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Maurice Herzog Dies at Age 93
Maurice Herzog passed away at the age of 93 on December 13, leaving behind a legendary account of a bold first ascent an 8,000 meter peak—the first of its kind.
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Diary of Yosemite’s Climber Stewards: On Patrol
Up to 3,000-foot vertical walls, 5,000 routes, 1,200 square miles, 150-180 days of climbing per year and two (count them) two full-time Yosemite climbing rangers. In this installment of the Diary of Yosemite’s Climber Stewards, Climbing Ranger Ben Doyle gets paid to climb El Cap in a day.
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Voluntary Wild Country Helium Carabiner Recall
Wild Country issued a voluntary recall of the Helium carabiner on December 10, 2012. Find details in the following press release.
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Wired: Climb Disconnected
What happens to the solitary creativity of our pursuit as more climbers perform for a mass audience? Mountaineering historian Andy Selters investigates what may become one of the defining questions of our era.
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2012 Bozeman Ice Festival Livestream
You don’t have to be in Bozeman to see the ice tower competition and talks by Hayden and Michael Kennedy, Doug Chabot and others at the Ice Fest! Find the live footage here.
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Dirtbaggery, Vol. 3: Surviving Thanksgiving Small Talk
When we meet people for the first time, we ask their name, and we ask them their job. And although I know climbers who’ve adopted unorthodox monikers such as Trout Man, Chongo, Coach or Alf, they have no trouble answering their names. The job category, that one’s often tougher. If you’re like me, you put…
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Wild Country Ropeman 3: Recall and Alpinist Tester Observations
After spending several months playing with Wild County’s new Ropeman 3, I began to wonder if I was using it incorrectly. Should it really be this hard?, I wondered. When Alpinist was contacted recently to help spread the word of the recall, I felt relieved that it wasn’t just me.
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Asolo Cholatse TH: A Well-Made Boot From Boot Country
Geography is a big determinant of destiny. So it’s only logical that Italy, a mountainous and boot-shaped country, would be home to many of the companies producing high-end footwear for our alpine endeavors. The nation with a centuries-old heritage of crafting fashionable and functional shoes is home to brands including La Sportiva, Scarpa, Kayland and…
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Bozeman Ice Fest Writing Contest
Does the sound of crunching leaves underfoot and a biting frost on your morning run have you itchin’ to break out the pointy hardware and sniff out some vertical ice? Nostalgic for your first time swinging a tool? Eager to enjoy some meditation time on your front points? Tell us about it.
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Dirtbaggery, Vol. 2: Saving Time, Wasting Time and Explaining Climbing on the Internet
As a beginning climber, I would read Internet forums and climbing blogs for hours. I justified these pupil-glazing sessions as “research” into a world I knew nothing about….In the interest of helping others avoid such hours fraught with peril, I’m going to attempt to answer nearly every Internet climbing conundrum in the span of a…
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Cassin Ridge Climb
In July 2012, Tom Livingstone and Tom Ripley made a two day ascent of the Cassin Ridge on the South Face of Denali.
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Ueber Steigeisentechnik- Crampon Manufacturing in 1908
What the ice climbers of the future will be able to climb, I know not. But I find it hard to believe that we have already reached the limits of what is possible. — Oscar Eckenstein, 1908
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Cornuau-Davaille Route, Les Droites
Marion Poitevin and Philippe Batoux climb the Cornuau-Davaille route on the north face of Les Droites.
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