Luke Mehall, Publisher of The Climbing Zine will be embarking on a modest U.S. book tour this year, celebrating the release of the second edition of American Climber (complete with full color photos). Below is the list of the current schedule. More information about booking Mehall for a speaking event can be found below. His fifth…
The Creek 50 from Black Diamond was one of those pieces of gear I just had to check out. Since I climb in Indian Creek more than any other place, a gear review of this pack for The Zine seemed essential. So, for the fall season in Indian Creek I took the Creek 50 to…
Steve Byrne on Equinox, Joshua Tree – CA (1986) Photo and Essay: Brooke Sandahl Note: This is included in Sandahl’s photo essay for Volume 8, The Old School Issue. All photos by the author. Because I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, the amazing rock, weather, and landscapes of California were always a massive pull. Generally,…
The single most important choice you’ll make before any big (or little) climb is your partner. The right partner hopefully brings skills that you don’t possess, is someone who you love to be around, and has the same motivations as you. You trust them implicitly. Together, your partnership is more than the sum of the…
We were about thirty minutes into our adventure and five minutes away from finding the explosives. I looked back to my companion for this adventure—a BLM law enforcement officer, packing a gun and everything—and asked if he was doing alright. He was just fine, and minutes later we were checking out the explosives. “You moved…
As we’ve grown from a black and white stapled together zine to our full color book/magazine hybrid we currently have today, our goal has been to constantly refine The Climbing Zine. As Volume 11—Choss, Solos, and Reflection—is now released we think we’ve continually succeeded in that goal. (If you’re a Kindle, reader, there’s the “story…
Two years ago I pitched an idea about a film I really had nothing more than a spark of an idea for to Greg Cairns. I’d seen Cedar Wright and James Lucas’s “The Last Dirtbag” and felt compelled to offer something of my own to this “conversation” about dirtbags and whether or not any real…
To all our Climbing Zine friends and family: for the last year Greg Cairns and I have been working on our follow up to our film “Last Thoughts On The Dirtbag”. The new project will be called “Just A Climber, For Bear’s Ears”. by Luke Mehall, publisher, The Climbing Zine (photos by Greg Cairns) We want this…