The documentary short China Doll is a provocative exploration of gender stereotypes, romance, and rock climbing. Bear witness as Heather Weidner battles personal demons […]
Ironically, to reach the world’s highest rock climbing wall one must first descend. Those lucky/foolhardy enough to give the lofty section of wall a […]
Having free soloed Yosemite’s El Capitan, Alex Honnold has been venturing far and wide for new climbing challenges — including all the way to […]
Every once in a rare while, that which is possible in a particular sport gets redefined by one individual’s remarkable effort: think Roger Bannister’s […]
Anyone can get a membership to a climbing gym and become fairly competent at scaling the wall by putting in a few training sessions […]
In the realm of urban climbing (or buildering), there is no more tantalizing target than a skyscraper in the latter stages of construction. When […]
Late in 2017, travel vlogger Erik Conover, sleeping in his Manhattan apartment, had a vivid dream in which he was standing above the clouds […]
Looming large in the Karakoram range, Pakistan’s towering K2 is the second highest mountain in the world at 8,611 meters (28,251 ft). It is […]
There is a well-known proverb that asserts, quite reasonably, you must learn to crawl before you can walk, but Rachel and Zak Farmer’s daughter […]
While Sevnica, Slovenia has seen an uptick in tourism as the hometown of the First Lady of the United States, the country boasts another […]
They say, “All roads lead to Rome,” but for serious rock climbers, they lead to California’s El Capitan. Four to six hundred ascents are […]
There are a lot of ways to take in Hong Kong as a tourist. Gone are the iconic rickshaws, but there’s still the ferry, […]