Stewart's Climbing Blog May 2008 Archive

I’m on the road to find out right now so this will be quick. I’m driving a friend and all her stuff from Colorado to Canada. So the past couple ... Read More

After the Chinese torch relay reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 8 and the mountain was cleared for the rest of the waiting parties to climb, a slew ... Read More

In his compelling climbing narrative This Game of Ghosts British climber Joe Simpson, climber, mountaineer, and author of Touching the Void, one of the best climbing books ever written, ... Read More

Tommy Caldwell, the 29-year-old climbing machine from Estes Park, Colorado, continues to leave his mark on Yosemite Valley’s El Capitan, the grandest big wall in the world. In a spring ... Read More

I recently read an advance copy of the recently released book Dark Summit by Nick Heil. The book, yet another in the vast Mount Everest adventure genre, investigates and details ... Read More

Edward Abbey, park ranger, fire lookout, writer, and sometime climber, on ascending Mount Tukuhnikivats in the La Sal Mountains above Moab, Utah: “Then why climb Tukuhnikivats? Because I prefer to. Because ... Read More

It's almost summer here in Colorado. The other day I was climbing out at Atomic Energy Crag, a wild and lonely cliff band perched high above the Paradox Valley in ... Read More

Moonset over Pikes Peak…or is it Denali? Photograph © Stewart M. Green Bob Schaffer, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Colorado, probably needs to take a refresher course in Colorado mountain geography. ... Read More

Snowy bouldering on The Ragged Edge on Pikes Peak, Colorado. Photograph © Stewart M. Green Chris Sharma, the best American rock climber, on rock climbing: "The strongest climbers aren’t always the happiest or ... Read More

Rob, Brian, CJ—do your mothers know what you’re up to? Yeah, we're on the summit of Independence Monument! Photograph © Stewart M. Green So Mother's Day is this Sunday. What are you ... Read More

The Beijing Olympic torch held by Jiji was ignited by Luobuzhandui at 9:12 am on Mt. Qomolangma on Thursday. Photograph courtesy Beijing Olympic Committee. Well, we can all breathe a sigh ... Read More

The past fair weather windows have come and gone but the Olympic torch still resides somewhere down on the north side of Mount Everest. The May 10 deadline that the ... Read More

Ed Webster, famed Everest mountaineer, at Indian Creek Canyon, Utah, April 2008. Photograph © Stewart M. Green My friend Ed Webster, a great American mountaineer and climber who was on the 1988 ... Read More

As of today, May 4, the Olympic torch has not officially reached the summit. I reported a couple days ago that the PeakFreaks website had claimed that the torch had ... Read More

High winds aloft have stymied Chinese attempts to bring the Olympic torch to Everest’s summit. Photograph © Allen Kearney, Getty Images The reports from Mount Everest just keep getting stranger, now being ... Read More