100-year businesses don’t exist. The retail industry is dead. In the rugged White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, neither of those statements are true. North America’s oldest ski shop, Lahout’s, has remained open 365 days a year since 1920. While e-commerce and...

Nicholas Carroll, 27, sent Titan 5.14a at Lion’s Head this week for his first of the grade. The test-piece limestone sport route took the Guelph climber about two and a half months to redpoint. “I was living in Lion’s Head for all of August and only seriously...

Election day is right around the corner. While some us may view climbing as an escape from politics and all of the other stressors of daily life, the truth is that politics have a huge impact on our sport. Government policies affect what climbing areas remain open,...

Niall Hamill and Patrick Maguire climbed a new 130-metre M4 WI6 on Storm Creek Headwall on Oct. 28. The Headwall is one of the most popular early season ice climbing areas in the Rockies. Visit here for a topo by Jon Walsh. Raphael Slawinski and Hamill made the first...

In spring 2017, the body of a man was found in a burned out vehicle on the Cheekye Forest Service Rd in Squamish. Climbers in Western Canada knew him as Jesse James and he kept a blog called Whippers and Tears. Jesse James has now been identified as U.S. resident...

A ceremony took place in the Bow Valley on Sept. 29 that revealed the replacement name of a mountain north of Canmore. For over 100 years, the peak has been referred to using a racial slur, but Bald Eagle Peak, a traditional name that was used generations ago, will be...

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We Americans sometimes like to think that we invented rock climbing and the important ethics of the sport. Older climbers will remember the “Great Debate” in 1986 at the American Alpine Club, concerning the acceptance of rappel bolting, hang-dogging, and chipping of...

Watch Daniel Woods battle against Giuliano Cameroni's crimp masterpiece, Blade Runner (V15), located in Upper Chaos Canyon, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. A V10 intro directly leads into a brutal three move V13. The crux involves taking a miserable left hand,...

Is it time to start replacing your worn out gear after a long summer of hucking yourself at your project or chasing alpine days? Or are you new to climbing, looking to get outfitted with all the essentials for your first outdoor climbing trip this autumn? Right now...