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Climbing Culture

Hayden by Andrew Bisharat

Climbing CultureBy LukeApril 20, 2018Leave a comment

Hayden, I am just so sad that you’re gone. The news struck me like a train. It literally knocked me…

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Kansas City Urban Summits, a buildering adventure by Dakota Walz

Climbing CultureBy LukeMay 26, 2017Leave a comment

I could see him clearly from directly across the alleyway. A light was on and a white balding office worker…

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Tom Randall: Wide Boy, Small Ego, Big Heart by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeMay 9, 2017Leave a comment

Like most desert rats, I first heard of Tom Randall during his and Pete Whittaker’s infamous off-width tour of the…

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Go To The Desert (a poem) by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeMay 3, 2017Leave a comment

Go to the desert Or whatever place Is The Desert To You by Luke Mehall, photo by: Greg Cairns For…

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Explaining a Memorial Toilet

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 30, 20172 Comments

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

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Hear Mehall on The Enormocast

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 27, 2017Leave a comment

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

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Walmart Parking Lot (a poem) by Georgie Abel

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 16, 2017Leave a comment

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

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The Pain (of the desert) by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 6, 2017Leave a comment

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

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The Secret Spot by Joy Martin

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 1, 2017Leave a comment

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

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Awake On El Cap by Tristan Greszko

Climbing CultureBy LukeFebruary 21, 20172 Comments

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

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My Golden Era (a poem) by Elliot Natz

Climbing CultureBy LukeMay 29, 2016Leave a comment

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

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Lindsey Schauer: The Quintessential Climbing Mom

Dirtbagging, LocationsBy LukeSeptember 30, 2014Leave a comment

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

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Hippies, Dirtbags, and A Gift From Grandma

DirtbaggingBy LukeJuly 16, 2014Leave a comment

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

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Seth Adams on Negotiating Rest Days and Relationship Building

DirtbaggingBy LukeJune 3, 2014Leave a comment

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

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Climbing Haikus

Climbing CultureBy LukeMarch 31, 2014Leave a comment

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

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