Epic

When both lead ropes get cut in the Potrero, the author is doomed unless the unexpected and unexplained can intervene.

Nick Bullock and Greg Boswell are attacked by a grizzly bear on Mount Wilson in the Canadian Rockies.

Three greenhorn wall climbers headed up the Big Stone in 1981. They vowed to reach the top or nearly die trying. They got their wish.

The day that nearly did our intrepid explorer in. He wrote it up as soon as he could use his hands again.

Unbelievable save on Astroman. A once-in-a-lifetime lucky moment of bad luck.

Some things are scarier than broken bones.... The author recounts the epics he's experienced throughout his climbing career. The ones that changed him were commonplace.

An easy day's outing turned nearly deadly when the author set aside his own experience and instead trusted an inexperienced "guide"

Some days everything goes wrong.

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."

They were on one of the world's highest and most difficult faces. Then a storm rolled in and the climb went from merely desperate to living hell.

The 1970s were heady times in Yosemite, ruled by the high kings of rock, The Stonemasters. And then there were the HoseMasters, ordinary climbers who did something extraordinary.

He survived avalanche, crevasse fall, storm, being struck by lightning, but always scraped through, somehow.

An outing on the Lightning Bolt Cracks attracted more than just climbers when lightning struck the summit.

In the winter of 1986, three highly experienced Yosemite wall climbers were trapped for days in a blizzard on Half Dome's South Face.

An earthquake and cataclysmic avalanches in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, spell tragedy for hundreds—and a close call for Colin Haley.

The Kiwi alpinist Pat Deavoll was just below the summit of Alaska's Peak 11,520 when the whole face around her cut loose. It was the beginning of the ordeal of a lifetime.

“Just another 40 feet, Nick. You’re doing great. I reckon you’re higher than Leo Houlding was before he fell off and hit the ground.”

Over a dozen avalanches, rockfall, a core-shot rope, and single-piece anchors tested this team to the limit during a harrowing stormy descent from a remote face in Glacier National Park.

Question: How do you escape a cloud of angry killer bees when you're hundreds of feet off the deck ? Answer: It's not easy.

Lydia Bradey of New Zealand was the first woman to climb Everest without O2. Her biggest test by far came earlier.

After saving a few lives on Everest's North Ridge, Warner was struck by an errant oxygen canister—and had to save himself.

A routine climb in the Canadian Rockies turns nightmarish when a grizzly bear has two climbers scrambling for their lives.

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After decades of alpine climbing, Mark Jenkins reaches a simple truth.

When four young climbers with big-mountain dreams went north to tackle Canada’s highest peak, they had no idea how close they’d come to never returning. Here are their stories.