A Line Across The Sky – Tommy Caldwell And Alex Honnold Go Big In Patagonia
A Line Across the Sky | Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold | Patagonia Watch on youtube
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Project 360: The Eiger's North Face
Mammut is back again with another cool multimedia project, this time it's a 360 degree interactive photo/video tour of the legendary Eiger North Face . Cool stuff. Climbing.com has...
Honnold & Caldwell Pull Off "Mother Of All Traverses" In Patagonia
Rolando Garibotti, reporting in a post on SuperTopo : Between the 12th and 16th of February, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold completed the first ascent of the much discussed "Fitz...
Ueli Steck Interview By Hervè Barmasse
Video interview of Ueli Steck by Hervè Barmasse, one week after the "28 hours run" on the new route "C'est la vie" on the South Face of Annapurna.
Ueli Steck - Annapurna South Face
Ueli Steck - Annapurna South Face - Quick Edit from Nepal Watch on vimeo
Ueli Steck And Annapurna
PlanetMountain once again with the news making interview , this time with Ueli Steck after his incredible solo of the South Face of Annapurna: Everything calmed down. Just like I'd...
The Disposable Man
Interesting piece on Outside Online about the plight of Sherpas working in the Everest region: A Sherpa working above Base Camp on Everest is nearly ten times more likely to die th...
Context On Nanga Parbat Massacre
Steve Swenson gives some fascinating context surrounding the massacre at Nanga Parbat's basecamp the other weekend: I've been on eleven climbing expeditions to Pakistan. Although t...
The Road From Karakol
The Road from Karakol Watch on youtube
Gunmen Kill Climbers In Northern Pakistan
Terrible news out of Pakistan : In one of the most brazen attacks on foreigners in the country in recent years, militants killed nine tourists and one Pakistani on a mountaineering...
Trailer: COLD
COLD - TRAILER Watch on vimeo
Retrieving Jeff Lowe's Pack From The Eiger
Jeff Lowe's Pack Retrieved from Eiger North Face Watch on vimeo
And Now For A Cleansing Of The Palette...
Surely all of the indoor pebble wrestling talk that has permeated this site of late has rubbed some of you the wrong way. While I love indoor climbing just as much as the next guy...
News & Notes – 3/29/2010
News & Notes about an 8 year-old sending V10, a new climbing gym, route development and much more...
News & Notes – 1/27/2010
News & Notes from the OR Winter Market, Chris Sharma, Iker Pou and more
New AAC Grant Inspired By Jonny Copp & Micah Dash
The American Alpine Club has created the Copp-Dash Inspire Award to honor Jonny Copp & Micah Dash
Pete Takeda Remembers Jonny Copp
Writing on the Cleanest Line blog, Pete Takeda remembers his friend Jonny Copp .
Climbing Videos: Alpine Climbing In Canada & Alaska
One of the trends in the online climbing world that's gaining popularity is the self-filmed expedition report. While quality photographs of alpine expeditions make for great eye c...
Craig Luebben Killed In Cascades Icefall
Climber, guide, author and Climbing Magazine Senior Contributing Editor Craig Luebben died yesterday while climbing on Mount Torment in Washington's Cascades. UPDATED.
Video Tributes to Micah Dash, Jonny Copp & Wade Johnson
Two moving videos about climbers Micah Dash, Jonny Copp & Wade Johnson who were recently lost in China.
Micah Dash, Jonny Copp & Wade Johnson Lost In China
It’s not often the untimely death that sometimes finds those that use the mountains as their playground hits home in the rock climbing community, but unfortunately that is exactly...
CO Based Mountaineers Missing In China
The news of the possible disappearance in China of Boulder, CO based climbers Micah Dash and Jonny Copp along with filmmaker Wade Johnson has been blazing around the internet today...
Pictures Of The Bolting On Everest
Bolts on Everest?? THE HORROR!!!
Sir Edmund Hillary Dead at Age 88
Sir Edmund Hillary, probably the first person (along with Tenzing Norgay ) to summit Mt. Everest in 1953 died Friday in New Zealand. Famous for both his strength and his humility,...
News & Notes - 11/7/07
I realize lately that I have been spending too much time blogging about myself and not enough time talking about all the action going down elsewhere so here goes nothing: During hi...
NOLS Alaska
Approximate location of my NOLS course with Anchorage and Denali NP pictured. Back in High School, circa 1999, I was required to read Krakauer's Into Thin Air for an English class....
Midweek News - 08/22/07
Here are a few interesting stories to check out Splitterchoss has a couple of cool tidbits on climbing at Rifle. First is a post about a feature story done about climbing at Rifle...
Big "E" Update
Summit fever is in full effect again on Everest this year. With 480 ascents last year and well over 200 already this year, Everest is almost turning into your local Colorado 14er.....
Super Sherpa Expedition
Along with my passion for rock climbing news I also have a fading obsession with armchair mountaineering. With May rapidly approaching that can mean only one thing: it is Everest S...