chris parker

Not to be confused with the Dawn Wall—a 5.14d on El Capitan—#Dawnwall is actually something less quantifiable and slightly more perplexing for climbers.

A hotbed for underground talents and colorful characters, Durango, Colorado, continues to yield fine crags and cutting-edge boulder fields.

I didn’t want to type the words, but I had to. Hesitantly, I plunked out the first sentence, Italian climbing prodigy Tito Claudio Traversa has passed away after taking a 50-foot groundfall.