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Outside April 2009 Conrad Anker	Why Am I Here Again? India's Shark's Fin is a 6,500-foot rock route that's twice as long and just as steep as anything on El Capitan, and once left me defeated.
Outside December 2008 Matt Samet	The Psychedelic First Tommy Caldwell needed a challenge, so he decided to hoist his clanking gear rack and free-climb one of Yosemite's hardest routes in 24 hours or less.
Outside June 2006 Katie Arnold	She Rocks Steph Davis knows the downside of being one of the world's best women climbers like living out of a car for seven years and having your mom suggest (frequently) that you're out of your mind. The upside? Yosemite. The Andes. And a life in which every day is a thrilling vertical grab.
Outside April 2005 Elizabeth Weil	Babes on Belay Four young climbers hit the road in search of big rock, girl power, and a heavenly interlude of physical bliss.
Outside June 2003 Nick O'Connell	Mountaineering 101: Top Ten From Half Dome to Denali, meet the best teachers in the business, progressively ratchet up your skill set, and graduate at the top of the continent.
Outside May 2009 Dougald MacDonald	Yosemite Roulette Climbing El Capitan without rope, gear, or safety net.
Outside March 2007 John Harlin III	Rising Son Can a reluctant climber avoid his fate? In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, The Eiger Obsession, John Harlin III faces his legacy and the mountain that killed his Father.
AskMen.com Steve Richer	How To: Go Rock Climbing Learn the basics of rock climbing, including what gear you'll need and where to go.
Outside December 2002 Rob Buchanan	Climbing at the Speed of Soul With his supreme skills on rock, hypercompetitive intensity, and new-age bag of tricks, Dean Potter scrambles up big walls faster than any man alive. So what's the trajectory of all this velocity?
Outside September 2005 Mark Jenkins	The Elements of Style It's time for a radical reform of high-altitude mountaineering -- and a fresh debate over what it means to climb right
Outside September 2003 Maria Coffey	The Survivors "He died doing what he loved best," they always say. But when climbers meet their end on the high peaks, the ordeal is just beginning for their wives, husbands, children, parents, and friends. An exclusive excerpt from Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow
Outside January 2007 Dave Hahn	The No Fall Zone When free skier Kit DesLauriers dropped in at 29,035 feet on Mount Everest in October, she became the first person to ski off the Seven Summits.
Outside August 2008 Pete Takeda	Last Night I Dreamed I Had Legs A degenerative nerve disease is destroying the body of Jeff Lowe, one of climbing's greatest athletes and innovators. He's seen hard times before, on mountains and in life. But how do you keep going when there's no way up?
Outside January 2009 Justin Nyberg	New Kid on the Rock At only 24, Seattle's Colin Haley has turned heads around the world with career-making alpine climbs. He's driven to be the best risky business in an era when the cutting edge leaves no margin for error.
Outside August 2001 Mark Synnott	Spires of the Bugaboos Forget the Yosemite circus. Head north to Bugaboo Provincial Park, a fortress of world-class granite in a quiet corner of British Columbia...
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Christie Aschwanden	Joaquin Espinosa's Rock Climbing Adventures A scientists explains his attraction to rock climbing.
Fast Company December 2003 Jim Collins	Leadership Lessons of a Rock Climber For this noted management writer and thinker, the mountain is the ultimate classroom. Here's what he has learned from climbing it.
Outside September 2004	Tommy Caldwell Climbs Yosemite's El Capitan Over four days this past May, the 26-year-old Estes Park, Colorado-based climber completed what is arguably the greatest big-wall climb in history.
Outside September 2006	What the Pros Know: Mount Everest Guides Debate The experts weight in on the risks and rewards of climbing Mount Everest.
Outside September 2006 Ed Douglas	Over the Top David Sharp's lonely death on Mount Everest revived the old, raging debates about personal ethics and the wisdom of commercially guided climbing.
Outside May 2002 Mark Kroese	Queen of the Mountain In her new autobiography, Lynn Hill, the worlds's most accomplished female rock climber, looks back on three decades of big climbs, big falls, and bigger egos...
