Features

Six-time filmmaker creates "empathy with someone who is different"

Hans Florine writes about what the recovery from his leg-breaking, ankle-shattering fall six months ago has been like: the lessons, the difficulties and the road back to the Nose.

While the fabled 10th Mountain Division doesn't train for the mountains quite like they used to, the Army hasn't completely abandoned the high country. And the stories of the 10th's heyday are as good as they come.

Steve House reflects on how far ahead of his time Messner was, in the mountains of his home in Europe and in the Himalaya.

Finally Free: Skinner and Piana's First Free Ascent of the Salathé Wall

Kurt Albert defined free climbing and took it to the remote mountains of the world. Behind the stories of wild adventures and great deeds, there was something exemplary in the life cut short.

Todd Skinner, one of rock climbing's greatest pioneers and visionaries, is remembered.

I’m not a badass trad climber. Actually, I don’t own a single cam, tri-cam, nut tool or gear sling. My rack consists of 15 quickdraws and, when I’m pumped and cruxing, I grab them.

Michael Kennedy's firsthand account of the fabled assault on Latok I's North Ridge in 1978.

Climbers are on the front lines of witnessing climate change. We can do more to help.

Kelly Tufo and Dave Kellogg were making the final moves up a four-pitch route at Tahquitz, California, when things suddenly went awry. Seconds later, both lay dying at the base of the cliff, still roped together, one with an equalized belay sling at his waist. What could have gone so wrong?  

PRINT FEATURE: One of climbing's all-time greats, Jerry Moffatt, digs into the mindset required for success in comps and on the rock.