Bruce Hildenbrand

Up to 100 climbing areas in the U.S. are closed each year for raptor nesting. Here's why climbers should leave the baby birds alone—and what happens if we don't.

The story of California’s City Rock

Nearly 60 years after its first ascent—and 45 since its inclusion in “Fifty Classic Climbs of North America—the Hummingbird Ridge remains as fearsome as ever.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

As good as Roper was at writing and editing, he was also one heck of a climber whose résumé during the Golden Age of Yosemite put him amongst the best of his generation.

Jerry Gallwas made history when he climbed the Northwest Face of Half Dome with Royal Robbins and Mike Sherrick in 1957. Then the army, raising a family, and a 150-foot fall changed his priorities.

Memories of youth, temptation and trying to out climb the long arm of the law.

When the two Italians Claudio Corti and Stefano Longhi started up the Eiger no climber had been rescued alive from the North Face. What unfolded was one of the most Herculean and heroic rescue efforts of all time.

In 1954, two Italian climbers were celebrated for their first ascent of K2. But behind their ascent was something worse than betrayal.

Knowing the difference between good and bad bolts can save your life.

And #50 was the most special of all: his hardest climb to date, and a first ascent to boot.

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