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Higher Ground: Why climbing’s popularity should be celebrated
It’s tough to pin down the moment when climbing became so … normal.
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Chris Weidner: Local athletes Duffy and Raboutou earn second trip to Olympics
Of the four American climbers competing in the combined Boulder and Lead event at the Paris Olympics next month, two of them — Colin Duffy and Brooke Raboutou — are...
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Chris Weidner: High up and down to Earth with local legend, Phil Gruber
I pull into the Project Wall parking at 7:10 a.m. and shut off my van. I sip coffee and step into the cool air; the canyon is empty and quiet,...
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Wicked Gravity: Chris Weidner: Wrapping my head around the arrival fallacy
Recently, I was listening to a podcast about weightlifting, hoping to apply what I learned to climbing training.
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Wicked Gravity: Chris Weidner: The curiously common case of self-sabotage
Climbing has a way of dragging our true selves out into the open.
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Chris Weidner: The global effort to save Cochamó — the ‘Yosemite of South America’
In a broad, glacier-carved valley stuffed with vibrant green jungle, granite walls jut vertically thousands of feet to the sky. Snow-covered peaks — some close, others distant — dot the...
Reel Thing: Media producer Jon Glassberg highlights genuine climbers, raw experience
Jon and Jess Glassberg, his wife and business partner, are overseas working 12- to 14-hour days on multiple photo and video shoots with professional climbers from Slovenia, France and Japan....
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Chris Weidner: Unbelievably lucky — When misfortune turns miraculous
Good luck often hides in the shadows of misfortune. Something bad will happen that bums us out or feels unfair. "Why did this happen to me?" we lament. Why today,...
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Chris Weidner: Seeing beyond — Deaf couple aims high for summits, higher for service
When high school sweethearts Scott Lehmann and Shayna Unger stood on top of the world on May 22, 2023, their success proved far more than just personal. Sure, Mt. Everest...
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Chris Weidner: Climbs of the century — celebrating women’s history on big walls of the 1900s
“It goes, boys!” exclaimed Lynn Hill, famously, after making the first free ascent of The Nose of El Capitan in 1993. The lean, muscular 32 year-old — all 5 feet,...