Russia’s World Cup Ice Climbing Scene is as Hardcore as it Gets
How the USA Ice Climbing Team found purpose in the frozen damp of a Russian winter.
How the USA Ice Climbing Team found purpose in the frozen damp of a Russian winter.
Well I'm banking that as a momentous day. The first day's mountaineering work of 2021 and the first Expedition Guide 'open' course since March 2020. The layout of the Siabod Cafe might have been a little...
Seattle’s Vertical World climbing gym is fighting a $1,000,000 lawsuit brought by an injured gym member, who allegedly fell off an auto-belay route after failing to fully clip in.
Thinking of climbing on or near Native American rock art? Just don’t… On Tuesday evening, the Access Fund hosted the webinar Climbing on Sacred Land to discuss the intersection of Native American rock (petroglyphs and pictographs) with rock climbing.
Huw and I have been running an Advanced Scrambling Course today. This is the first open course (ie not private guiding) that we have run since March last year and so it felt like a real milestone. It was absolutely ace too!
Stop suffering with lightweight backpacking gear at the crag. Go heavy when you car camp—literally bring the kitchen sink—and watch your attitude, if not your climbing, soar.
Tom Randall writes: If we could sum up three things that people really must pay attention to, in their power-endurance training (also includes a lot of endurance stuff as well!), then these three tips are right at the top.
“You Americans always say, ‘You’ve got this,’ and, ‘C’mon,’ but why?” the Slovenian climber Marko Prezelj said to me and a few other Boulder climbers out cragging on a cold day at the West Ridge in Eldorado Canyon, Colorado, a decade-plus ago now, when he was out in Colorado for a visit.
Competitions, even the ones that go horribly, can teach you more about climbing than outdoor projects ever could.
On the morning of April 11, Josh Ourada went out for a free solo of Nutcracker, a classic 500-foot 5.8 on the Manure Pile Buttress, Yosemite, a climb he had previously done ropeless without issue. He sailed up the first three pitches, but halfway up pitch four, disaster struck.
The words we attach to climbs have power—and every once in a while, are unworthy.
Cams and nuts can hold up against very high fall forces if placed correctly - but placing them correctly involves more than just shoving them in the first cracks you see.
The Classic Alpine Faces As Seen Through The Eyes and Pencil of a Climbing Artist and Guide