Climbing Culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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