We already introduced their objectives. Now meet the nine teams chasing those summits with all of Mug Stump’s boldness and commitment to light and clean… Read More »Future First Ascents: The Faces of the Mugs Stump Award
Find out what happened to each of the teams funded by our 2012 Mugs Stump Award.
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… Read More »2012 Bozeman Ice Festival Livestream
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… Read More »Dirtbaggery, Vol. 3: Surviving Thanksgiving Small Talk
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… Read More »Bozeman Ice Fest Writing Contest
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… Read More »Dirtbaggery, Vol. 2: Saving Time, Wasting Time and Explaining Climbing on the Internet
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… Read More »Ueber Steigeisentechnik- Crampon Manufacturing in 1908
I’m trying to think of the best way to explain it. I got laid off in 2008 and fell back on my art pretty hard.… Read More »Joe Iurato’s Little Climbers
Just Seam Grip It! – The art, and adhesive, of gear improvement.
The mecca of Canadian granite, the Stawamus Chief in Squamish, British Columbia may soon see a new development. The Sea to Sky Gondola Corporation is… Read More »Squamish Gondola Project Receives Initial Approval
First my aim was to reach people who do not know much about mountaineering. Especially those people who would probably never read a thick book… Read More »The Ice Warriors
