I held the rope nervously as a man twice my age with four times my courage ascended the runout face climb. John Bachar moved with a delicate...

Rock climbing is inherently dangerous. Every guidebook, every piece of climbing gear, and signs posted at every major climbing area proclai...

"So you want to go bouldering?" I shivered. The sun still hadn't hit Yosemite's Birdalveil parking lot. Sweeney smoked a c...

"Where I come from men do not just take musical instruments off the wall and play them." The grey haired woman shifted in her bar...

I sat on a plank of rock high on the right side of Yosemite's El Capitan, letting my heels dangle and kick the granite wall. My climbin...

I have a question for you. I do not want you to tell me the truth. I want you to tell me what you think I want to hear. Here is the questi...

In the winter of 2004, I escaped my duties as a student and headed down to Joshua Tree National Park, the long time haunt of many of my frie...