Storie di arrampicata

As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.

Lessons from a close one in Alaska.

Fifty years ago, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost and Doug Robinson set down an ethic for climbing that emphasized restraint and respect for the rock. In 2022, it’s needed more than ever.

Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick was always a great deal more.

Cydney Knapp and her husband, Bartek, knew they wanted to raise their kids to love the outdoors, so they learned how to navigate change and embraced the chaos.

Behind the film They/Them.

Discovering that climbing is for them.

Finding the intersection of identity, stewardship and rock climbing.

Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.

On designing our women’s climbing pants.

Reflecting on risk and partnership in Pakistan.

Recreation in the Alabama Hills is surging at an unsustainable pace. But some people are working to ensure that it doesn’t get loved to death.

Remembering the climber and conservationist.

6,000 words about dressing for alpine climbing you didn’t know you needed to know.

Back to the Wind River Range.

Reflecting on a lifetime of climbing, and the risks and rewards that come with it.

Eric Bissell captured his first published image with Patagonia on a climbing trip to establish a new route on Mount Ololokwe.

A climber remembers her first experience with the
unexpected on Thalay Sagar.

Eliza Earle, Austin Siadak, Drew Smith on the 2019 fall climbing season in Yosemite.

Alex Megos tells the story of his Bibliographie.

A climber interviews five women on a climbing trip to Bishop and Las Vegas.

Last November, Fitz Caldwell (age 6) finished his first multipitch climb, Sunnyside Bench in Yosemite National Park. He did it with his dad, Tommy.

A Sierra trip with good light and only one case of altitude sickness.

Rolando Garibotti looks back at a lifetime spent in Patagonia and forward to the generation following in his footsteps.

Tommy Caldwell's first trip to Patagonia

Colin Haley on the experience of soloing the Supercanaleta

Kate Rutherford Remembers the North Pillar of Fitz Roy

For this climber, good food is activism.

When Vince Anderson took a break from alpine climbing, his mountaineering attitude manifested itself in a single-speed hardtail, on which he’s won some of the sport’s most grueling races.

How a father and son found a way to climb one of Utah's most sought-after ice routes in a bygone era.

Sometimes when I look at the Fitz Roy Range, I see a silhouetted jawline of mountainous teeth that gnash the sky. Other times, the teeth transform to fingers that don’t crush aspirations but cradle them, like a hand cupping something precious. The distinction really depends on whether I’m looking at the mountains from the relative…

I wake early to the dazzling heat of the African sun. Perched 400 meters high on a huge granite face in central Madagascar, all I can see is black and blue, the color of the Malagasy granite meeting the sky and, coincidentally, the same color as large areas of my body from the constant abuse…