Volume 22 of The Climbing Zine is off the printer, and into the mail. This story, Dancing With The Queen by Luke Mehall, will be read in two parts. This is part one. Check out our KEEP THE ZINE ALIVE campaign: www.climbingzine.com Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theclimbingzine Discount link for 15% off anything in our online…
***UPDATED on 6/7 WITH NEW NUMBERS**** This year has started off a bit rocky for our print publication. Our print and shipping costs are raising pretty dramatically. If this all happened five years ago, this post might be about The Climbing Zine up for sale to some major corporation. At this point though this thing…
The Factory Bouldering Gym in Orange, California, was by no means small, but it felt small that day. In addition to us thirty-one routesetters, there were about thirty or so people that were siphoning in for their late-afternoon sessions. The judges had just passed out our results and were preparing to announce the winners and…
Jimmie Dunn is a climbing legend. On El Capitan he succeeded with Cosmos where Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, and Jim Bridwell failed. Solo. He was also under threat of violence by some California climbers, who bullied his attempt. Jim Donini promised to protect him. He dropped his sleeping bag and slept in canvas bag. He…
Last weekend I learned of the demise of Climbing magazine in print, as everyone else did: on the internet. I was actually surprised. My personal prediction was that magazines that have more bullshit than valuable stories and art would be dead within five to ten years. But, the Outside mega corporation managed to expedite that…
Note: this piece was originally published in the Durango Telegraph newspaper. After a decade plus of writing for The Telegraph, Mehall is stepping away from writing his monthly column, to put his energy into other writing and creative projects. (Banner photo of the author by Greg Cairns.) When I was first asked by Missy Votel…
For this episode, we look back at a classic chapter from American Climber, Luke Mehall’s 2016 memoir, and the subject of Season 1 of the DSOM podcast. Check out our KEEP THE ZINE ALIVE campaign: www.climbingzine.com Support the podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theclimbingzine Discount link for 15% off anything in our online store: https://shop.climbingzine.com/discount/DIRTBAGPODCAST15 Photo of the North Six…
Editor’s note: Longtime Climbing Zine contributor D Scott Borden wrote this piece for Volume 7, and sadly as the Zine was going to press Rasta passed away. Our thoughts are with you and your family at this time Scott. Thanks for such an inspiring piece! -LM We have all seen some cray-cray stuff when it…