Crack Climbing Tales

There it was the absolute point of no return for us, no matter what, we could only go up.

At the time in the late 1970’s, you could count on a couple of fingers all the people in the world that could lead 5.13...

“There’s only one problem with today.”  I looked at John, “Yeah?”  “Kauk is probably gonna send this thing.” Sure enough, we both fell and Ron...

One of the world’s best rock climbers, Skip did indeed float the entire pitch barefooted.

... when the sound of clanking gear alerted me to a potential fall. Peter took close to a 40 foot whipper right before the belay...