Future First Ascents: The Faces of the Mugs Stump Award
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 alpinism.
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Mugs Stump-Funded Expeditions: 2012 In Review
Find out what happened to each of the teams funded by our 2012 Mugs Stump Award.
2012 Bozeman Ice Festival Livestream
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 the Ice Fest! Find the live footage here.
Dirtbaggery, Vol. 3: Surviving Thanksgiving Small Talk
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 unorthodox monikers such as Trout Man, Chongo, Coach or Alf, they have no trouble answering their names. The job category, that one’s often tougher. If you’re like me, you put on a sheepish grin and give a halfway-there explanation, and struggle until failure to explain what you’re doing with yourself and why.
Bozeman Ice Fest Writing Contest
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 sniff out some vertical ice? Nostalgic for your first time swinging a tool? Eager to enjoy some meditation time on your front points? Tell us about it.
Dirtbaggery, Vol. 2: Saving Time, Wasting Time and Explaining Climbing on the Internet
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 knew nothing about….In the interest of helping others avoid such hours fraught with peril, I’m going to attempt to answer nearly every Internet climbing conundrum in the span of a single Q and A session.
Ueber Steigeisentechnik- Crampon Manufacturing in 1908
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 already reached the limits of what is possible. — Oscar Eckenstein, 1908
Joe Iurato’s Little Climbers
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. It picked me up. In a sense I found myself falling out of climbing and I couldn’t figure out why. Maybe it was because of everything that had gone on.
Dirtbaggery, Vol. 1: Just Seam Grip It
Just Seam Grip It! – The art, and adhesive, of gear improvement.
