Andrew Bisharat

If reaching the summit isn't the most important thing in the world, then why do it? This climbing satirist thinks he knows.

In a sport that basically invented the phrase “inherent risk,” death is common. Yet for all the stories about lives lost to climbing, there are many, many more lives that have been saved by climbs.

You wouldn't pick up The Creepy hitchhiker, yet you'd gladly let him belay you. Why?

Have a kid and life as you know it is over. Retire those kneepads and downturned shoes, welcome to strollers and diapers and poos.

Punting on routes is the necessary mental chrysalis we use to achieve the next level as climbers. Everyone does it, and it's OK.

These films capture climbing at its best.

Andrew Bisharat dissects the art of the gear review, and relates some of his more memorable (mis)adventures during the process of gear testing.

Climbers always think they're injured. They're not injured, they just climb too much! But when it comes to something as urgent as our own performance, climbers will tell themselves anything but the truth.

Climbing can be a way to practice facing fear, coping with adversity, pushing yourself through hardship, or just learning how to stay present in the face of difficulty. But after losing my dog, I learned grief just doesn't get easier.

In the long run, technique will take you much further than a strong back and a vice grip. Instead of getting stronger, get better.

The two climbing greats teach important things about footwork, climbing holds, and how to avoid being a gumby.

The definitive guide to being a rotting degenerate.

The passing of a friend is hard, but can bind the community tighter even when we can't understand it.

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