![With Yosemite Falls rumbling to his left, Jon Cardwell face climbs into the final 5.12 splitter crack on Pitch 13 of the Misty Wall (5.13, 1,700') during a free ascent with Sasha DiGiulian on May 27. Cardwell had previously freed the individual pitches with Marcus Garcia last autumn, but the recent ascent is the first time the route has been free climbed in a continuous push, which took about 14.5 hours. [Photo] Marcus Garcia](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/yosemite-legacy-project-1-930x620.jpg)
The Legacy Restoration Project is an emerging program to clean up forgotten routes as a way to remind climbers of the potential that still lies… Read More »Legacy Restoration Project begets another high-end route: Yosemite’s Misty Wall (5.13)
![The author as a girl on top of Mt. Azimiyeh, a peak she climbed many times with her dad. [Photo] Shirin Shabestari collection](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tea-song-1-930x620.jpeg)
In this Climbing Life story from Alpinist 58, mountaineer Shirin Shabestari writes about her childhood in Iran, where her dad introduced her to snowy peaks… Read More »Tea Song
![The Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, will host the Outdoor Retailer at least one more time this July. [Photo] hakkun, Wikimedia](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/patagonia-or-1-930x620.jpg)
Emerald Expositions–the company that owns Outdoor Retailer–announced May 24 that it has acquired the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show and that the winter OR… Read More »Outdoor Retailer winter trade show is merging with SIA Snow Show in Denver
![The east face of the Ship's Prow with MantraMandala (VI A3+, 450m) marked in red. [Photo] Marek Raganowicz](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/marek-ships-prow-1-930x620.jpg)
Though he intended to do some solo climbing, Marek Raganowicz hadn’t planned on spending the entire six weeks alone among the polar bears on Baffin… Read More »Marek Raganowicz solos two new routes on the Ship’s Prow in Baffin Island
![Max Barlerin and Quinn Brett celebrate on top of the Leaning Wall in Zion after Brett's free ascent of Spaceshot (IV 5.13a) on May 2. [Photo] Max Barlerin](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/brett-space-shot-1-930x620.jpg)
Quinn Brett made what is likely the first female free ascent of Spaceshot (IV 5.13a, 9 pitches) in Zion National Park, Utah, on May 1-2,… Read More »Quinn Brett makes probable first female free ascent of Spaceshot (5.13a) in Zion
![Leslie Hsu Oh is pictured here with her family at the cliffs of red Lockatong argillite and Brunswick shale along the Tohickon Creek, Pennsylvania. [Photo] Joe Forte](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/saying-something-alp58-1-930x620.jpg)
In this Climbing Life story from Alpinist 58, Leslie Hsu Oh takes her kids climbing and observes them learning lessons that took her a lifetime… Read More »K’e yil yal tx’i: Saying Something
![After a long rightward traverse on the second ice band, climbing some moderate ice to join the Bjoernberg-Ireland route. [Photo] Colin Haley](https://alpinist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/haley-hunter-north-buttress-solo-1-930x620.jpg)
Colin Haley completed one of his longstanding projects on May 12 with the first solo ascent of the North Buttress of Begguya (Mt. Hunter) which… Read More »Colin Haley solos North Buttress of Begguya (Mt. Hunter) round-trip in 17 hours
