Climbing Culture

Pulling into The Chief campground in Squamish for my first time, I had to double-check the sign to make sure…

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

Editor’s note: Longtime Climbing Zine contributor D Scott Borden wrote this piece for Volume 7, and sadly as the Zine…

The alarm blared repeatedly until I was jolted awake, not knowing what was a dream and what was real. I…

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

Note: this piece was published way back in Volume 2. That zine out of print, but you can pick one…

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…

Every day 500,000 outdoor enthusiasts* put on a pair of rock shoes for the first time. But with every new…

An excerpt from Luke Mehall’s piece, Hip-Hop and Climbing, which will appear in the next volume of The Climbing Zine:…