Climbing

Magazine articles on rock climbing and mountain climbing.

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Outside June 2008 Claire Napier Galofaro	Chris Sharma Chris Sharma is one of the world's strongest technical climbers but has lately favored travel over competition.
Outside June 2008 Justin Nyberg	How to Build a Bomber Anchor To set up your own anchor for a climbing top rope (or slackline, or car stuck in a ditch), all you need is a 20-foot piece of webbing, a carabiner, and a tree.
Outside May 2008 Dave Sheldon	Sport Climbing If you want the best gear for summer cragging, you need this setup.
Outside February 2008 Dave Hahn	Aces High Make one of the world's greatest Everest guides face his fear of heights by sending him 3,000 feet up El Capitan with Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Ivo Ninov. The result will be panic attacks, cold sweats, and one order of Depends.
Outside February 2008 Dougald MacDonald	Tomaz Humar After being accused of milking a rescue for media attention, Tomaz Humar scaled to the summit of Annapurna solo without a media feed.
Outside February 2008 Brad Wetzler	The Madness Continues The newest book about Everest's ever-increasing chaos is High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed by Michael Kodas.
Outside January 2008 Alan Prendergast	Dropped When Pete Absolon, the Rocky Mountain director of NOLS, set out for a climb in Wyoming's Wind River Range last summer, life couldn't have been better. A deadly mistake by another man ended it all in an instant, and started a nightmare that's never going to stop.
Outside January 2008	Rock Climbing: Cedar Wright & Renan Ozturk American climbers Cedar Wright and Renan Ozturk combined two ambitious expeditions on two continents into a novel summerlong quest they dubbed Alaskastan '07.
Outside November 2007 Christian DeBenedetti	Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Hale, Hearty, Tough-As-Nails, Acclimatized-At-Birth Mountain People... The skyscrapers of Manhattan may not reach as high as Everest, but this is where Tsering Norbu Sherpa, a member of mountaineering's most famous clan, is making a new life.
Outside August 2007 Megan Michelson	High Points Get a lift with the best new peak-bagging gear.
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