How many climbers are in the United States? There is no firm number. An Outdoor Industry Association survey shows that the number of Americans over the age of 16 that ... Read More

Reinhold Messner, born and raised in the Villnöss Valley among the Dolomite mountains of northern Italy, is quite simply the greatest mountaineer of the 20th century and perhaps of all ... Read More

Yesterday, I went up to a new unclimbed cliff overlooking a hidden valley near Pikes Peak. It’s a big cliff, broken into four immense buttresses that are divided by three ... Read More

Yosemite National Park has long been the crucible of American rock climbing. Yosemite Valley, or The Valley as locals call it, is a mythic climbing area. Here are the famed ... Read More

Lynn Hill, a California-raised climber, has lived a life of superlatives. In the 1990s Lynn Hill was not only the best female climber in the world but also the world’s ... Read More

I’ve known Ed Webster since 1975 when he was a young student at Colorado College. After that I went on a lot of climbing trips around the American West with ... Read More

Mark Twight became a bold and extreme alpinist in the late 1980s with a knack for climbing hard ice, dangerous peaks, and surviving with skill and smarts. Some of his ... Read More

Your climbing harness is not just a piece of equipment but it becomes part of you when you’re climbing. It’s intimately bound to you around your waist and upper legs. ... Read More

Check out this profile of Harvey T. Carter written by Dave Philipps in the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper. Dave also posted a lot of photos of Harvey T at the ... Read More

Chuck Pratt, a Yosemite big-wall pioneer in the 1960s, was a climber’s climber and an original hardman. He was the man in his day. Pratt, along with Royal Robbins and ... Read More