Arc’teryx Academy: Best Weekend of the Summer
Words :: Jimmy Martinello. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend more than 35 summers here in the Sea to Sky Corridor and I can wholeheartedly say one of my favourite…
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Active climbing industry news and articles, written by industry professionals.
Finding Common Ground
Is climate breakdown causing increased rockfall on B.C.'s Stawamus Chief?
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ML Coast Mountains Summer ’22 Issue Out Now
Let the good times roll with the summer 2022 issue of ML Coast Mountains.
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Friday Flick: Elevated
As the new short film Elevated shows, Sonya Wilson has worked to create a community for other deaf climbers, leaving inhibitions and unreasonable expectations behind.
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Friday Flick: Journey to 100
Jason Hardrath has spent his entire life in motion: whether that was on sports teams as a young boy, as a triathlete through his early adulthood, or in the mountains, through today.
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Full Circle: First All-Black Team Attempts to Summit Everest
As of today, an all-Black team has never summited Everest. But right now, Full Circle Everest—a group of 11 Black climbers—is working to change that.
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Paddle, Climb, Surf, Shred: Winter in Ontario
Winter in Ontario through the lens of Mountain Life photographers.
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Movin’ On Up: Filipino-Canadians Build Community in the Rockies
K8 Mountaineering Club of Alberta is now a non-profit organization and second home to many Filipino-Canadian mountaineers. The club organizes hikes, scrambles and climbing (sport, alpine and ice) for its 40 members and goes beyond that to provide camaraderie, kinship, and community.
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Risking It All: Are the Mountains Worth Dying For?
Will Gadd, one of the Rockies' best-known adventurers, riffs on life and death in the mountains.
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Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
By Rick Ridgeway. Excerpt published with the permission of Patagonia Books. In Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map (Patagonia, Oct. 26), the mountaineering legend looks back on 50…
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The Summer of Heights: Baffin Island Backyard Adventures
words :: Sarah McNair-Landry // photography :: Erik Boomer & Sarah McNair-Landry. “A re you sure you want to be left here for a month?” My friend Jeremy asks one…
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The Changing Landscape of Search and Rescue
A shifting culture or purely a numbers game? As the old song goes: “When the shit goes dooooowwwn, ya better be ready.” And if you’re not, British Columbia’s Search and…
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Friday Flick: ILLUMINATE
“If I was going through all of this for the shot, I knew it had to be right” – Josh McGarel ILLUMINATE is a short documentary film by Ian Coll…
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Des grimpeuses au sommet / Women Climbers Soaring to New Heights
Les doigts ensanglantés d’Émilie sondaient le granite. Le vent fouettait sa corde. Son souffle était court. Perchée une centaine de mètres au-dessus de la Baie Éternité, la grimpeuse se répétait…
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Ice Flow: Making Connections on Frozen Waterfalls
Words & photos :: Kristin Schnelten. Jim Faulkner summited the Matterhorn in Switzerland, Chimborazo in Ecuador, Gran Paradiso in Italy. A 13,323-foot mountain here, 20,548-foot there. Some he conquered back-to-back—two…
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Crack Addicts Love the Glove
Squamish-Based company kickstarts the ultimate alpine big-wall, crack-climbing glove, the G7 HAND JAM Nathan Kukathas knows a good idea when he sees one. The Squamish-based climber, designer and co-founder of…
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Quebec’s Women Climbers Soaring to New Heights
Émilie’s blistered fingers probed the granite wall. The wind whipped her rope around. Her pulse was racing. Perched a hundred metres above Baie Éternité, she kept telling herself that she…
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Ontario Sport-Route Sufferfest
Two climbers tackle all the major Beaver Valley sport routes in a single day, self-supported and car-free. words & photos :: Will Tam. On a Saturday in July last year,…
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Comin’ Up: Annabelle McDonald Is On Her Way
Fifteen-year-old Squamish phenom on climbing, camping, and Cuba words :: Feet Banks The stamps in Annabelle McDonald’s passport read like a rock climber’s bucket list. She learned in Australia and…
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