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Posted January 28, 2013
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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Posted January 28, 2013
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 of a ladder that was rigged like a diving board. It protruded about 20 feet over the edge of a rock ledge....
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Posted January 9, 2013
Find out what happened to each of the teams funded by our 2012 Mugs Stump Award.
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Posted December 6, 2012
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.
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Posted December 1, 2012
We congratulate winner Nick A. (whose submission we rescued from our spam folder) on his artfully written piece about finding clarity in the dark.
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Posted November 16, 2012
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.
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Posted November 2, 2012
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.
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Posted November 1, 2012
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.
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Posted October 4, 2012
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
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Posted September 26, 2012
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.
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