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Opinion: Rethinking Risk
Steph Davis free solos Jah Man on the Sister Superior Tower in Castle Valley, Moab, Utah. The connected tag line is to her BASE jumping rig hauled up to the summit for her BASE-jumping descent....
View ArticleYosemite Climbers Attempt Historic First Free Ascent of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall
Oh snap. The hardest pitch got sent by both of us tonight. I might be in a little shock right now. The route is taking a toll on our fingertips as we are now both climbing with taped up fingertips,...
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For a Climber on El Cap, a Dropped iPhone is Particularly Painful
Climber Tommy Caldwell shares his experience on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall route from high above Yosemite Valley with regular posts to social media sites via his iPhone—which he later dropped 1,500 feet;...
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Five Reasons Why the Dawn Wall First Free Ascent Has Pushed Climbing Forward
Tommy Caldwell and partner Kevin Jorgeson tackled an unprecedented amount of sustained, difficult climbing up 3,000 feet to complete the first free ascent of the Dawn Wall route onYosemite’s El...
View ArticleVideo: Yosemite Climbers on Dealing with Their New-Found Fame
Whatever public profile Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson had before they free climbed the Dawn Wall of El Capitan, it certainly got a lift once they reached the top. One of their first encounters with...
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Mountaineering’s Top Award Winners Announced—Including Rock Climbers...
Climbers Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold, both among our Adventurers of the Year, were honored with a Piolet d’Or for their Fitz Traverse in Patagonia; Photograph by Austin Siadak Three teams of...
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Remembering Pioneering Climber Dean Potter
Dean Potter climbing Half Dome in 2012, Yosemite, California; Photograph by Jimmy Chin More about Dean Potter: 7 Pictures Highlight Climber Dean Potter’s Extreme Moments How Dean Potter Reinvented...
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Adventurers Complete Quest to Climb and Ski Colorado’s 100 Highest Peaks
Christy Mahon skiing Colorado’s 13,835-foot Turret Peak on May 7, 2015, #97 on their list of 100. On this day they also climbed and skied Pigeon, peak #98;Photograph by Ted Mahon One of skier Chris...
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Climb Yosemite’s El Capitan Like a Rock Star—From Your Computer
“El Capitan is something every climber aspires to climb one day,” says Peter Mortimer, a Sender Films’ co-director of Valley Uprising, a 2014 documentary about the climbing history in Yosemite National...
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Exploring the Birthplace of Sport Climbing in Europe’s Grandest Canyon
Try to imagine falling off the very top of the Empire State Building. You fall six stories, crash into your friend who is hanging out of a window trying to catch you, drop another story, break your...
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Ten Years Later, REEL ROCK Tour Still Brings Climbing Films to Climbers, But...
Daniel Woods on the “High Ball” Boulder problem the Process, Bishop, California; Photograph by MAX KRIMMER The old saying that if there’s no camera, it didn’t happen, is especially true for climbing....
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Climber Comedian: Alex Honnold on Being Funny, Filmming His Own Climbs,...
Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell on the Fitz Traverse, Patagonia, Argentina; Photograph by Austin Siadak Who would’ve guessed that Alex Honnold was so funny? Yet it’s this celebrated California free...
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Climber Daniel Woods Trades Comfort for Fear in “Highball” Bouldering
Daniel Wood on the “highball” boulder problem the Process, Bishop, California; Photograph by Max Krimmer Climber Daniel Woods didn’t know whether to be happy or utterly horrified after having become...
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Yosemite Climber Tommy Caldwell Speaks on Risk, Reward, and Life After the...
Tommy Caldwell on the Dawn Wall (VI 5.14d), considered the longest, hardest free climb in the world. After spending 19 days on the wall, he and Kevin Jorgeson reached the summit of El Capitan in...
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To Hell and Back: Underdog Climbers Challenge Alex Honnold in 24-Hour Comp
One of the many costumes seen at the 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell. Photograph by Lucas Marshall Alex Honnold sure knows how to pack a lot of climbing into a single day. For example, in Yosemite in 2012,...
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Friends Remember the Passionate Life of Doug Tompkins
American environmental activist and eco-entrepreneur Doug Tompkins with his dog in Pumalin Park, Chile; Photograph by Luca Zanetti/Redux The death of North Face founder and conservationist Doug...
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Faster, Bigger, More Extreme: A ‘Point Break’ Remake for Today’s...
Photograph courtesy Warner Brothers The 1991 release of Point Break was a perfect preface to the next decade, in which adventure sports, then called extreme sports, rose out of obscurity and gripped...
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Explore Mont Blanc Like a Superstar Athlete with Google’s New Street View
Climber Ueli Steck on Mont BlancAt 4,808 meters (15,777 feet), Mont Blanc is Western Europe’s tallest peak, the crown of the Alps. Its broad snow-covered summit hangs in the sky like a massive...
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33-Year-Old Grand Canyon Speed Record Broken Twice in Three Days
Ben Orkin at the takeout after completing his quest to set a new speed record on the 277-mile stretch of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon, besting Team Beer’s record set three day’s prior by...
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Climbers Set Blistering Speed Record On Patagonia’s Torre Traverse
A starry sky over Cerro Torre, center, in Patagonia, Argentina; Photograph by Christian Vorhofer/Aurora In an astonishing record time of 20 hours and 40 minutes, climbers Colin Haley and Alex Honnold...
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