Table of Contents

climbing notes

ANGEL FALLS

TORRE DEL BRUJO AND COCHAMO

MT. GROSVENOR

editors note

Connections

letters

Letters

Dope heads, war notes and Peter Croft for President.

faces

John Paul Gill

Mathematician by training, gymnast by choice, John Gill became a climber by chance, and revolutionized North American bouldering in the process. A short conversation with the man who brought chalk and dynamic movement to the vertical.

climbing life

The Climbing Life

Our readers write.

off belay

Off Belay

Coonyard mouths off. Again.

features content

There and Back Again

From her start as a teenage prodigy, Beth Rodden was always destined for big things. But her first big wall in Madagascar did little to prepare her for the adventures she'd find have a planet away.

Full Circle

Emerging from a mentor's shadow is never easy. But 2,500 feet up the north face of the Grandes Jorasses on a new route in winter, the challenge can take on new dimensions.

The Adventures of Hardy Grimper

Can it really be the end?

The Shadow of the Real

Alain Mesili's story was compelling: revolutionary, romantic, alpinist. But in the process of recording it, one journalist learned that the grandfather of Bolivian climbing left more than a little to the imagination.

Yamnuska

Loose rock, tricky route finding, finicky gear: Yam has been schooling the Calgary/Canmore set for generations. A photographic tribute, with words by Matt Pieterson.