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From Midas’s Touch to A Green Thumb: Remembering Doug Tompkins by Joy Martin

Climbing CultureBy LukeJanuary 9, 2021Leave a comment

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)

LocationsBy LukeNovember 17, 2020Leave a comment

My path as a climber had to face a most real enemy: pure unadulterated fear. This fear manifested itself in…

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Climbing Past War by Stacy Bare

LocationsBy LukeNovember 11, 20201 Comment

The uninitiated, those who don’t climb, always ask me why I do. I normally begin my response with the statement…

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Where The Winds Hit Heavy by Matt Spohn

LocationsBy LukeNovember 1, 2020Leave a comment

The granite escarpments of Castle Crags silhouetted the western skyway, massive gargoyles hunched and staring. I thought of my mother’s…

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The Long Run, a profile of Alan Carne by Luke Mehall

Climbing CultureBy LukeOctober 20, 20201 Comment

“There were no girls when I started climbing [in England],” Alan said, in a tone more serious than joking. I’d…

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Flirting with The Nose In A Day in The Valley of Stone

Climbing CultureBy LukeOctober 12, 20202 Comments

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” Goerte I…

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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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Jugs on Jugs by Gaelen Engler

Climbing CultureBy LukeFebruary 8, 201722 Comments

Pulling into The Chief campground in Squamish for my first time, I had to double-check the sign to make sure…

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A Climber In The Winter of His Content

Indian CreekBy LukeJanuary 28, 20171 Comment

“You know there’s something special you’re needing. And you know there’s no drug that’ll do the healing, and no liquor…

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Sacred Space by Drew Thayer (art by Rhiannon Williams)

LocationsBy LukeJuly 31, 2016Leave a comment

Right now, this detail is all that matters: the carabiner just fell back into the crack, and you’re staring it…

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American Climber – Kickstarter is FUNDED

UncategorizedBy LukeMarch 31, 2016Leave a comment

After a decade of writing, and re-writing, my memoir, American Climber is finally complete. It is a 75,000 word tale…

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Protecting Abbey Country – Love Letters To The Desert

LocationsBy LukeMarch 20, 2016Leave a comment

I am sitting in front of my computer, doing what I do to make my pennies, but in a few…

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Rock Climbing Gives Us Feminism by Georgie Abel

LocationsBy LukeMarch 18, 20161 Comment

“What about you, Georgie? Are you a feminist?” I was sitting around a campfire with a group of friends. I…

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Review: Yosemite In The Fifties

LocationsBy LukeMarch 10, 2016Leave a comment

The story of climbing in Yosemite is one that is well known and well told, and at times it seems…

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Book Review: The Alchemy of Action by Doug Robinson

LocationsBy LukeFebruary 16, 2016Leave a comment

Books often inspire me more than the imagery or dialogue in a movie and I think it has to do…

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