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Climbing Culture

Where to Find The Climbing Zine – Independent Outlets

Climbing CultureBy LukeDecember 9, 2018Leave a comment

The Climbing Zine and Benighted Publications pride ourselves on independent distribution. Below is a list of our beloved retailers where…

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Time Continuum of Desert Road Tripping by Kevin Volkening

Climbing CultureBy LukeJune 5, 20182 Comments

The Pinnacle of Technology, as we called her drifted through the endless space, the time continuum that is road tripping.…

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Keep Calm and Climb On by D. Scott Borden

Climbing Culture, UncategorizedBy LukeMay 1, 2018Leave a comment

Squish Squash, Squish Squash, Squish, the English mud through my toes feels soothing as I perch 30 feet above a…

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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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Rambling In The Bugaboos by David Fay

Climbing CultureBy LukeFebruary 7, 2017Leave a comment

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

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Rasta, A Wise and Crafty Crag Dog by D Scott Borden

Climbing CultureBy LukeDecember 25, 2016Leave a comment

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

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