From Midas’s Touch to A Green Thumb: Remembering Doug Tompkins by Joy Martin
Doug Tompkins opens the door to a South American summer evening. At seventy-one—stooped and shuffling, a button-down shirt tucked into…
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Benighted in The Black Canyon – (excerpt from American Climber by Luke Mehall)
My path as a climber had to face a most real enemy: pure unadulterated fear. This fear manifested itself in…
Climbing Past War by Stacy Bare
The uninitiated, those who don’t climb, always ask me why I do. I normally begin my response with the statement…
Where The Winds Hit Heavy by Matt Spohn
The granite escarpments of Castle Crags silhouetted the western skyway, massive gargoyles hunched and staring. I thought of my mother’s…
The Long Run, a profile of Alan Carne by Luke Mehall
“There were no girls when I started climbing [in England],” Alan said, in a tone more serious than joking. I’d…
Flirting with The Nose In A Day in The Valley of Stone
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Goerte I…
Awake On El Cap by Tristan Greszko
Awake. Alone. It’s 3 am. Only two more hours to sleep, the clock is ticking. The world is silent. Maybe…
Jugs on Jugs by Gaelen Engler
Pulling into The Chief campground in Squamish for my first time, I had to double-check the sign to make sure…
A Climber In The Winter of His Content
“You know there’s something special you’re needing. And you know there’s no drug that’ll do the healing, and no liquor…
Sacred Space by Drew Thayer (art by Rhiannon Williams)
Right now, this detail is all that matters: the carabiner just fell back into the crack, and you’re staring it…
American Climber – Kickstarter is FUNDED
After a decade of writing, and re-writing, my memoir, American Climber is finally complete. It is a 75,000 word tale…
Protecting Abbey Country – Love Letters To The Desert
I am sitting in front of my computer, doing what I do to make my pennies, but in a few…
Rock Climbing Gives Us Feminism by Georgie Abel
“What about you, Georgie? Are you a feminist?” I was sitting around a campfire with a group of friends. I…
Review: Yosemite In The Fifties
The story of climbing in Yosemite is one that is well known and well told, and at times it seems…
Book Review: The Alchemy of Action by Doug Robinson
Books often inspire me more than the imagery or dialogue in a movie and I think it has to do…