Video: Fitz Traverse
Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold travel to Patagonia to find the limit of their capabilities, and “do the kind of stuff [they] see in Alpinist
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Video: Aid Turns Free on Mt. Hooker
Inspired during a trip to Wyoming’s Wind River Range the previous season, David Allfrey, Nik Berry and Mason Earle returned to the Winds this August
Slideshow: Unclimbed Big Walls of Siberia
Inspired by a single photo, Australians Chris Fitzgerald and Chris Warner visit unclimbed big walls in remote northeastern Russia. Pulling out moss clumps and excavating
Remembering Eric Bjornstad, Desert Rat of the Old School
One desert icon remembers the life of another.
Alpine-Style Attempts on the South Face of Nuptse
Two Canadian alpinists dodge large avalanches on the storied South Face of Nuptse. None of their several attempts extends beyond half height on the massive
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Short Film: K6 West
Raphael Slawinski, Ian Welsted and Jesse Huey travel to Pakistan to climb K6 West. At the moment of their departure down the KKH, they learn
To Know
In the final installment of our series of essays about climbing in the High Sierra’s Palisades group, Steve Porcella quests for the “remote, barren, trailless,
Back(side) Pain
“Sixty-five Sierra routes that first summer; about a dozen the next, a fifth of them first ascents. Brutal-as-hell approaches with seventy-pound packs, decrepit knees and
More than a Mountain
Peter Croft ambles along “the local epicenter of sideways mountaineering”–the High Sierra’s Palisades–in his own Peter Croft kind of way.
The Nature of Memory
Joan Jensen searches through old boxes to uncover memories of her daring yet methodical soulmate, the late Don Jensen.
A Note from Our Palisades Profile Writer
I thought I knew the Palisades, my home range. That is until I was deep in the process of writing a Mountain Profile about them