Diamond Dogs

by Chris Kalous June 4, 2009

Are you ready to tackle the East Face of Longs Peak? Our rock-hound runs down all the ins and out of how to climb the most sought-after face on the Front Range whether it’s your first time or you’re a vet looking for a new challenge.

Underwriting Adventure

by Majka Burhardt June 4, 2009

Want health insurance to protect yourself on your next climbing expedition? Think about applying for Polish citizenship. Two weeks from today, I head to Namibia. In fact, by the time you read this, I will likely be in Namibia doing something for which I’m not insured. Technically, because I live in the USA. I’m going [...]

Brothers, Keepers

by Timmy ONeil June 4, 2009

When a climber decides to take his disabled brother up Yosemite’s big walls, he gets a first-hand look at his sibling’s grit and learns a lesson about impermanence. What compels a big-wall climber to leave the relative safety of the ground to live for days on the side of a rock wall enduring a regimen [...]

Mountaineer Kim Havell

by Rachel Odell Walker June 3, 2009

Climbing North America’s highest peak has long been considered a man’s game. This Telluride-based climber plans on changing that perception by leading a team of four women to the coveted summit. This June, Kim Havell, Karen Kingsley, Sonja Nelson and Kim Grant, four Telluride, Colorado-based women will attempt to join ranks of the few all-women [...]

K2 for a Price

by Elevate June 2, 2009

This summer, Boulder-based climber Fabrizio Zangrilli will lead the first commercially guided expedition up K2 (8,611 m). Some critics have disparaged the trip as the first step in transforming K2 into the “new Everest,” commodifying one of the most deadly mountains in the world, but Zangrilli sees it as the beginning of a new, better [...]

New Highs

by Jayme Moye April 6, 2009

The AMGA claims the first U.S. mountain guide program to gain international endorsement.