Climbing Culture

A memorial toilet is a hard thing to explain. But that’s exactly what my friends were constructing last weekend, a…

Check out Climbing Zine publisher, Luke Mehall on the Enormocast with Chris Kalous. Please throw the Enormocast a buck or…

by Georgie Abel (photo by Dylan Hightower) I was this close To forgetting what it feels like To sleep in…

The other day, on the Internet, I read about a climber whose fingertip broke off in a crack when he…

If these rocks could talk, they’d tell a hell of a story: one of nature and development, of perseverance and…

Awake. Alone. It’s 3 am. Only two more hours to sleep, the clock is ticking. The world is silent. Maybe…

We rounded the bend and there were half a dozen people lining up at the base of the route. Rock…

by Elliot Natz Note: This piece is published in The Climbing Zine, Volume 10 photo of towers in Canyonlands National…

In the Last Pitch section of the new Climbing Zine, there’s a great, sentimental piece, written by Mallory Logan. Titled…

When I was in my later years of being a teenager I was convinced that I was born too late.…

I’d been reading a book on relationships. It suggests not to spring things on your partner; that if you have…

Last month The Climbing Zine hosted “Climbers’ Beer Night” at Carver Brewing Company in Durango, Colorado and had a Haiku…

Publisher of The Climbing Zine, Luke Mehall, follows his dreams, no matter how absurd. Recently the Dirtbag Diaries podcast asked…

“The best climber is the one having the most fun.” Alex Lowe This is a new column for The Climbing…

Last month I wrote an article on bromance, which as it turns out, has been my most popular article I’ve…