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HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Christie Aschwanden	Joaquin Espinosa's Rock Climbing Adventures A scientists explains his attraction to rock climbing.
Outside May 2009 Dougald MacDonald	Yosemite Roulette Climbing El Capitan without rope, gear, or safety net.
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 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 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 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 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.
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 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.
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 November 2002 Shermakaye Bass	False Summit A famed Texas climbing route gets cloned indoors.
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 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 September 2002	Rising Star Boulderer Lisa Rands claims more than 50 female first ascents and regularly climbs problems rated V9 and V10 (bouldering routes are rated V0-V15). In March 2001, she nailed Plain High Drifter, in the eastern Sierra, becoming the first American woman to pull a V11.
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 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 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."
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 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 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 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.
AskMen.com	Tyler Hilton This young songwriter and musician released his debut album, The Tracks Of, in September 2004, and is proving he's no one-trick pony, with roles on the WB's One Tree Hill and in the Johnny Cash biographical film, Walk the Line.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
U.S. CPSC April 18, 2006	CCH Inc. Recalls Mountain Climbing Camming Anchor Due to Fall Hazard The cables that support climbers using these devices can fail, causing climbers to fall.
Fast Company May 2004 Danielle Sacks	60 Seconds With Erik Weihenmayer Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind climber to scale Mt. Everest. Now he's helping corporations see things in a different light.
Outside February 2007	Conrad Anker & Jenni Lowe A new documentary details the history of the foundation of the Khumbu Climbing School.
U.S. CPSC January 27, 2004	BBK Enterprises Recall of Tree Climbers The steel back brace on the tree climber can weaken and fail, posing a serious injury hazard to the user.
Outside January 2006 Justin Nyberg	Ice Breaker Ines Papert not only won the women's division at Colorado's ice climbing festival last year, but beat the winner of the men's division by nearly three minutes.
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.