Steven Potter is a digital editor at Climbing. He's been flailing on rocks since 2004, has successfully injured (and unsuccessfully rehabbed) nearly every one of his fingers, and holds an MFA in ...

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We have received and published the following open letter entitled 'Alpine sport climbs ground-up first ascents: an art of climbing sportsmanship at risk of trivialisation'. Promoted by Michel Piola, ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...

Three American climbers lay in the dark, sharing a custom-made sleeping bag on a portable ledge dangling from a massive cliff high in the Himalayas. They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu ...

LAKE TAHOE – The Lake Tahoe Basin and surrounding Sierra Nevada first catapulted into national and international consciousness as a result of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. Since, the ...

If you think about the single action or movement that an alpine climber does the most, it has to be taking a step. It may not be the most glamorous aspect of mountain climbing, but the truth is that ...