John Gill

The first dyno? The longest dyno? A system for grading dynos?

Michel Serres, mountaineer and philosopher, wrote that inhabiting the body and finding flow can serve as antidotes to our increasingly immaterial digital world. It worked for me.

Until Gill came along bouldering was regarded as a leisure activity. He brought it front and center, legitimizing what is today perhaps climbing's most popular discipline.

Tired of bickering over climbing grades? Then check out this new, streamlined rating system.

On the sharp end and otherwise at the Midwest's most storied climbing area.

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