Patagonia’s Best Rock To Its Worst, And Back Again. Two New Routes
An international team and a spell of good weather yields two new big-wall routes in Chile, one of which led to a virgin summit.
First Ascent
This First Ascent on Baruntse’s 1,300-Meter West Face Was Desperate From Beginning to End
Radoslav Groh and Marek Holeček encountered the most difficult climbing of their lives on the West Face of Baruntse. Then they were caught in a storm and spent multiple days trapped above 7,000 meters.
This Week In Review: First Ascents, Free Soloing, and Climbing as Therapy
We published close to thirty stories this week. Some were digitized versions of our latest print stories. Others were dusted off from Climbing's archives. Still more were original online content. Here are six stories that stood out.
How Underrepresented Groups Are Becoming Texas’s Next Big First Ascentionists
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