Stories

A low evening sun is cutting through the valley, highlighting the Squamish Chief and neighboring Shannon Falls.

Progress or respect in first ascents?

An Unrepeated Wall Has Forces We Do Not Understand.

It was a hot and relentless summer in Moab, but Lyzz and I were hanging tough, trying to pry a living out of a tourist economy. I guided, and Lyzz too...

Paige Claassen is surprisingly unknown, considering. Alex Johnson, 19, the women's winner at the Bouldering World Cup in Vail, Colorado, in June, said after the event, Paige would have crushed!

By the time you read this, I'll be married, which for most people is a welcome event, a joyous occasion. That's the public face I put on it, because t...

The first three words I ever heard spoken by Steph Davis were yelled at the top of her lungs.ONE, TWO, THREE!She flew off the top of the Tombstone, ...

Kevin Jorgeson has gotten in more trouble off the rock than on, which, if you consider his penchant for high bouldering, is saying something.Jorgeson,...

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).

In a tragic loss to both the Arizona climbing community and her large circles of family and friends, Kelly S. Bell died early Sunday morning on June 1, only 10 days short of her 38th birthday.

Formerly of Watertown, Massachusetts, Paul Duval died on June 24 in a rappelling accident near Moonlight Ridge, Custer, South Dakota.