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Most Read This Week In Climbing

Climbing is the activity of using one's hands, feet, or any other part of the body to ascend a steep object. It is done recreationally, competitively, in trades that rely on it, and in emergency rescue and military operations. It is done indoors and out, on natural and man-made structures. ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Climbing"

Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali
Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World
The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
The Moth and the Mountain
Life Lived Wild:  Adventures at the Edge of the Map
A Wild Idea
Dixon, Descending
How to Solve a Problem: The Rise (and Falls) of a Rock-Climbing Champion
The Next Everest
The World Beneath Their Feet: Mountaineering, Madness, and the Deadly Race to Summit the Himalayas
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
Winter 8000: Climbing the World’s Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season

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Ed Viesturs
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.
Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

Robert Macfarlane
Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch o ...more
Robert MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

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