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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Coast Mountains Summer Photo Roundup
“We love the Coast Mountains and the people who live, work, play, and adventure here. It’s not always easy to create a sustainable life in this part of the country,…
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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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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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All-Mountain Essential: Arc’teryx Beta LT Jacket
We have yet to find a light shell that performs with more reliability than the new Arc’teryx Beta LT Jacket (available in women’s and men’s). For this high level 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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Raising Girls Who Rip
words & photos :: Allison Kennedy Davies. There’s a phrase I’ve enjoyed more and more since I became a mother: Here’s to strong women. May we know them, may we…
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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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The Solo of El Cap you Probably Haven’t Heard of
EL CAP, NO ROPE: 1999 Squamish’s Russel Mitrovich looks back at his solo ascent of North America’s most famous big wall words :: Feet Banks Big wall rock climbing is generally a…
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A Mountain Lifers Guide to the Perfect Date
Living in a mountain town has its struggles. Struggles like finding a parking spot at your favourite coffee shop (Counterpart Coffee), finding time to file taxes when the spring skiing…
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How to Not be a Dirtbag Sellout
Words:: Bradford McArthur Do you classify yourself as a dirtbag? Or perhaps you have dreams of one day attaining this most lofty goal of all full time climbers? Hate to…
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Amazing Animated Film of Climbers in Bugaboos
Uruca II – Bugaboos Editions is a climbing film from the Vancouver, BC based animator Erik Grigorovski of Brazil. Jam packed with many moments that any climber will instantly relate to,…
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Escaping the West to Find Family, Canadianisms & Burt Reynolds
Words and Photos:: Hayley Gendron “I bet none of the pro climbers could pull off the Burt Reynolds Roll!” says my dad, laughing while lying horizontally on a large…
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Where To Climb When it’s Raining in Squamish
Words:: Samantha Schonewille Photos:: Adam Gilbert If you find yourself anywhere near Squamish this time of year you may have noticed the weather has taken a turn for the worse, the…
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Boulder Denim 2.0 — Performance Jeans
Active people all around the world can’t take these jeans off. Boulder Denim has been touring North America demoing their jeans at events while innovating their proprietary technical performance denim,…
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Clipping In: How Pro Climber Leslie Timms Found Her Home on Escarpment Rock
While rock climbing all over North America for a year after college, my husband and I stretched our dollars so far that we were left eating out of a can,…
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Searching For Xwechtáal: Re-Freeing A Big Wall Classic – Squamish’s Infamous ‘Black Dyke’
words: C. August Elliott // photography: Alex Ratson. Viewed from the base of the Stawamus Chief, The Black Dyke—a basalt streak which splits the mountain’s sweep of granite greys-seems foreign,…
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