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… Read More »Slideshow: Unclimbed Big Walls of Siberia
One desert icon remembers the life of another.
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… Read More »Alpine-Style Attempts on the South Face of Nuptse
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… Read More »Short Film: K6 West
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,… Read More »To Know
“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… Read More »Back(side) Pain
Peter Croft ambles along “the local epicenter of sideways mountaineering”–the High Sierra’s Palisades–in his own Peter Croft kind of way.
Joan Jensen searches through old boxes to uncover memories of her daring yet methodical soulmate, the late Don Jensen.
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… Read More »A Note from Our Palisades Profile Writer
“…As Marc neared the station, he asked if all climbing in the Rockies was this good. I had to apologize for spoiling him on his… Read More »Picking the Plum Line on the Storm Creek Headwall
There are only a handful of days in a climber’s life where weather, conditions and partner line up like the planets aligning to create a… Read More »Chasing the Ethereal on South Howser Tower
