“We have a rule, climbing in the mountains-you just don’t fall,” says veteran alpinist Mark Richey, “…but you do, sometimes.” Before leaving for the Eastern… Read More »‘The Old Breed’: A Special Feature from the Film
Earlier this month, twenty-year-old Squamish local Marc-Andre Leclerc solo-climbed Squamish’s Chief three times in 17 hours: the historic Grand Wall route, topping out on the… Read More »Speed Soloing the Chief: An Interview with Marc-Andre Leclerc
For decades, the future legality of fixed anchor use in Wilderness areas remained uncertain. Because land management agencies had no national guidance to assist local… Read More »What the New NPS Wilderness Climbing Policy Means for Climbers and Bolting
Over seven days, Jens Holsten and Chad Kellogg made their way across the toothy ridgeline of the Northern and Southern Pickets in the Cascade Mountains.… Read More »Desperate Country: Seven Days on the Fence
Modern Sherpa climbers have achieved some respect within the commercial guiding community–their status the result of evolving power structures through decades of Himalayan mountaineering. But… Read More »2013 Everest Report: A Curse, a Fight and the Aftermath
The Golden Age of climbing in Yosemite may have come and gone, but last week, Lucho Rivera and Cedar Wright proved there are still puzzles… Read More »Free Climbing Liberty Cap: A Q&A with Cedar Wright
Already through the three cruxes of the climb and just 600 feet from the top of El Capitan, Mason Robison did what we’ve all done… Read More »Death on Yosemite’s Muir Wall
In a collaborative effort to profile the late Bill Denz for our spring issue, Peter Haan and Paul Maxim enlisted David “Zappa” Austin to record… Read More »Mesca-Dawn: A Remembrance of Bill Denz
The name says it all. Everyone who is a climber has heard his name. Every climber has seen his name plastered all over the guidebooks… Read More »Obituary: Layton Kor (1938-2013)
One year ago I sat idly and watched as my friends enjoyed a beautiful, warm winter day of cragging at the New River Gorge in… Read More »In Gold Blood
Each year, the Everest situation comes under greater scrutiny, with new stories of crowds and deaths and with new allegations of climbers lacking compassion for… Read More »50 Years on Everest
We were on the North Face of the Eiger. Clint Eastwood was dangling free over an ugly overhang with his rope attached to the end… Read More »Alpinist 41: The Cover (Back)story
