At The North Face Climbing Festival in London, I spoke with Stefano Ghisolfi, Fay Manners, Nathaniel Coleman, and others about their upcoming projects.
The author learns to trust the wisdom of his elders on a wildly jinxed motorcycle-mountaineering trip to Ecuador.
On a motorcycle trip to Italy, we learn it’s not when you arrive, but how, and it’s not what you bring, it’s how you pack it. Sponsored for EVERGOODS.
At The North Face Climbing Festival in London, I spoke with Stefano Ghisolfi, Fay Manners, Nathaniel Coleman, and others about their upcoming projects.
To Grammy-nominated violinist and activist Vijay Gupta, classical music was made for the streets.
Forget the 5.14 sufferfests. We asked elite athletes like Alex Honnold, Sasha DiGiulian, and Alex Megos to share the moderate lines they love.
Siebe Vanhee, Séan Villanueva O’Driscoll, and Symon Welfringer completed a first ascent two decades in the making. Now, Vanhee reveals the scariest moments and whether the 5,000-foot route was worth the risk.
On May 9, Konstantin Smirnov’s mountaineering guide abandoned him at 25,900 feet on the fifth-highest mountain on Earth. He's now taking the guide company to court.
Two Wyoming campers did everything right—keeping food out of their tents and using deterrents—but a black bear refused to back down.
Over intense opposition from the Havasupai Tribal Council, state officials quietly approved a request from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine to adjust acceptable levels of toxic chemicals in the mine’s monitoring well.
The Indian government has definitively identified the mountain's most famous dead body. Now comes the dangerous, expensive reality of hacking him out of the ice.
All in Climbing
At The North Face Climbing Festival in London, I spoke with Stefano Ghisolfi, Fay Manners, Nathaniel Coleman, and others about their upcoming projects.
Forget the 5.14 sufferfests. We asked elite athletes like Alex Honnold, Sasha DiGiulian, and Alex Megos to share the moderate lines they love.
Siebe Vanhee, Séan Villanueva O’Driscoll, and Symon Welfringer completed a first ascent two decades in the making. Now, Vanhee reveals the scariest moments and whether the 5,000-foot route was worth the risk.
On May 9, Konstantin Smirnov’s mountaineering guide abandoned him at 25,900 feet on the fifth-highest mountain on Earth. He's now taking the guide company to court.
A man died in a Luxembourg climbing gym two weeks ago, after clipping his auto belay line incorrectly. Do auto belays breed complacency?
From Alabama to Wyoming, these walls, buttresses, and bouldering sectors comprise the best spots to climb across the country.
“You could tell she has a lot more to give," said filmmaker Jon Glassberg, "and she wants to prove that.”
The complete guide to climbing amid mosquitoes, including the worst areas in the U.S., whether DEET could destroy your gear, and more ways climbers can protect themselves.
To establish 130 BPM, the 28-year-old stepped away from the “over-engineered” nature of modern bouldering and listened to her gut.
Muscle memory, proprioception, and more tools that Jesse Dufton used to stick the dynos on a 5.12- trad route.
After a sideways fall on 'Rutabaga' (5.11a), Stanhope suffered a severe head injury. His partner, Marina Leon, recounts the accident and the rescue that followed.
After a fatal fall at Emerald Bay's 90 Foot Wall, friends and family recalled Noah Sebastian Ortega Wiley’s relentless drive and deep bond with climbing.
Why are the world’s best climbers building their own testpieces instead of confirming each other's? We asked them.
When a climber died on the Greek island last week, witnesses were quick to blame the haphazard response from a local volunteer rescue team. The real culprit? Hundreds of corroded bolts.
For an extra $12,000, the Summit+ permit allows wealthy climbers to skip the bottlenecks, while sticking economy-class mountaineers in designated waiting zones.
Erwan Legrand, 17, made the first ascent of a legendary French sport project, ‘Le Bombé Bleu,’ proposing 5.15b. The key to his success? Leaving his shoes on the ground.
Jarred Jackman fractured three vertebrae in a fall after his rope mysteriously unclipped from his protection.
New insights from the courtroom and European alpinists shed light on how the Grossglockner case splits responsibility among a group of climbers.
The infamous Grossglockner case went to trial on February 19, and the defendant was found guilty.
How a local pioneer went from bedridden to freeing the scariest line in West Virginia's Coopers Rock State Forest—using a very unusual system.