The climbing season in Pakistan isn’t quite over yet. As we noted yesterday, there are a number of climbers still on Gasherbrum II and looking to bag the summit on that mountain. For now, the weather remains clam and clear, which is allowing access to the top, even as...

Ditching the “2” in their iconic belay device’s name, Petzl has updated this assisted-braking classic by expanding the range of ropes it can accommodate: from 8.5mm to 11mm. In other words, what was formerly the Grigri 2 is now just the Grigri (it has the 2’s smaller...

If you have tubular webbing that’s been damaged, don’t throw it away! Instead, slide it over your anchor-building cordelette as protection when wrapping trees or rough rocks. The webbing will take the beating (or tree sap), and your cordelette will stay fresh and...

A couple of years back I shared a wonderful  video of a couple that got closer to one another by learning to mountain bike together. The idea was that if they shared some adventures they would bond more tightly as well. That idea seems to have worked, because...

After the slow start for teams to even reach their base camps, the weather relented late this week and progress was made on K2, Nanga Parbat and Broad Peak K2 Mike Horn made progress on K2: Back in basecamp after a successful climb to camp 1. Could not go higher due...

Excerpted with permission from The Sharp End of Life: A Mother’s Story (Mountaineers Books, May 2019) by Dierdre Wolownick Mount Conness, Sierra Nevada, 12,590'So after Tenaya, when my friends talked about Conness, their photos and ones I’d found online showed a clean...

Navigating between bushes in Roy, New Mexico, with an old pad, I found myself stuck between branches. I could have carried a smaller pad, but then I’d have lost precious coverage. The ingenious Metolius Recon solves the carry vs. coverage dilemma with a pad that opens...