How climate-friendly is rock climbing? How can we minimize our carbon footprint on and off the wall?
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How climate-friendly is rock climbing? How can we minimize our carbon footprint on and off the wall?
Depending on where you live (or how far you’re willing to drive), you may have the unique opportunity to experience this year’s eclipse out at the crag.
“Today’s climbers don’t realize how hard we had it back then,” read a statement from an anonymous group of former Yosemite climbers.
After making the first repeat of Shawn Raboutou’s ‘Megatron,’ American upstart D.B. Vernon is recommending a double downgrade to V15.
With the acquisition of the Citadel, one of the oldest climbing access projects in the southeast, another killer Bama crag is open for business.
The 55-year-old Japanese icon recently completed a crack project he’s eyed for the last 40 years. In an interview with Climbing, he talks about why “adventure is much more important than grades."
In 1979, Steve Roper and Allen Steck released 'Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.' This modern take is for the weekend warrior.
The 34-year-old American gave us the lowdown on his “savage” new boulder, Adrenaline (V16), his first hard FA since Return of the Sleepwalker (V17)
Ondra has now climbed the hardest grade in every climbing discipline except bouldering (he has yet to do a V17).
Not every hard project has to be tackled from a tent or campervan. These destinations mix remote climbing with luxury.
Danny Gerhart, 24, passed away on August 5 after his rope cut during a fall at Seneca Rocks.
Spencer Dawes, 25, died on September 17 while rappelling the Methow Inspiration Route (5.9) on Goat Wall in Okanogan, Washington.
Andrew Munds, 29, died on September 2 at Officer’s Gulch in Frisco while rope soloing.
Russian alpinist Nadya Oleneva, 38, died after a fall on Nepal’s Dhaulagiri I (8,167m/26,795ft) on October 14.
Polish alpinist Kacper Tekieli died on May 17, after being hit by an avalanche while descending from a solo on Jungfrau (13,642ft) in the Bernese Alps.
Irish mountaineer and endurance athlete Noel Hanna, 56, died April 17 after summiting Annapurna (26,545ft).
Scottish climbing legend Jimmy Marshall passed away on March 2, aged 94. Marshall, “The King of the Ben,” was among the UK’s leading climbers in the 1950s and 60s.