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The Climbing Zine is a creative collective fueled by passion, dirt, and rocks.
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Sep 10, 19 •
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We’ve never done this, and perhaps it would be a failure (anything can be) but I’m hoping to rally a big subscription push for The Climbing Zine. Our goal is to add 100 new subscribers in the next month! The Zine, as we affectionately call it, is...
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Sep 9, 19 •
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“I’m not saying I’m going to rule the world, or I’m going to change the world, but I guarantee you that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” —Tupac Shakur There was an energy to that crowbar in my hand. I was walking alone, down...
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Sep 8, 19 •
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“Yucca sandals,” I say to myself. “How’d they do this move in yucca sandals?” The sheer sandstone wall below me plunges five hundred feet to the canyon bottom. To my right, I see a Moki step pecked in the rock eight or nine hundred years before. But...
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Sep 4, 19 •
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One of the greatest joys I have as a publisher is discovering an amazing climbing project, and then being able to share that with our audience. This one is from our friends at Melanin Base Camp is a film called Titan Project about Canadian...
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Sep 4, 19 •
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This story starts and ends with a chicken. On a bright morning in a high valley of the Hindu Kush, the doomed bird lay pinned atop a low stone wall that had been built by local goat herders. One sharp birdie eye looked up into the cloudless sky, the heavens a...
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Aug 30, 19 •
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by Joanna Spindler, published in Volume 16, now available. Banner art by Rhiannon Williams We didn’t have much time Because an evening wind was rising. We didn’t have much time and what was left began to wisp away, suspended in the particles of ice. We...
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Aug 29, 19 •
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From Townie Books in Crested Butte, Luke Mehall and friends tell stories from his books American Climber and The Desert, and a few out of the box tales as well. Mehall is the author of five dirtbag climbing books, and he’s the publisher of The Climbing...
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Aug 27, 19 •
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November is closing in fast, and on this turn around the fireball, we reach a strange and interesting milestone in American rock climbing. Forty years ago, Earl Wiggins shouldered a rack of hexes and set out on the FA of a smooth and parallel-sided crack...
