When Gear Attacks
The author suffers a failed boot test and pays a price.
Duane Raleigh
The Fish Cheat and the Prince of Climbing
Amid the rot of professional sports, there's a Prince beyond reproach.
Enrollment is Now Open for the 2020 John Long Writing Symposium!
The 2020 John Long Writing Symposium, hosted by Rock and Ice and sponsored by Adidas in Carbondale, Colorado, will run from July 6-11. Reserve your spot today! Email Rock and Ice editor Francis Sanzaro fsanzaro@bigstonepub.com
Photographic Memories
Rock and Ice is proud to present our 2018 Photo Annual. Here Duane Raleigh, publisher and editor in chief of Rock and Ice, introduces the issue---the first of it's kind in the climbing world---and the ability of photography to capture not just images, but stories.
Jim Bridwell, Founder of YOSAR and Big-Wall Godfather, Dead at 73
On February 16, Jim “The Bird” Bridwell, captain of numerous El Cap voyages of physical and psychological expansion, inventor, writer, thinker and fashion setter died of complications from hepatitis C. He was 73.
TNB: My First Epic
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.