Chris Weidner

“It is, hands down, the hardest face in the Canadian Rockies,” wrote esteemed alpinist Barry Blanchard in the 2002 American Alpine Journal. “Five thousand feet of sheer, black, and north-facing...

Huffing and puffing, we stagger up the glacier in darkness. The metallic crunch of crampons in frozen snow cuts through the early morning stillness. Our group of a dozen climbers...

Our first impression of Tehran was overwhelming. From the hillside beneath the Alborz Mountains we looked upon a sea of mostly white buildings — a metropolis home to more than...

That teenage boy could not have imagined that one day he would climb the highest mountain on Earth — not once, but 18 times.

Having lived in rainy Seattle during my formative years as a climber, I ended up climbing indoors a lot. I even worked in a climbing gym for several years, setting...

OK, I’ll admit it: after 38 years of climbing I’m still, fundamentally, afraid of heights. Which is why, in January, I signed up for a mental training course for climbers.

“Imagine if the north face of Castleton Tower was more than four times bigger. You’d think, that’s so sick!” Alex Honnold’s enthusiasm was palpable as he compared Utah’s most famous...

I learned early to listen to that inner voice, which turned out to be far more powerful than I could have known — powerful enough, in fact, to save my...

Bouldering is particularly winter-friendly because, by definition, the climbs are short, so there’s no time to “numb out.”

For Sunny Stroeer it all began on Aconcagua (22,841 feet), the tallest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. In 2014 she squeezed a two-week expedition to Argentina between 65-plus-hour weeks working...