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The Achiever: Maricela Rosales
Maricela Rosales had everything against her. She became a climber anyway.
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The North Face presents: Towers Of Tigray
An old world steeped in climbing history. A new adventure as seen through a child’s eyes. Towers Of Tigray follows James Pearson and Caro Ciavaldini and their young son Arthur to the giant walls and ancient routes of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where priests and worshippers have scaled sun-scorched towers to reach their secret and sacred churches since the fourth century.
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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 route on Minaret Peak and summited nearby Alam-Kuh (15,906 feet) in 1998.
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Destinations
Forgotten First Ascents: "Nature and Technology," Greenland, 2000
This 800-meter line was first climbed by Italians Alberto Zucchetti and Paolo Paglino and Englishman Graham Austick.
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Destinations
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 (and remote) spires, Monk’s Cowl.
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Gear Reviews
Mystery Ranch Tower 47 Pack
The Mystery Ranch Tower 47 pack provides compartments for organizing all your gear. Open it up and splay it out.
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Destinations
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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Forgotten First Ascents: Koh-e-Maghrebi, Afghanistan, 2005
Spaniards Luis Miguel Soriano and David Cejudo Fernandez summited this peak in the
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