Over a 31-day period from September 3 to October 4, 2025, Spanish ultrarunner and mountaineer Kilian Jornet, age 37 at the time, completed a gargantuan running, cycling, and climbing project that he dubbed “States of Elevation.” Jornet traveled ac...
Peak 5,710’, a sandstone butte rising from the floor of Knowles Canyon, in the Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness west of Grand Junction, has been a long-standing challenge for a few Colorado climbers, partly due to its location in a remote, beautiful...
With various partners, Tal Wanish developed the first route up the north face of Baby Helen’s Dome in the Sheeprock massif, starting in April and concluding in late October with a team-free ascent, on which both Steve DeWitt (leading) and Wanish f...
Jesse Huey mixed climbing—as in a mix of ice tools and rock shoes—on D7 (6 pitches plus approach and exit climbing, 5.11c in summer) on the Diamond wall of Longs Peak. Photo: Jon Glassberg The Diamond on the northeast face of Longs Peak is on...
Mosquito Pass Wall, with the arrow marking the start of Unikkiga Akłunaaq. Photo by Kara Beer Unikkiga Akłunaaq (260m, 5.8) is the first known rock route to ascend the Mosquito Pass Wall (64.920139, -165.489944) in the Kigluaik Mountains, abo...
Tim Stephens leading across a rock tower on the south ridge of the Tusk. Photo by Ryan Hokanson The Tusk (6,825’, 61.01692, -145.54298) is a prominent rock spire approximately ten miles southeast of Thompson Pass in the central Chugach Mount...
The Raven-Wolf Route on the east ridge of the Trickster. Photo by Zach Clanton During the summer of 2024 in Haines, Alaska, three separate people told me I needed to climb with Zach Clanton. Zach reminds me of a modern-day Indiana Jones. He ...
Rafael Alfaro on the east face of South Mile High Peak during the first ascent of Blood and Sand. Photo by Wyatt Jobe On February 11, 2025, Rafael Alfaro and I completed the probable first ascent of a line on the east face of South Mile High ...
Whooooosh. A stream of spindrift pours onto my face and wakes me up. I attempt to pull more of the two-person bivy sack over my face to block the elements. Snuggled beside me, David Hechl (Austria) and Vincent Landry (Canada) don’t seem fazed. Wit...
On April 25–27, 2025, Tad McCrea, Anna Pfaff, and I completed a long-dreamed-of new route on the south face of Mt. Providence (11,200’, 62.896379, -151.052324) in the Alaska Range. Journey Through the Castle of Providence (1,000m, WI4 M5 5.10 and ...
Leo Nordman, Hazel Probst, Simeon Ramirez, and I arrived in Petersburg on May 5 with the main objective of climbing Kates Needle (10,106’). We were met with unseasonably rainy weather, which scuttled our plan to be helicoptered onto the Patterson ...
On September 2, 2024, Devin Wilson and I flew into the gravel strip below the north ridge of Mt. Hayes at the junction of the two main branches of the Hayes Glacier. Benjamin Lieber on the summit of Peak A-112. Behind, the ridge runs southwest...
The west face of Little Podju as seen from Big Ramp. Photo by Joda Hankins On June 20, Travis Powell and I took an afternoon helicopter bump from Hunter Creek, where we both live, to a basin at 3,500 feet on the west side of a mountain that M...
Balin Miller’s gear was nowhere to be found—or so he claimed. The route line of No Guides Allowed on Relaxation Spire. Photo by Ethan Berkeland Fresh off his solo ascent of the Slovak Direct on Denali and a short crabbing season off the Sewa...
I sat upright in our tent with my back pressed against the wall. Cody Winckler, lying on his back, braced the other side with his legs, our world a dark maelstrom of flapping fabric and constant roaring. We’d spent the last two days shuttling load...
On February 8, 2025, Alex Burkhart, Matt Callahan, and I set out to climb the Second Mendenhall Tower (a.k.a. Midget, 58.53415, -134.49092) in winter. Starting at 1:30 p.m. at the trailhead, we planned to climb through the night to reduce the risk...
After months of heavy snowfall in the Cathedral Spires, the storms exhausted themselves and it was our turn. On June 10, Paul Roderick delivered Vincent Lapointe and me to the Shadows Glacier with high stoke and higher atmospheric pressure. Th...
Eli Sturm on the summit ridge of the Batwing (Peak 9,020'). Photo: Robes Parrish Detailed trip planning is usually antecedent to a successful trip into the mountains. But sometimes life conspires to steal that time and you just have to make d...
The line of Children of the Sun (14 pitches, VI 5.13-) on the northeast face of the Monolith. Photo: Maximilian Barlerin As the crow flies, the Monolith sits just a few miles south of the busy Cirque of the Towers. Despite its proximity, the ...
Wilson Cutbirth leading pitch five of The Living Stone on the northeast face of Mt. Hooker. It took three trips deep into the Wind River Range to establish and free the ten-pitch route. Photo: Leo Houlding Jonny Schaffer and I have both spent...