Climbing Culture

Standing there, gaping at this monstrous and inhuman spectacle of rock and cloud and sky and space, I feel a…

“There’s someone on that off-width you wanted to do.” I pause—midstride—and look up to see someone hanging out halfway…

The teenage Federale slings his machine gun over his shoulder and bends toward my bag. Cocaine? he asks. Marijuana? I…

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

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

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

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

Five hundred words… A blip, a blurb, Of every send and every slip And every crimp and every clip That…

My dear friend Gregory Pettys insisted I check out Substack, and though I’ve only been dabbling for a week, I…

Our new Potrero State of Mind design is now available in stickers and shirts. Designed by Mallory Logan of RoShamBo,…

We are hosting a “Climbing Zine Thing” on Thursday, August 10th at Jagged Edge Mountain Gear. Stories, poetry, and a…

We’re trying out something new today, with the release of our new Be The Goat shirt, designed by Mike Handzlik,…

Volume 23 is now available to order! Order/ subscribe here Cover photo of Kaya Lindsay on Whipping Boy by Mary…

These days the publication of each and every zine is a small miracle. And, for the publication of Volume 23…

My phone was blowing up before I even read the editorial. Last week the Dana Johnson of the group Wilderness…