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This Rappel Mistake Can Be Fatal. Why Don't More Climbers Know About It?
4+ day, 8+ min ago (1265+ words) About our reporting: To investigate this fatal rappelling accident, reporter Natalie Berry spoke with IMFGA guide Calum Muskett, expert alpinist Colin Haley, and a close friend of the deceased. The results exposed a small yet fatal rappelling mistake that many…...
“I Am Literally a Doctor of Climbology”: Climber Turns PhD Into New Book
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (812+ words) “I think there’s a powerful need, often a subconscious one, in our current cultural moment for a more meaningful connection with the landscape,” life-long Moab-based climber and author Brian Laidlaw shared with Climbing. But his ultimate goal is to show…...
In 1976, a Plane Full of Weed Crashed Into Yosemite. Chaos Ensued.
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (1563+ words) Produced by British film production company Dash Pictures, the one-and-a-half hour doc sheds ample new light on the legend through in-depth interviews with park rangers, a widow of one of the pilots, a U.S. customs agent, the former head of Yosemite…...
These 6 Photos Capture the Joy of Climbing At Any Age, From 11 to 76
2+ week, 1+ day ago (505+ words) The rocks we climb may be incredibly old, but the people who climb them span a remarkable breadth of ages. We’ve seen two year olds bouldering and 80-year-olds spryly sending sport climbs. In the past year alone, we’ve written about…...
The Results Are In: Who Won the 2026 Climbing Summer Photo Contest?
2+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) Our call to action for the Crux category? Capture climbers contemplating, pulling through, and falling off the crux. Cedar Wright famously proclaimed the dirtbag an endangered species in a 2014 Climbing essay. A former Climbing editor countered that dirtbagging isn’t dead,…...
Desperation in Every Frame: How 9 Photographers See the Climber’s “Crux”
1+ week, 6+ day ago (435+ words) In a sense, it’s the core of our sport: the crux. It’s the hardest moves on a climb, the moment of truth, and the split-second where you launch from one timeline into the next. In our experience, the crux is…...
Climbers Ignored Warnings to Bail From Europe's Busiest Peak. Then the Mayor Made an Example Out Of Them.
2+ week, 5+ day ago (351+ words) About our reporting: To get a clearer picture of the mass helicopter rescue refusal in the French Alps, Senior Editor Anthony Walsh spoke with a French IFMGA guide and drew upon his own experience in the alpine to analyze the…...