Inside Beta

With all the info you need to apply: deadlines, websites with eligibility requirements and more.

Check out Delaney Miller's author page.

Hans “Hollywood” Florine and Pete “Pedro” Hoffmeister come back from devastating injuries to race each other in a brutal endurance challenge at a small urban crag.

Climbing gyms used to be little more than glorified garages. Now they are projected to be a $1 billion business—how did this happen?

How skill and luck may be making (or breaking) your climbing career

An excerpt from the English translation of the classic French novel about the lives of mountain guides in the French Alps in the 1920s and 1930s.

Climbing is already used in certain countries as a tool to treat clinical depression---but this psychology student hopes to prove that everyone can benefit emotionally from moving on the wall.

El Capitan, Yosemite, Unpublished, 1964

It took an injury for Beth Goralski to rediscover the reasons she fell in love with ice climbing to begin with.

Check out Dierdre Wolownick's author page.

Economist and data-wizard Chris Ring digs in: Is being tall an advantage for climbers? Is there a perfect height that's the sweet spot for climbing hard?

Tony Howard’s new autobiography, Quest into the Unknown, covers Tony and his wife, Di’s, travels across North Africa, the Middle East, Scandinavia, Canada, South East Asia, South Georgia, Antarctica and beyond. Famous for the first British ascent of Norway's Troll Wall and designing the modern sit harness, Tony has dedicated his life to traveling around the world with Di in search of unclimbed rock and remote trekking adventures.