Essay: On Belay or On Fleek
The history of climbing in America has been a circuitous one. Popularized decades ago, by rebels...
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Essay: The Mountain Emotion
Each of us knows the feeling. You’ve climbed long and hard. Perhaps you’ve stood on an icy lip and...
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Essay: More than a Number — The Necessity of Letting Go of Grades
So you want to get into rock climbing … You head on over to your local gym, fill out the...
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Essay: Climbing Tribe — On Introducing Your Children to Climbing
“Hey, daddy … Where does the climbing stuff go on my harness?” Wyatt’s curious little...
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Essay: The Dharma of Dirtbag — Five Principles of Rock Climbing & Buddhism
Picture your most recent big climb: you are high on a mountaintop, the wind blowing in your face,...
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Essay: Love on the Rocks — Weighing the Risks and Rewards for Climber Couples
A month ago, in October of 2017, the deaths of Hayden Kennedy and Inge Perkins stopped the...
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Why I Climb — Subtlety, Meditation, and the Regrettable Elusiveness of Levitation
Monday. I stroll into my morning lessons with my fingers well and truly shredded from a Sunday...
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Why I Climb — Picking Apart the Age-Old Question
The perennial question, Why do you climb mountains? has been answered in a variety of ways....
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Essay: The Highs and Lows of Climbing as a Parent
It’s been just over a year since my daughter became mobile and I can count the number of times...
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Essay: At the Intersection of “Gym Rats” and “True Climbers”
So … you’re a gym rat? I found myself ear hustling the couple next to me. I fabricated their story...
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Essay: Postscript Climbers — the “Weenies” of Climbing
I’ve been climbing in West Virginia for seven years, and up until last weekend, I could never talk...
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Essay: To Suffer Well — An Ode to Grit
It’s as if someone has turned the water spigot on full blast at the top of the crack in which my...
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