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New Film Valley Uprising Depicts a Colorful Slice of Yosemite Climbing History
Yosemite explodes at the seams with rich climbing lore. The towering granite walls of Half Dome and El Capitan attract rock monkeys like moths to flame, and any cragsman worth his sauce knows that...
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Climber Dean Potter on Valley Uprising, the Art of No Rules
Dean Potter flying in a wing suit in the Swiss Alps with the Eiger in the background; Photograph courtesy Andy Maser See all our Valley Uprising coverage. Sixty years of fascinating Yosemite climbing...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Welcome to the Jungle – Dispatch #1
Follow our National Geographic-The North Face team on a seven-week expedition in Myanmar (Burma) to attempt to determine the tallest peak in Southeast Asia. The adventure will take them overland by...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Solving the Mystery – Dispatch #2
Follow our National Geographic-The North Face team on a seven-week expedition in Myanmar (Burma) to attempt to determine the tallest peak in Southeast Asia. The adventure will take them overland by...
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Myanmar Climb: Leeches and Spiders and Flies, Oh My – Dispatch #3
Follow our National Geographic-The North Face team on a seven-week expedition in Myanmar (Burma) to attempt to determine the tallest peak in Southeast Asia. The adventure will take them overland by...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Death and Disaster – Dispatch #4
Photo @coryrichards The rugged topography of northern Myanmar has yielded a month of crushing overland travel just to arrive at basecamp. Over 30 porters have aided us in the approach to Hkakabo Razi....
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Base Camp, Finally – Dispatch #5
I wasn’t sure if it was relief to get through the jungle, or rather a new sense of intimidation and fear to see the convoluted ridge route leading up to the summit of Hkakabo Razi. The last two days...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: The Climb Begins – Dispatch #6
Yesterday morning, the team awoke pre-dawn to gather Juniper and assemble a small Puja ceremony. A few hours later, they embarked – crossing up and over the ridge behind these prayer flags and on to...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Life at Base Camp – Dispatch #7
Basecamp Dispatches #3: The team is sending and slept last night at Camp II. It started dumping snow today but they are climbing along the west ridge, and spirits are high. Here in BC, I tried to...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Finding Our Way – Dispatch #8
Photo by @renan_ozturk @camp4collective // #onassignment for the #MyanmarClimb. In the morning we set out to climb from Camp II to Camp III, an exploration into the unknown more than we expected. We...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Mutiny on the Mountain – Dispatch #9
Another one from #MyanmarClimb. Me approaching the ridge to high camp. Thanks @hilareeoneill for the photo. Still decompressing and recovering but on our way down and warmer thicker air feels good!...
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Myanmar Climb: Brotherhood of the Rope – Dispatch #10
Photographer Cory Richards (left) and climber Renan Ozturk, with Mark Jenkins far above them in the shadow, head for the summit ridge of Myanmar’s Hkakabo Razi. Photograph by Emily Harrington Read all...
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Climber Dean Potter on Valley Uprising, the Art of No Rules
Dean Potter flying in a wing suit in the Swiss Alps with the Eiger in the background; Photograph courtesy Andy Maser See all our Valley Uprising coverage. Sixty years of fascinating Yosemite climbing...
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Mutiny on the Mountain – Dispatch #9
EDITOR’S NOTE: To read Hilaree O’Neill’s first-person account of the same period of time described below, read the November 11 entry on The North Face’s expedition blog. Another one from #MyanmarClimb....
View ArticleMyanmar Climb: Live to Fight Another Day – Dispatch #11
Full moon reflections from 11.7. The clouds swirled and danced around the glowing rock in the sky, but never fully revealed it. #MyanmarClimb @camp4collective @thenorthface @natgeo A photo posted by...
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Opinion: Rethinking Risk
Steph Davis free solos Jah Man on the Sister Superior Tower in Castle Valley, Moab, Utah. The connected tag line is to her BASE jumping rig hauled up to the summit for her BASE-jumping descent....
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Climbing Beyond Cartels
How rock climbing is saving youth from gangs and drug cartels in Mexico Imagine as a kid never having been told that he or she could become something in life. Then add extreme poverty, domestic abuse,...
View ArticleYosemite Climbers Attempt Historic First Free Ascent of El Capitan’s Dawn Wall
Oh snap. The hardest pitch got sent by both of us tonight. I might be in a little shock right now. The route is taking a toll on our fingertips as we are now both climbing with taped up fingertips,...
View ArticleVideo: Yosemite Climber Tommy Caldwell on the History of the Dawn Wall
As we eagerly watch and wait to see what happens on the upper reaches of El Capitan as Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson work through their attempt to make the first free ascent of the Dawn Wall,...
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For a Climber on El Cap, a Dropped iPhone is Particularly Painful
Climber Tommy Caldwell shares his experience on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall route from high above Yosemite Valley with regular posts to social media sites via his iPhone—which he later dropped 1,500 feet;...
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