Epics

The climber driving the ambulance was only trying to help the climber who had fallen on his head.

Return of the Very Serious Climber—older yet eternally questing. And now, on 8a.nu.

The ring of a hammer hitting a drill bit bounced down Gunsight Gully in Yosemite. Mad Dog's mullet flapped in the breeze as he swore about having to sink another bristler. Balanced at a small stance with the help of two hooks, Mad Dog (née Dana Drummond) wailed on the drill.

Kyle and I had been moving for over 18 hours, skiing five miles of glacier and climbing 3,100 feet of the convoluted south west ridge of Peak 11300 in Alaska. The setting sun bathed the peaks in a soft, rosy light. As Kyle rappelled to a small col in the ridge, where we planned to bivy, I snapped a few pictures and smiled.

I never told Scott the wind story.ΠI crawled back into the tent, shivering, and was so bundled up in my down parka that he couldn't see the fear that...

The List is stupid. Why the heck would you even think like this?No one cares.Climbing won't change anything. It won't change politics, global warming ...

Of course it was a bad idea, but even the guide considered it safe. He bought 400 rupees’ worth. So did some of my Sherpa friends. The interpreter planned to give it to her parents to improve digestion, eyesight and stamina. Why not try a piece?

I am now ready to tell my firsthand encounter of being left alone to die this last May on Everest. It is a true story with no details embellished. I am willing to sell my story and photos to the party willing to pay the most for a story about human greed and the fight for survival.

I hoped that my best friend would fall. Not just my climbing partner but my best friend. We were both working on an unclimbed route at The Columns, our local climbing area in Eugene, Oregon, and I wanted the first ascent.

Turns out the hardest crag of all is indoors

I still never finish a climbing trip without planning the next one. For 20 years, climbing is what has kept me mentally and physically driven.

Mount Saint Elias was named in honor of an Old Testament prophet, given the name by the Russian explorer Vitus Bering who, presumably, was a religious...