Tuesday Night Bouldering

Perched high, Joanne saw the rope snake out from her harness and pull off into the air. She screamed and grabbed at it futilely.

Before I die, I want to... What would you scrawl in that space if given the opportunity and a stick of chalk? Something about someone? Places you want to visit? Faces you yearn to climb?

Raphael Slawinski, one of Canada’s leading alpinists, was attempting a new route on the Northeast Face of Everest when the earthquake rocked Nepal on April 25. This is his account.

Chris Sharma is way too young for a midlife crisis, but there he was, strolling the aisles of this year’s Outdoor Retailer show with bright-gold hair. What?!

It was spring break. My wife had taken the kids to Florida. I felt like a teenager home alone with the keys to the car. The possibilities were dizzying...

The Conga Line moved slowly up the north side of Mount Meru. Overhead, the Asian sun blazed on the windless day. Ahead, one of the Japanese stopped, turned and snapped a selfie. “Tourists!” I said to myself...

As a climber, I found the opportunity too good to pass up. Free housing, free laundry service, three free meals a day. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Climber suicides, those who tried to help, and why we should talk about it.

Few feelings trump that glorious moment when, with an outstretched hand clutching a bite of rope, you clip the chains of a climb you have put serious effort and thought into...

Rock and Ice editor, Jeff Jackson, discovers some "magical" climbing in Hawaii.

I’ve been hearing about how comp climbing is the future of climbing for as long I’ve been writing about climbing...

Rock and Ice's Editor in Chief Duane Raleigh recounts his first major epic, in 1981, when he and two friends decided to take a run at the Nose, with minimal gear, makeshift headlamps and no real big-wall experience to speak of.