Climbing Quote of the Week: Ed Webster
In 1988, American alpinist Ed Webster teamed up with Robert Anderson, Paul Teare, and Stephen Venables to climb a new route up Mount Everest’s massive 12,000-foot-high Kangshung or East Face....
Win Pitches with the Pros Sweepstakes!
Do you wanna go climbing with some great climbers like Steph Davis, Will Mayo, Dean Lords, Dean Potter, and Sean Jones? Well now you can if you’re both lucky and...
Climbing Quote of the Week: Walter Bonatti
There is a good case that alpinist Walter Bonatti, born in Bergamo, Italy in 1930, was the greatest mountaineer of the 20th century. He called his climbing philosophy "the pursuit...
Bouldering Colorado Guidebook: Much Ado About Nothing?
A couple weeks ago at the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City, Globe Pequot Press and Falcon Guides received a few advance copies of their forthcoming guidebook Bouldering...
Another Alps Tragedy: 8 Dead on Mont Blanc
An already deadly summer in the European Alps turned even more tragic with the deaths of eight more climbers on 15,780-foot-high Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest mountain, early last Sunday morning....
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