Climbing Books, Quotes, & Words
Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park: Book Review
Read a guide book review of "Best Climbs Joshua Tree National Park" by Bob Gaines, a select rock climbing guide to over 250 of the best routes at Joshua Tree published by FalconGuides. This excellent climbing guide leads you to lots of great crack climbs and bolted sport routes on J-Tree's granite outcrops, domes, and cliffs.
My Best Climbing Route
Do you have a favorite or best climbing route that you’ll always remember? A route that comes back to you when you’re sitting at work or daydreaming about climbing? A route that is so good that you want to climb it again and again? Now’s your chance to share your climbing adventures and photos of your favorite routes. Tell us about your favorite route and share photographs of yourself or a …
Take Night Sky & Star Photos
It's surprisingly easy to make stunning photographs at night of star trails and the stars when you're outside on a climbing trip. All you need is a digital camera, tripod, and some basic exposure and composition information and you'll be wowing the audiences at your climbing slideshow.
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins, originally published in 1971, was once the best how-to-rock-climb book available. While some sections of the book are now dramatically out-dated, this classic book by an American master climber, offers lots of insights into the development of the Yosemite-style of climbing as well as Robbins' thoughts on...
Dark Summit — The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season
Book review of "The Dark Summit — The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season" by Nick Heil about Mount Everest and death and disaster on its north flank in 2006.
Backpacker Books from FalconGuides
Review of a book series on outdoor skills for backpackers, hikers, and climbers, published by FalconGuides and Backpacker Magazine, that are great pocket-sized books full of useful, practical, and portable information about a wide variety of outdoor topics, including using GPS, travel in bear country, outdoor survival, outdoor hazards,...
Take Better Climbing Photos
Climbing is one of the most photogenic sports. Find out about climbing photography and how to make better photos of your climbing and mountaineering experiences from climbing guide Stewart Green, a long-time professional adventure photographer.
5 Beginner Tips for Improving Your Climbing Photography
If you want to take better climbing photographs then you need to learn more about photography and start thinking like a photographer. Follow my 5 beginner photo tips to come home with great images: Get in the habit of taking lots of photos; climb regularly to have competent rock skills; look at lots of photographs and paintings to become...
John Bachar: American Rock Climbing Icon
John Bachar (1957-2009) was an iconic American climber who died in a fall free-soloing in California. Bachar, from southern California, was perhaps the best climber of his generation with numerous landmark ascents in Yosemite Valley, Joshua Tree, Colorado and other climbing areas. Read more about John Bachar and a timeline of his life and times.
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins
Basic Rockcraft by Royal Robbins, originally published in 1971, was once the best how-to-rock-climb book available. While some sections of the book are now dramatically out-dated, this classic book by an American master climber, offers lots of insights into the development of the Yosemite-style of climbing as well as Robbins' thoughts on...
Here's a quote from writer and climber Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, about his attempt to solo climb a fearsome wall on Devil Thumb in Alaska.
Bear Grylls Climbing Video: Not a "Master of Movement"
Bear Grylls, a controversial British television adventurer, starred in a rock climbing video on Tombstone Butter near Moab, Utah. Read my guide review of Bear Grylls Climbing Video "Master of Movement" and learn why this is one of the worst climbing videos and films every made.