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Climbing Magazine’s Back Issue Index

Back issues of Climbing Magazine can be found in the Back Issue Index, available in these PDFs, which include all issues from 1970 to 2003.

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You can find an Index of Climbing Magazine’s back issues (up to #219) by downloading the following PDFs. By Eve Tallman and Ralph Ferrara.

Each index references significant articles and news published in Climbing magazine. Each entry cites relevant information, including subject, author or title when this is a notable point of interest, and department (i.e. Book Review, Feature, Hot Flashes, Cairn, etc.). Issue numbers appear in parentheses, followed by the beginning page number of the referenced article. Dates of each issue are listed at the end of the index.

Issue #1 (May 1970) through Issue #149 (December 1994). 

Issue #150 (February 1995) through Issue #219 (March 2003) 

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