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Almighty Dolomites
“There’s people down here!” “Yeah, watch it, you Austrian pigs!” Jesse Mattner and I were yelling to no one—no one who could possibly hear us anyway. Rockfall rained and we cowered closer to our anchor...
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Climbing in the Verdon
Standing at the rim of the Verdon Gorge in southern France, Alan Carne rigged his rappel. He pushed two rope strands through a small metal rappel device, and clipped it to a pear-shaped carabiner on...
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Why Palestinians Can’t Climb Free
In 2019, a group of Palestinian climbers and a few international friends hiked out to a local crag near the West Bank city of Ramallah to climb, camp, and enjoy a respite from the city. In the evening,...
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Project Thirteen: Climbing 5.13 Around the World After 50
I began climbing in the mid-1980s at a small crag situated on the Erie Canal in Little Falls, New York. At the time, 5.12 onsights were mentioned in national climbing media, and 5.13s were akin to...
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El Gavilan: Nine Pitches in a Magic Desert
Author note: The below story is a piece I wrote years ago for Rock and Ice magazine, about a trip to Los Remotos, Mexico, with my friends Dan Mirsky and Boone Speed, to try to climb Jeff Jackson’s...
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