Are We Born to Climb? by D Scott Borden
Is climbing as innate as sharing, copulating, greed, or even walking? Many evolutionary biologists would offer that the essence of…
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Our Climbing Children’s Book: Squeak Goes Climbing in Yosemite National Park
UPDATE: the second edition of Squeak! has been released. Same great story, with a couple updates, including The Climbers Pact…
Bad Climbing Daddy by D Scott Borden
My one-year-old and I are in Rocklands, South Africa, when I let a stinky one slip inside a bouldering cave,…
Rasta, A Wise and Crafty Crag Dog by D Scott Borden
Editor’s note: Longtime Climbing Zine contributor D Scott Borden wrote this piece for Volume 7, and sadly as the Zine…
The Ask: How to Get Permission to Climb by D Scott Borden
“Ummm…honey, you know that nice hiking weekend we have coming up together? Well, ahhh…Dale just asked me if I…ummm…could climb…
Colombian Policy by D Scott Borden
I’m sweating in the Colombian sun as I reach for a big flat hold on inverted sandstone. I clip a…