Climbing Culture

by Lucas Roman. This story is published in Volume 18. Banner photo by Hobo Greg Brad Gobright is pure of…

The Climbing Zine creates stories for all our readers; whether you’re able to pay to read them or not. Most…

  I don’t have climbing heroes, because, to paraphrase The Big Lebowski, what’s a hero, anyway? There are a few…

Milton had overgrowth knots, the greasy kind, matting his beard to his wooly secondhand pullover, which sagged without shape over…

Living on the road feels like traveling through space in a spaceship. You are in your car spaceship, flying in…

In the rich caravan of climbers whom we meet at the crags, people come and go. Some, like the flowing…

It’s the same story the crow told me It’s the only one he knows Like the morning sun you’ll come…

What once started as a stapled together black and white zine has turned into a worldwide leading climbing publication. And,…

The distinction between a “climber” and “someone who climbs” has always fascinated me; it’s a nuance I’ve observed throughout a…

The Climbing Zine is always accepting stories, photography, and art. Below are our loose guidelines. Words The Climbing Zine publishes…

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Fifteen meters up Rutabaga, a moderate 5.9 splitter at the base of Squamish, BC’s Stawamus Chief, stretches a traverse between…