Stories

In the last 25 years, no piece of gear has been more influential to the sport of climbing than artificial gym/training holds.

China is rising. Everyone says so. Business experts cite imminent Chinese takeover as the result of our stupidity, laziness and poor monetary habits. Fox News utters the country's name in hushed tones and with terror, as if the boogeyman in the closet is no longer afraid to show his face, and we need to call for our mommies.

A quiet ground-up movement is underway in Yosemite Valley, with new routes going up every month.

You climb like a one-legged girl!ΠMost people would take this as an insult, but it's a compliment to Heidi Duce.ΠThe 17-year-old high school senior spends every weekend wielding an axe and hugging the frozen walls around Ouray, Colorado.

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.

Sitting in a friend’s living room in Saint George, Utah, I was showing a group of climbers my photography when one, whom I had met for the first time 30 minutes prior, proceeded to rip my work a new one, only to compliment it in the same breath.

Those who remember the days when trad climbing was simply called climbing are watching the headlines, immobilized with fear.

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...

"I can't believe I'm having this conversation! I said, surprising myself by saying it out loud.

If you’ve climbed, you’ve likely done a Layton Kor route. There’s the Kor/Ingalls on Castleton Tower, the Finger of Fate on the Titan, and innumerable routes throughout Colorado, Yosemite and the West.

Over 200 people gathered to celebrate Fred Beckey’s 86th birthday on January 24.

Say it isn’t so! Chris Sharma is now into … aid climbing?