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Inside Beta
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest’s Deadliest Day
By Jennifer Hull | 09.17.2020
Accident Prevention
Freak Accident in Wind Rivers: Rockfall Severs Anchor Slings
By Michael Levy | 09.16.2020
Inside Beta
Rookie Mistakes: Seven Things Beginner Climbers Get Wrong
By Francis Sanzaro | 09.27.2020
Features
Features
Angels of Light | Ascent
In winter 1977 a Lockheed Lodestar with over two tons of high-grade marijuana in its hold crashed in Lower Merced Pass Lake in Tuolumne. Alerted by a friendly park ranger,
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The Scottish Crack House (Better Than Indian Creek!)
Tom Randall said it: this place is better than Indian Creek! The Wide Boyz head to Edinburgh and meet Robbie Phillips to sample some of the finest roof crack climbing around on a crag that’s never wet.
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Training
Injury-Free Bouldering: 15 Tips to Keep You Healthy and Strong
Bouldering is a high-risk activity. Performing well while avoiding injury is both an art and a science. It’s not just about warming up, but getting your tactics right and developing
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Training
Coming Back From Injury
Ping! You tried that problem 12 times; tweaked your finger, pulled a pulley. You rest for a month and it’s starting to feel better, but now what? What are the
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Training
10 Tips For Taming Performance Anxiety in Climbing
Mind over matters: 10 Tips For Taming Peformance Anxiety in Climbing
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Gear Reviews
Kailas Route Setter Tool Belt
Miryam Nissan is a route setter at Movement Baker, and she put the Kailas route setter tool belt—appropriately called the Tool Bag—through the paces.
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Destinations
Forgotten First Ascents: South Face, (Exum) Minaret Peak, Iran, 1998
Hooman Apri, Abbas Jafari, Jean Weiss and Al Read put up a new
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Forgotten First Ascents: "Nature and Technology," Greenland, 2000
This 800-meter line was first climbed by Italians Alberto Zucchetti and Paolo Paglino
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Forgotten First Ascents: "Not So Auto," Monk's Cowl, South Africa, 2003
This 400-meter 5.12b tracks a line up one of South Africa’s most iconic
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