“Oh you feel and you taste it and you want to go higher. So what do you do? And so you peak into the mountain where your desire goes. Spilt blood on this place it only echoes true all through the days. And so you peak into the mountain where your desire goes.” The Mountain…
“Life can be rugged and cold, or smooth and exciting. The climb these two have just performed today symbolizes life and all of its trials and excitements,” read our officiant. “…All love is enclosed in our love: / all thirst ends in our embrace,” I read, starting an excerpt from “Ode and Burgeonings” by Pablo…
In the mail that day came The Climbing Zine. It was addressed to Alyssa. I knew she wouldn’t mind me opening it, but I shot her a text asking her permission anyway. It was during the first wave of COVID in Boston and throughout the hard-hit East Coast. This letter is published in the new…
It’s 1981, and I’m 22 years old, about to graduate from college, trying to sort out what happens next. And there’s this guy I really like. He’s good looking, smart, funny, and a rock climber. I confess, I had this thing for rock climbers, especially those with large biceps. by Barbara Noseworthy, published in Volume…
Luke Mehall explores Indian Creek, Utah for new routes; the land now part of Bears Ears National Monument. In the midst of the search he finds his passion expanding exponentially. Subscribe/ get a copy of The Zine here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Read more stories/watch videos/explore: http://www.climbingzine.com Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16583450
I started seeing it sometime last year, and it got a small chuckle out of me then: #bitchesonpitches. But the more I thought about it, the more I wondered: in a world full of bad bitches and rich bitches and boss bitches and basic ones too, what does that word even mean anymore? by Kathy…
When I heard that Jim Bridwell had died, my first thought was, I bet even he didn’t think he’d live this long. Between pushing the boundaries of rock climbing and the psychedelic experience, the cigarettes and the wine, the trips to the big mountains, who would have guessed he’d make it to social security? by…
Remembering our friend Adam Lawton. Finally getting a job in Durango. Getting The Zine going, and eventually having success on the Salathe Wall on El Capitan in Yosemite. Subscribe/ get a copy of The Zine here: https://shop.climbingzine.com/ Read more stories/watch videos/explore: http://www.climbingzine.com Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16583450