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The Kailas Selma II is a great option in the lightweight helmet category, especially at its price point of $108.

But you don't get to laugh at anybody else unless you laugh at yourself.

A young climber finds she misses, of all things, the goodbyes.

Companies and individuals turn their minds and industrial-strength sewing machines—or just the one they've had since high school—to ways of helping in the pandemic.

Fritz Stammberger was a leading alpinist in the 1970s, unafraid of pushing boundaries regardless of the cost. Then he vanished mysteriously in the Himalaya, leading some to believe that he had run afoul, possibly even captured as a spy. Jeff Long, who was with Stammberger on his last expedition digs into the mystery.

Comfortable, technical all-arounder

Klaas Willems has cystic fibrosis. Doctors gave him 25 years. He's now 33. "Climbing is what got me this far," he writes.

The right helmet makes the difference between wearing and not, and the Petzl Meteor.

Everyone wears climbing pants

High feet can solve lots of problems for short climbers.

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