This just in: Geologists are warning that, unless current habits change,
the world is in danger of running out of rocks in a remarkably short
time. "Think about it," scientist Henry Kaiser told the
Onion
newspaper. "When was the last time you even saw a boulder?"
Click here
to read more about this alarming hypoth ...
A beautiful, inspirational look at one of the greats, Japan's Yuji
Hirayama, climbing in Turkey. From the
Camp 4 Collective
, a new colla ...
Zermatt, Switzerland, one of the birthplaces of Alpinism,
promotes...well, who knows what it's promoting with this
advertisement, spotted at the Furi lift stati ...
I've just returned from a couple of weeks of skiing in the French and
Swiss Alps, where we stuck to well-traveled tracks and merely ogled the
improbable traces of bold skiers arcing down seemingly every plunging
gully and cliffy face. The stuff that gets skied routinely in these
mountains is mind-blowing. And so it was fun to discover Colin Haley's
helmet-cam video of a "typical" day of skiing this month off
the Aiguille du Midi above C ...
Think you'd be safe on a chairlift if an avalanche swept underneath?
Go to about 0:25 to jump-start the action.
I've just been editing a story for the American Alpine Journal
about the first ascent of the north face of Chang Himal in Nepal, by
British climber Andy Houseman. Andy said his climb, with fellow Brit
Nick Bullock, was inspired in part by an article called
"Unclimbed," published in 2003 in Alpinist 4
, in which various writers identified nine great unfulfilled
challenges in the alpine world. Which, in turn, inspired me t ...
Don't miss Dave Turner's wild stories and photos of kite skiing on the
Patagonia Ice Cap. Absolutely crazy! Click on the link in the Black
Diamond Journal sidebar to the right.
The movie is Core, by Chuck Fryberger. The world premiere is April 7
at the Boulder Theater.
Sorry for the technical difficulties with the Marko Prezelj slide show
(below). I was climbing at Shelf Road (T-shirts, sunburn, sharp
rock...the usual excellence), so it took me a couple of days to fix the
problem. I believe I've got it sussed; if not, I'm sure you'll let me know!
Marko Prezelj
, the fantastically accomplished Slovenian alpinist, is also a gifted
photographer. In the four years that I've been working on the
American Alpine Journal
, he's already had one photo on the cover and is likely to have
another this year. Recently, he sent me some beautiful photos from a
trip to Norway for an international ice climbing meet in Fjellkysten.
"I was climbing there with ...
At last, soon there will be no need to ever go outside, or even to a
sweaty, dust-filled climbing gym, to experience "the thrill and
adrenaline of free solo ...
