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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... |
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. |
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 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 May 2009 Dougald MacDonald |
Yosemite Roulette Climbing El Capitan without rope, gear, or safety net. |
Outside November 2002 Shermakaye Bass |
False Summit A famed Texas climbing route gets cloned indoors. |
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 February 2008 Dave Hahn |
Aces High Make one of the world's greatest Everest guides face his fear of heights by sending him 3,000 feet up El Capitan with Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Ivo Ninov. The result will be panic attacks, cold sweats, and one order of Depends. |
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 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 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. |
Adventure Jun/Jul 2005 Jim Gorman |
The Sierra Skyway A guide to visiting Yosemite National Park and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. |
High on Adventure August 2001 |
Yosemite on Horseback Riding the high country in early autumn... |
High on Adventure June 2003 Dena Bartolome |
A "Peak" Experience Hiking and climbing Spain's hidden Picos de Europa |
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. |
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 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... |
Outside June 2010 Jennifer L. Schwartz |
Teva Games 2010: Daniel Woods 20-year-old climber Daniel Woods finished a disappointing second at the Teva Mountain Games' IFSC Bouldering World Cup. But the Boulder, Colorado-based prodigy is the favorite at this June's World Cup, in Vail. |
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. |
Outside March 2005 Rob Buchanan |
The Purists Flush with tech-boom cash and answering to no one, Alpinist chronicles the exploits of a loosely aligned group of climbers known as the Brotherhood, who devote themselves to difficult routes, minimal gear, and big-time pain and suffering. |
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. |
Outside June 2008 Claire Napier Galofaro |
Chris Sharma Chris Sharma is one of the world's strongest technical climbers but has lately favored travel over competition. |
Outside March 2002 Steven Threndyle |
Rising Star Sean Isaac competes at the Ice World Cup Final, the first ice-climbing world-cup event to be held in North America... |
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 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 |
Knowledge@Wharton Jamie Hammond |
Expedition to Ecuador: Leadership and Teamwork at 19,000 Ft. The author joined 13 others on a week-long trip to Ecuador as part of Wharton Leadership Ventures, a program designed to help participants develop leadership skills while climbing some of the highest and most beautiful mountains in the world... |
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 January 2009 Claire Napier Galofaro |
Katie Brown "I love being a professional climber, but it's hard to have a normal life," she says. "I need other dimensions to round it out." |
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. |
Adventure October 2005 |
"Life's an Adventure" Reader Photo Album Breathtaking photo of Cerro Cuerno from an altitude of 20,000 feet in Argentina. |
High on Adventure August 2000 Lee Juillerat |
Climbing Mount Rainier "Magic Light" on a Magic Mountain |
Adventure May 2006 |
Your Turn: Climbing Yosemite's Matthes Crest Traversing the knife-edge of Yosemite's Matthew Crest is like walking a tightrope, but once you reach the summit the view is phenomenal. |
The Motley Fool August 5, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Grand Canyon Education Shares Popped: What You Need to Know I can't believe my eyes. As the sky is falling, Grand Canyon Education's shares are actually climbing 13% higher today. |
Outside May 2009 Nick Heil |
Welcome to the Mutant Factory Black Diamond Equipment has prided itself on breaking all the rules. They eschew advertising, take risks, and employ a team of athletes who do their "market research" skiing and climbing in the Wasatch backcountry. So far, it's working. |
Outside June 2007 Kevin Fedarko |
That Had to Hurt Colorado River guide Michael Ghiglieri talks about his new book about the weird, wicked things that kill people in national parks. |
Outside June 2010 Matt Samet |
Beauty in the Breakdown What happens when a rock climber, gripped by the natural high of his sport, gets hooked on powerful prescription tranquilizers that help him beat back the fear and anxiety? Very nasty things. |
Outside January 2009 |
Katie Brown Gallery The new "it" girl in climbing. |
Outside August 2002 Jason Daley |
The Perils of Sheryl Shery Crow will headline the 23-city Jeep World Outside Festival, between July 10 and August 17, which includes a multisport adventure village and performances by Ziggy Marley, O.A.R., and Train. We caught up with Crow before she hit the road -- and the climbing wall. |
Outside September 2004 Aron Ralston |
Trapped Deep inside a remote canyon, a boulder shifts. In an instant, a climber's hand is pinned beneath half a ton of rock. So begins an ordinary hero's six-day ordeal of grit, pain, and courage. |
Outside July 2002 |
Trail Hound Ted E. Keizer smashed the record for climbing Colorado' 14,000-foot peaks, scuttling up and down all 55 in ten days, 20 hours, and 26 minutes. This summer he hopes to do something similar in New York's Adirondacks. |
Outside April 2006 Josh Dean |
Social Climber Is the chalk-bag crowd ready to go upscale? New York City bouldering pioneer Ivan Greene thinks so, and he wants to lead the way with his new clothing line. |