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Drew Ruana’s Rise To The Top Of American Bouldering

James Lucas

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A Poem, To The Girl Who Feels Pressure To Define Herself

Allison Vest

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Three Classic Climbing Tales By John Long

John Long

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“I Wanted to Completely Change the Dynamic on 8,000-meter Peaks”: A Q&A With Nims Purja

Steven Potter

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Climbers Come Unclipped At Anchor, A Life-Saving Body Belay Ensues

A tiny ledge three pitches off the ground. The anchor is unclipped. Your belayer has just fallen over the edge. Now what?

Dougald MacDonald

Purists in the 1980s Thought Comps Wouldn’t Last. Snowbird Changed Everything.

Alison Osius

Paraclimber Maureen Beck: “If You’re Complaining A Lot, You Should Change The Situation”

Maureen Beck

Ordeal in the Andes

Owen Clarke

Will Alex Honnold Stop Free Soloing When His Daughter Is Born? We Asked. He Answered.

Michael Levy

The Sharp End of Parenthood

Tristan Hobson

A Bouldering Fall Shattered Her Ankle. She Chose Amputation, And Is Climbing Better Than Ever

Delaney Miller

“I Don’t Give Up On Boulders”: A Conversation With Matt Fultz

Steven Potter

Ordinary Heroes: Never Mono a Bolt Hanger—Unless You’re Saving Someone’s Life

Dougald MacDonald

The Triumphs and Tragedy of Patrick Edlinger

Ed Douglas

“The Dean of Red Rock” and Caesars Palace Dealer, Wendell Broussard, Dies at 81

Stephanie Forte

50th Birthday MoonBoard Challenge: Epic Fail?

Matt Samet

The Mountain Path: A Death-Defying Lead and a First Ascent on Torre Central, Patagonia

Paul Pritchard

Who Gets Hurt Sport Climbing? Um, A Few Of Us

Alison Osius

Trapped By A 600-pound Block, He Would Have Died Except For A Quick-Thinking Partner

Dougald MacDonald

Can Climbing’s New Rules on Lingo Be Both Right and Censorship at the Same Time?

Jeff Jackson

From Local Peaks to Alpinism’s Highest Honor, How One Climber Manages Risk to Achieve His Dreams

ian welsted

Brittany Griffith, Worldclass Chef and Climber, Is the Ideal Expedition Partner

James Lucas

Coming Up For Air: When Climbing Isn’t The Only Battle

DELANEY MILLER AND MIMI NISSAN

“Climbing Is What Got Me This Far”: He’s 33; Doctors Gave Him Until Age 25

Klaas Willems

Why You Should Seek Out the Sisterhood of the Rope

Katie Lambert

Are They Pros or Poseurs? How Social Media is Defining Our Sport’s Elite

Dave Wetmore

Ordinary Heroes: Escaping a 2,000-Foot Alaskan Wall With a Paralyzed Partner

Dougald MacDonald

Three Timeless Stories by Stonemaster John Long

John Long

Photo Essay: Yosemite’s Stone Monkeys Climbed Hard and Lived on the Fringe

Cedar Wright

An Open Letter to My Tendons and Ligaments, Which I Have Wronged

Kevin Corrigan

A Story of Hope: How Climbing Lifted Kids Out of The Slums of Rio

Libby Sauter and Matt Othmer

Ordinary Heroes: Though He Was Killed by Rockfall, His Belay Hand Never Left the Rope

Dougald MacDonald

What’s the Point of Climbing? A Lifer Weighs In

Katie Lambert

“Squeeze My Hand” – The Gym Fall That Almost Cost an Arm

Jennifer Nicely

Rock Therapy: How Climbing Saved Cedar Wright and Lucho Rivera From Their Downward Spirals

Cedar Wright

To Bolt or Not to Bolt? The Frightful Story of Air China (5.13+ R)

Matt Segal

Peter Mortimer, Director of “The Alpinist”, On How to Make Better Climbing Films

JP Whitehead

Aman Anderson, Founder of Beast Fingers, Doesn’t Want Climbing To Exclude Anyone

Amelia Arvesen

“There Is Something After Life,” Carlos Carsolio, Fourth Person to Climb all 8,000-Meter Peaks

Alison Osius

Long Warmups and Why Double Rest Days Suck: Matt Samet on Turning 50

Matt Samet

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