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Posted September 29, 2014
Patrick Horne remembers his friend Brian Delaney, a New England climber who transformed his ambling gait into graceful movement whenever he touched rock.
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Posted September 24, 2014
A regular illustrator for our print magazine, Jamie Givens advises how to begin the monumental task of following your dreams. "Start with what you love," he says. "Most people don't realize that the knowledge they have about something that they are passionate about, the years spent memorizing information, physical skills developed, expertise, is all a marketable commodity."
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Posted September 17, 2014
Blake Herrington adds his own saga to the story of Picket Range climbing.
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Posted September 15, 2014
Fred Degoulet and Benjamin Guigonnet lead the charge into a promising winter season in the Mont Blanc massif, and come back with photos.
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Posted September 11, 2014
Jed Williamson is retiring after four decades as the editor of Accidents in North American Mountaineering. Having dedicated some 5,000 hours to the journal, he may know more about North America's climbing accidents than anyone else on the continent.
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Posted September 8, 2014
Mugs Stump Award recipient Kyle Dempster returns from Pakistan, not with a fresh routeline to draw up The Shining Wall of Gasherbrum IV (7925m), but with a story about choosing a friend over a summit.
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Posted August 27, 2014
Chris Van Leuven calls up a few friends of his mentor Brian McCray to share memories and create an outline of the late climber's character and legacy.
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Posted August 22, 2014
Over the last decade behind his lens, Jon Griffith has focused on mountain sports photography: alpine, rock and ice climbing, backcountry skiing, BASE jumping, paragliding and speed riding. But beyond the dusky alpenglow and crisp ridgelines, the bulk of Griffith's oeuvre is extraordinary in another important and more unusual way: it's real.
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Posted August 12, 2014
Unusual conditions in the Central Alaska Range one season leaves the classic Ham and Eggs (V 5.8 AI4) slathered in snice and yielding only to a collective, siege-style effort by the growing community of climbers at its base.
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Posted August 8, 2014
High-desert climbing pioneer Jimmie Dunn recounts the quirky Cobra's first ascent on a sizzling April day in 1991 when "even the ants [were] lying low" in Utah's Fisher Towers. He bids farewell to the now-collapsed formation that was enjoyed by so many fellow desert rats over the years.
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