By all accounts, climbers do a good job of watching out for each other in the backcountry. Online, however, it’s a different story. What is it about the digital platform that makes us all quick to jab at each other?
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.
An expert explains why the destroyed artwork is an irreplaceable piece of Grand Canyon history.
Facing severe staffing shortages and equipment issues, the National Park Service has quietly dismantled its underwater recovery team at Lake Mead.
By all accounts, climbers do a good job of watching out for each other in the backcountry. Online, however, it’s a different story. What is it about the digital platform that makes us all quick to jab at each other?
The Russian Olympian holds the Women’s Speed World Record at 6.964 seconds.
The French lead climber and Olympic competitor became the third woman in the world to climb 9b (5.15b) in November 2020.
The famed wind tunnel coach/owner and FreeFly World Champion worked with Dutch designer Iris van Herpen on her latest couture line, “Earthrise."
The former comp climber went outside and had his eyes opened on real rock. Now he's on a mission to climb every hard boulder in Colorado.
The young lead climber took the international scene by storm with a triple gold in the European Continental Championships last year.
The new route on a Himalayan peak was the hardest of high-altitude veteran Marek Holeček's life, and became a climb of epic proportions.
Ondra, Nonaka, Pilz… a surprising number of Olympic climbers have come down with injuries with mere weeks until the Olympic Games.
The XStream Straw offers lightweight, packable filtration for backpacking, mountaineering, kayaking, and other outdoor endeavors.
Comfort, weight, storage capacity, sun protection… it all plays a role when choosing a baby carrier for hiking. We’ve broken down the key components so you know what to look for.
Finding the best baby hiking baby carrier when you’re heading into the outdoors with your little one is important, both for your baby’s safety and comfort and your own.
Here are ten other things you can spend your hard-earned $40 on.
Not only was her ascent bold and quick, it was also the first female solo of the route.
Ondra, Raboutou, Noguchi, Garnbret, and Megos are household names, but many Olympic climbers are folks you may not be familiar with...
Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO World Heritage Site centered around the eponymous mountain range in eastern Guatemala.
The all-star Japanese boulderer, 32, plans to make the Tokyo Olympics the final competition of her 16-year career.
This weekend’s competition saw a diverse group of climbers come to compete, spanning a wide range of paraclimbing categories.
Thinking ahead and preemptively evaluating possible split-second calls is a critical skill that all climbers should spend more time fostering.
Despite battling a 2020 pulley injury, the Polish climber is on top of the Speed game after a 7.38 first-place finish in Salt Lake City.