Professor Martin Siegert from Imperial College London has just become one of the three new co-chairs of the Diversity in UK Polar Science Initiative Steering committee. In this guest blog, … The post Anti-racism must be at the heart of climate action appeared first on...

2021 looks as though it’s shaping up to be the year where life slowly gets back to normal. Depending on where you call home, it may be time to start dusting off the old travel gear and plan your next break, whether that be local or abroad. If you like to travel old...

The X Couloir is a feature on Mount Wymper in the Canadian Rockies that has been skied a handful of times. The line is accessed via the Chickadee Valley and can be done in a morning session. The mountain is found on Highway 93 South between Banff and Radium, which...

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Canadians have been travelling to Yosemite since the 1960s in search of hard aid and free routes, but also to learn about the sport of big wall climbing. It was the best place to cut your teeth 20 pitches above the ground on solid rock. Many Canadian climbers learned...

Here in Colorado, we’ve been told that spring is coming—or at least the calendar seems to say so, despite the heavy, wet snow that keeps dropping from the sky and covering up the rocks. Between storms, we’ve been busy testing some of the fall 2020 and spring 2021 gear...

Wade Morris and Stefan Griebel were determined to set the speed record for the Diamond on Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Sitting between 13,000 and 14,000 feet, the wall is no small objective for any climber but to complete a car to car in under...

Rock climbing cultivates emotional intelligence. When we climb, we must have confidence in ourselves and in our partners, trusting that our toes will stick to the miniscule foothold and that our belayer won’t drop us when we fall. Escalando Fronteras (EF) uses these...

When choosing the optimal climbing pack, nothing matters more than your own personal preferences and the type of objectives you plan to tackle with said pack. If the approach to your sport project is twenty feet and you want to carry your quickdraws in a paper bag, go...