Review: Arc’teryx Alpha Comp

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At the Climbing Zine we get lots of gear to test, sometimes too much to really wear something for longer than a few weeks. The Alpha Comp was different.  I kept coming back to it in my personal climbing, from high alpine routes to ski decents and local cragging. At the six month mark I realized…

Dawn of a New Age

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I knew this whole Dawn Wall climb was big when President Obama started tweeting about it. In case you’ve been living under a rock (or on one), Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgenson recently completed the world’s most difficult rock climb, the Dawn Wall on the 3,000-foot monolith, El Capitan in Yosemite. by Luke Mehall, publisher of…