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UPDATE: the second edition of Squeak! has been released. Same great story, with a couple updates, including The Climbers Pact…

My one-year-old and I are in Rocklands, South Africa, when I let a stinky one slip inside a bouldering cave,…

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

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

“Ummm…honey, you know that nice hiking weekend we have coming up together? Well, ahhh…Dale just asked me if I…ummm…could climb…

I’m sweating in the Colombian sun as I reach for a big flat hold on inverted sandstone. I clip a…