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From Midas’s Touch to A Green Thumb: Remembering Doug Tompkins by Joy Martin

Climbing CultureBy LukeOctober 2, 2023Leave a comment

Doug Tompkins opens the door to a South American summer evening. At seventy-one—stooped and shuffling, a button-down shirt tucked into…

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Dancing With The Queen (excerpt from Volume 22) by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 27, 2023Leave a comment

In my body, I’m a climber; in my imagination, I’m a rapper. The poets of my generation are MCs—embodiments of…

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Dirtbag Paradise by Amber Roepke (a poem)

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 26, 2023Leave a comment

It’s your mom’s minivan pimped out And only seats two Because if it wasn’t hard enough to live in a…

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The Long Run, a profile of Alan Carne by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 25, 20231 Comment

“There were no girls when I started climbing [in England],” Alan said, in a tone more serious than joking. I’d…

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Climbing Through The Fog by Colleen Tirtirian

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 21, 2023Leave a comment

The fog rolled in surreptitiously, encroaching every visible surface. It wasn’t just there one day when I woke up, the…

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Keep The Zine Alive in 2023

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 21, 2023Leave a comment

Last year around this time I wrote a short post called “Keep The Zine Alive”. We had lost a couple…

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Escape From The Hand Brain by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 21, 2023Leave a comment

Note: this piece is published in Volume 17, and it is an excerpt from his book, The Desert. Both are…

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A Journey Through Time by Adam Ferro

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 20, 2023Leave a comment

The expenditure of energy on a trip of this sort is massive and one only has so much of this…

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In The Company of Friends by Ed Webster

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 17, 2023Leave a comment

“If this climb doesn’t blow you away, nothing will,” James ventured as he hit the brakes. “I still can’t believe…

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Meltdown by Beth Rodden

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 16, 2023Leave a comment

Note from the editor of the Valley of Giants book, Lauren DeLaunay Miller: A book about the women of Yosemite…

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A Venture Backward, Inward, and Upward by Rhiannon Williams

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 14, 2023Leave a comment

In Memory of Towyn Williams (1926 – 2016) I associate much of my childhood with a little white farmhouse in…

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Going It Alone by Vic Zeilman

DirtbaggingBy LukeSeptember 10, 2023Leave a comment

At some point in my early to midtwenties, I came to the conclusion that life is not about rock climbing.…

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A Knot Like Infinity by North Bennett

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 8, 2023Leave a comment

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

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Staying Hungry on the Salathe by Brittany Goris (Full Story)

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 6, 2023Leave a comment

“Keep dreamin’, stay hungry, and remember that there is no finish line.”    This quote by Todd Skinner in the…

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Are We Born to Climb? by D Scott Borden

Climbing CultureBy LukeSeptember 5, 20233 Comments

Is climbing as innate as sharing, copulating, greed, or even walking? Many evolutionary biologists would offer that the essence of…

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