ABOVE: Elber Castellanos (IG: @monocastellanosguide) is on "La Guerra de las Mil Brocas" (5.11b) in El Cocuy, Colombia (Photo Credit: Gustavo Acosta, IG: @gustavoacostal)
Featured Photographer - Gustavo Acosta
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Gustavo Acosta is a climbing photographer and videographer from Colombia, a country of magical mountains and rocks to climb.
Gustavo lives in Suesca, the place where climbing began in Colombia and where traditional climbing is mostly practiced. See incredible shots of climbing in Suesca, other Colombian crags, and beyond in Peru. |
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Stories
Connor Herson - Clark Kent or Superman?
By Dave Barnes Californian climber Connor Herson is like the Clark Kent of climbing. He has an innocent charm and is an academic nerd but come the weekend, he leaves his PC and Stanford textbooks on the desk, puts on his cape, and whizzes off to some crag housing routes of kryptonite and dispatches them with what seems effortless aplomb. Who is this kid and what motivates this modern marvel to make comic the hardest cracks and big walls North America has to offer? |
Colors of the Climb
By Stefani Dawn The striking colors of sandstone not only catch our eyes from a distance and mesmerize us up close, those colors tell climbers of the rock’s true nature. I can look at the hue of the rock and (mostly) know what climbing it holds. |
Donegal Sea Stacks
By Iain Miller The author of The Donegal Sea Stack Guidebook, Iain Miller, shares the unique magic - and challenges - of climbing sea stacks along the Ireland Coast. |
Last of the Summer Wine
By Tony McKenny Sometimes you just don’t know that you have reached the end – the last time you see a friend or change a nappy or hold your small child’s hand – but I think both Tom and I knew that this would be our last major climb together. Nothing was said, we just sensed that the times they were a-changing. |
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Book Reviews
The Art of Climbing
Simon Carter has come to be one of the foremost climbing photographers throughout the world. In this day and age that is a serious accomplishment, every climber with a phone takes happy snaps of their vertical adventures. To rise above that static through progressive generations of climbers, to keep images fresh and enlightening, to capture the leaders in our game doing incredible feats in amazing locations, well that takes discipline. Few of us have that. Simon Carter does and his new book, The Art of Climbing captures a lifetime of his work. |
Climbing Wild: A History of Rock Climbing in Tasmania
Delving into its pages, it feels like you are resting by a campfire, the author with a brew, the fire glistening off of his eyes, sharing what seems a malt-whisky-breath of wisdom for the future. |