Popular Mechanics July 3, 2008 Peter Fimrite	2900 Feet in 2 Hours, 43 Minutes! Yosemite Climbers Set Record A Lafayette, Calif., rock climber and his Japanese partner snatched the world record for fastest climb up the Nose of El Capitan on Wednesday in a thrilling, heart-stopping display of strength, endurance, concentration and pure guts.
Outside April 2010 Bruce Barcott	Into Teen Air He's 13 years old, and he'-s headed up to 29,000 feet. As a new generation of adventurous kids post monster feats at younger and younger ages, Jordan Romero has his elders asking: Just how young is too young?
Outside December 2005 Conrad Anker	Improving the Odds for Sherpas This all-star pantheon created the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation (ALCF) to teach Sherpas more about avalanche forecasting and crevasse rescue.
Outside June 2004 Greg Child	Technicolor Darkness In the red-rock high ground of South Africa, climbing still comes down to black and white. The author goes on belay to explore the crags, boulder gardens, and post-Apartheid complications of the world's next climbing mecca.
Outside July 2007 Kevin Fedarko	High Times You were told that Everest base camp is an insult to the true spirit of mountaineering. But why weren't you told about the excellent bars, the butter people, and that friendly playboy bunny from Poland?
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 Stanley Holmes	Thrills And Chills Scaling frozen walls isn't for the fainthearted. But once you find your footing, ice climbing can become addictive.
Outside February 2007	Conrad Anker & Jenni Lowe A new documentary details the history of the foundation of the Khumbu Climbing School.
Outside December 2005 Nick Heil	The Light of Seven Mountain Suns The Himalayan Cataract Project is curing blindness overnight in the most remote villages of Nepal and India.
Outside March 2010 Sam Moulton	Spring Break Wild weather makes the next couple of months the hardest time of the year to plan an adventure. To help you out, we've worked up game plans for all kinds of conditions. Your job? Just check the doppler then go.
Outside June 2003 Clyde Soles	Chalk It Up Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day.
Knowledge@Wharton September 24, 2003	A Lofty Take on Leadership: Mountain Climbing and Managing Companies Wharton management professor Michael Useem has just published a book using experiences in mountain climbing to describe how business leaders reach their summits.
High on Adventure June 2003 Dena Bartolome	A "Peak" Experience Hiking and climbing Spain's hidden Picos de Europa
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Jim Gorman	The Sierra Skyway A guide to visiting Yosemite National Park and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Outside June 2003	Virgin Ascents So you want to climb a mountain, but you've never done it before. No sweat -- there's a first time for everything. Even the world's greatest climbers were once beginners like you, gearing up with ropes, carabiners and crampons and heading for the hills for their first technical ascents.
Wired May 2000 Andrew Rice	High Trek Blizzard-ready laptops, snow-penetrating radar, titanium ice screws - an all-new breed of technical climber is tackling Everest this spring.
Outside May 2007 Abrahm Lustgarten	Automated Response Helicopter rescues on the summit of Everest may soon be reality. And the pilot won't be anywhere in sight.
High on Adventure August 2001	Yosemite on Horseback Riding the high country in early autumn...
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Ken Kamler	Steroids on Everest The latest trend in mountaineering, steroids, may be pushing climbers over the edge.
Outside April 2005	Mixed Climbing Skills Climbers have long used bolts and mechanical aids on impossibly blank sections of wall, and in the 1990s "mixed climbing" stars like Canmore, Alberta-based Will Gadd began crossing from ice to rock and back without changing equipment.
Outside May 2003	Everest's Destiny Hold on to your crampons. May 29 marks the 50th anniversary of the first successful summit of Mount Everest, by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Record crowds of climbers, trekkers, and gawkers are expected to cram the mountain.
Outside May 2008 Jason Daley	Forget Me Not Jennifer Lowe-Anker, the wife of a mountaineer killed in an avalanche, shares the harrowing tale from her perspective in this new book.