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I was young, dumb, and ambitious. But I should have known that 5.10 slab wasn’t a great place to start.

"I used to be a bit of a rock climber myself. Now I haven't so much as touched a hold in—gosh, how long has it been?—four or five weeks."

How moving sideways has pushed me up.

For "conquistadors of the useless," climbers sure love getting into bitter disputes about how we enjoy ourselves.

A lot of people love ice climbing. This one is for those of you that don't, but go anyway.

“I think we’ve forgotten that in order to be good at climbing, you have to climb.”—Jonathan Siegrist, who is a nicer guy than you or me and climbs harder, too.

In 2007 Cedar Wright and Renan Ozturk made an alpine-style FA of the 2,500-foot Northern Cat’s Ear Spire, the last unclimbed spire in the Great Trango Group. In the process he realized a thing or two about "style."

"In a sport that prizes youth and energy and boldness and good health, it is, I realize, anathema to confess to any sort of weakness..." But sometimes embracing your weakness can help.

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

Hold on, I know what you’re thinking! Celibacy solves nothing. But here's where you're wrong.

After climbing every bolted route below 5.9 in Boulder Canyon, Kevin Corrigan learns an essential truth about rock climbing.

Climbing partners can be poor substitutes for real friends, but they don't have to be.

It’s easy to think that we can look after our pets’ needs at the cliff, but, in reality, we can’t.

If you observe any of these symptoms in your friends or in yourself, don’t delay. Consult your crag doctor as soon as possible. Together, we can beat common climbing diseases.

High-gravity days aren't sourceless malignancies; they have causes, which means they have solutions.

While it certainly helps to climb 5.15, you don’t actually have to.

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If you’re an aspiring trad leader, this document will provide you with more bad advice than you can shake a rack of hexes at.

How skinny do we really need to be to crush? Where do you draw the line between strategic dieting and an unhealthy eating disorder?

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Getting out on the rock has greater benefits beyond simply being fun.

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Make climbing great again

Check out this hard-won advice from one of climbing's veterans.

Forging a partnership on The Young and the Rackless in sub-par conditions.

We both know you’re not going to use that hangboard. Try these 8 ideas instead.

Dating a mountain guide can sound sexy, but there’s a lot of fine print. Here’s a primer.

The ties that bind

After several personal losses, our columnist reexamines her relationship to speed.

An eight-part questionnaire

Escaping the trap of outdated ethics

It may be time to rethink the mythology of dirtbagging.

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Get swole on the cheap in the age of COVID-19.

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Remedying the teaching and leadership gap for women climbers

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How the internet became a climbing-anger machine

How resisting change holds back the sport—and puts lives at risk

AKA the insane rantings of the world’s saltiest, most impatient climbing partner

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Confronting the knotty issue of fixed ropes

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Reaching past your shortcomings.

Why our sport—despite appearances—isn’t in fact selfish.

The problem with getting what you asked for.

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How truth In climbing makes you stronger

How our simple presence Impacts and even disrupts crag fauna

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How the new school trains to train

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Life lessons from a fermented peach

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Unsent /un-sent/ 1. To have failed so badly on a route you had previously climbed that you negate your redpoint. 2. A humor column.

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The human side of the superhuman climber who free soloed El Capitan

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As new media allows us to see more of climbers’ daily routines, our expectations are becoming conversely more outlandish.

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Polo’s latest scent claims to “ignite the thrill-seeker in every man.” To climbers, it adds to an already complicated history of branding.

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