great garments. That’s something we can get behind.

From shoes to cams, piolets to jackets to pants, BD's got you covered top to bottom with these items.

Carlo Alberto “Cala” Cimenti and Patrick Negro died early this week, buried in an avalanche near their homes in Italy. Cimenti, in particular, was a hero among Italian mountaineers, widely known for cutting-edge ski descents around the world.

Writes Alex Megos, "On a rainy day in the Grampians, Australia, Andi Barth and I decided to brush off all the charcoal graffiti in the Hollow Mountain Cave."

Helmet would've been a good idea...

Backcountry makes some solid apparel at even better prices.

Two Indian climbers, Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami, accused of faking a 2016 Everest summit, were banned from any further climbs by the Nepalese government

For 25 years, Fred Rouhling’s masterpiece Akira sat nearly untouched, unrepeated. Then Seb Bouin and Lucien Martinez came along.