Destinations

"What is buttery sickness'?" asks Guili, my friend from Brazil who is visiting Wyoming. His English is very good, but this one's stumped him.

I landed in Austin on July 3rd at 7 p.m. The pilot announced that it was 101 degrees. The heat index was 109.EP, a droll Irish Texan, son of a cop, mi...

2009 season highlighted by the first free ascent of Cerro Capicúa, 4,000-foot 5.12d.

Who says global warming is putting the kibosh on ice climbing? Certainly not a small but active crew of climbers in Virginia.

Eastern versions of the new old tradition

"The best story I know of Bridalveil Falls," says Vince Anderson, "involves a couple of friends who ended up in an all-night chase through the forest, eventually eluding the police."

In 1981 John Bachar cast off into the uncharted expanse of Mendlicott Dome, a steep 500-foot, knob-spackled granite face in Tuolumne Meadows, California, with nothing but a hand drill and bolts, some slings, hooks and cams. Climbing onsight and belayed by Dave Yerian, he established the litmus test for runout climbing, the Bachar-Yerian (5.11c R).