Climbing

Magazine articles on rock climbing and mountain climbing.

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Outside November 2002 Shermakaye Bass	False Summit A famed Texas climbing route gets cloned indoors.
Outside November 2002 Mark Jenkins	Unbroken Chain Every mountain adventurer knows those magical moments when it all flows -- and those wretched times when it won't
Outside October 2002 Brad Wetzler	Reinhold Don't Care What You Think A quarter-century after he changed everything by summiting Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, Reinhold Messner is looking fit, feeling adventurous, and acting about as mellow as a snapping turtle. Great men aren't always sweethearts -- and Messner is still the best there ever was.
Outside September 2002	Rising Star Boulderer Lisa Rands claims more than 50 female first ascents and regularly climbs problems rated V9 and V10 (bouldering routes are rated V0-V15). In March 2001, she nailed Plain High Drifter, in the eastern Sierra, becoming the first American woman to pull a V11.
IDB America July 2002 Claudia Neira	Faith that moves mountains Jaime Vinals feels an irrepressible attraction for heights. So much so that he is the only Central American to have scaled the seven highest summits in the world, including Mount Everest, which he succeeded in doing on May 23, 2001.
Outside July 2002	Trail Hound Ted E. Keizer smashed the record for climbing Colorado' 14,000-foot peaks, scuttling up and down all 55 in ten days, 20 hours, and 26 minutes. This summer he hopes to do something similar in New York's Adirondacks.
High on Adventure June 2002 Camilla Hvalsoe	Summit Day -- Mount Kilimanjaro Scaling Africa's highest peak...
Outside June 2002 Peter Maass	Climbing Lessons from the School of Tomaz Humar At the moment, Humar is the greatest high-altitude climber of the world. His power is in surviving in very difficult situations on huge walls. What he has done is special...
Outside May 2002 Mark Kroese	Queen of the Mountain In her new autobiography, Lynn Hill, the worlds's most accomplished female rock climber, looks back on three decades of big climbs, big falls, and bigger egos...
Outside March 2002	Across the Great Rift The Loita Hills are home to one of East Africa's last great swaths of wilderness. To a young Masai who gave up his birthright for the hustle and blare of Nairobi, a journey to the pure heart of Masailand offers a vision of what he left behind— -- and a glimpse of his people's fearful future...
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