Pitch 15 On The DAWNWALL: This is what the World Cup must feel like to soccer fans. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have been glued to a variety of media outlets from The NY Times to ABC News to Instagram, following the progress of Tommy Caldwell & Kevin Jorgeson on the #DawnWall. Pitch 15 On The DAWNWALL The Dawn Wall in Yosemite. (Photo credit: Tommy Caldwell’s Facebook) Also, learn what the 7 steps …
Over the last few years, Beth Rodden, arguably one of the best climbers out there, male or female, disappeared from the pages of climbing magazines and blogs. During that time she battled a cycle of injury, surgery, and re-injury, as she attempted to make sense of the sport that debilitated, captivated, and catapulted her. In the last year, after sculpting, chipping, and remolding herself, Beth has emerged as a different kind of climber. Beth Rodden on the …
All Women Big Wall Ascents: There’s top-rope climbing, there’s sport climbing, there’s traditional climbing, and then there’s big wall climbing. For any newbies out there, big wall climbing is what it implies – climbing up a really big wall, think the 2,000-foot face of Half Dome. It involves multiple pitches of climbing, so sustained that it usually takes multiple days. (Yes, that means you’re sleeping and sh!*@ing 1000 feet up in the air). Unless you’re …
