Many years ago, in the dead of winter, I shouldered a pack stuffed with ice-climbing gear and skied deep into the Canadian Rockies. I was broke, sporadically employed, and had terrible climbing tactics.

My partner Karl and I worked up quite the sweat breaking trail for six undulating miles that afternoon and stopped for the night below our intended route, a sweeping r...

Today, brands have such wide lines of rock shoes that it’s hard to believe there were once only a handful of options. But the sport has evolved massively since the crack-and-slab epoch, and we now need climbing shoes for a huge range of applications. For indoor aficionados, there are spray walls, boarding, bouldering, lead routes, and comp-style coordination. And for o...

Eleven years ago, the legendary climber and BASE jumper Dean Potter—one of the world’s best free soloists, before Alex Honnold came along—died in a wingsuit accident off Taft Point in Yosemite Valley. He left behind a

Bouldering legend John “Verm” Sherman describes the narrative arc of the average climbing film as follows: Hero picks outlandish project, can’t quite do it, comes back, finally succeeds and everybody’s happy.

While he would have taken the happy ending for his Midnight Lightning project, the finale that he wound up with holds lessons for climbers and athle...

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There are not many rules in climbing, much less in alpine climbing. But I decided to make one for myself sev...