Fires are part of life. We use fire to cook food, a major step our evolution as a species. Yet fire turns on us. Wildfires that interface with human development are especially dangerous. The fires Lahiana are on record to be the most devastating, I terms of life lost, in the United States. The intensity and speed at which this fire devastated the traditional seat of the Hawai’i kingdom has changed the landscape in a most unfortunate way. If you read this, chances are you appreciate the natural world. When nature, fueled by by human activity, strikes back we are left wondering. We ask about the how& why, the randomness, and for some of us how we can help. If you are so inclined please consider a donation. https://www.gofundme.com/f/global-climbing-fund-for-maui-fire-victims
Fires are part of life. We use fire to cook food, a major step our evolution as a species. Yet fire turns on us. Wildfires that interface with human development are especially dangerous. The fires Lahiana are on record to be the most devastating, I terms of life lost, in the United States. The intensity and speed at which this fire devastated the traditional seat of the Hawai’i kingdom has changed the landscape in a most unfortunate way. If you read this, chances are you appreciate the natural world. When nature, fueled by by human activity, strikes back we are left wondering. We ask about the how& why, the randomness, and for some of us how we can help. If you are so inclined please consider a donation. https://www.gofundme.com/f/global-climbing-fund-for-maui-fire-victims
Happy Birthday @sam_loweanker & @rickridgeway Both Rick and Sam share this special day. Photo from 2005 when @jenniloweanker and I hauled the kids out for a “character building” 5 k. The big incentive was the free snacks afterwards. @isaacloweanker with a muffin, Sam questioning the purpose and @max.lowe easing into the teen angst. Art work by Sam for Max’s birthday!
Happy Birthday @sam_loweanker & @rickridgeway Both Rick and Sam share this special day. Photo from 2005 when @jenniloweanker and I hauled the kids out for a “character building” 5 k. The big incentive was the free snacks afterwards. @isaacloweanker with a muffin, Sam questioning the purpose and @max.lowe easing into the teen angst. Art work by Sam for Max’s birthday!
Happy Birthday @pemba_sharwa ! It’s wonderful to know you and your family. Your grandfather Karma (last slide with your sister and mother) climbed with Hillary on Makalu , you father Lakpha (second slide with your mother Nawang) climbed Everest in the 80s and 90s. Nawang brought the heart you are. Your 7 summits of Chomolungma are the springboard for your interest in cameras and film. As an athlete with @Himali your passion brings people to our sport of climbing. It’s great to explore and climb together. @khumbuclimbingcenter #nepal
Happy Birthday @pemba_sharwa ! It’s wonderful to know you and your family. Your grandfather Karma (last slide with your sister and mother) climbed with Hillary on Makalu , you father Lakpha (second slide with your mother Nawang) climbed Everest in the 80s and 90s. Nawang brought the heart you are. Your 7 summits of Chomolungma are the springboard for your interest in cameras and film. As an athlete with @Himali your passion brings people to our sport of climbing. It’s great to explore and climb together. @khumbuclimbingcenter #nepal
Happy Birthday @pemba_sharwa ! It’s wonderful to know you and your family. Your grandfather Karma (last slide with your sister and mother) climbed with Hillary on Makalu , you father Lakpha (second slide with your mother Nawang) climbed Everest in the 80s and 90s. Nawang brought the heart you are. Your 7 summits of Chomolungma are the springboard for your interest in cameras and film. As an athlete with @Himali your passion brings people to our sport of climbing. It’s great to explore and climb together. @khumbuclimbingcenter #nepal
Happy Birthday @pemba_sharwa ! It’s wonderful to know you and your family. Your grandfather Karma (last slide with your sister and mother) climbed with Hillary on Makalu , you father Lakpha (second slide with your mother Nawang) climbed Everest in the 80s and 90s. Nawang brought the heart you are. Your 7 summits of Chomolungma are the springboard for your interest in cameras and film. As an athlete with @Himali your passion brings people to our sport of climbing. It’s great to explore and climb together. @khumbuclimbingcenter #nepal
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
As climbers we are storytellers. It’s part of the experience, from dreaming to planning to sending to remembering. Each aspect is as important as the other. When climbing found me in the 70s it was through word of mouth and the venerated magazines. The written word, coupled with images of faraway places were the first step in dreaming up an adventure. Magazines and books printed on paper hold a special place in how I understand and appreciate the arcane pastime of struggling with gravity on nature’s anomalies. @theclimbingzine brought to us by @lukemehall_writer brings us back to the future with the expertly crafted and edited ClimbingZine. Between the zine and the book there is the rainbow of climbing experiences. @stacyabare with “Climbing Past War” chronicles the good we have from gettin’ humbled by gravity. @semi_rad keeps humor in our lexicon while @beccaskinner shares the generational weave of family in climbing. So here’s our ask – from Luke and myself: spruce up your living and work area with fine climbing literature that isn’t algorithmically delivered through this thing in your hands. Subscribe to @theclimbingzine for the insight into climbing that offers us motivation, acceptance and healing. Heck – for the price of a pizza you’ll have a connection to climbing that is, like the final cinch on you figure 8, super real.
Welcome @allisonvest to @thenorthface. Finding what one is meant to do in life is a gift. Sharing it with others is a blessing. May you share the gift of nature through your art. The art of bouldering and the art of painting.
Happy Birthday @phil_henderson! Wishing you and yours the very best on this special occasion. Thanks for decades of advocacy and adventure. You my friend, Dai.
Happy Birthday @phil_henderson! Wishing you and yours the very best on this special occasion. Thanks for decades of advocacy and adventure. You my friend, Dai.
Climbing is my life. When I plugged into gravity as my sport adversary, I knew I had found my place. All sports have some sort of adversary to make it challenge. These mostly end up being other people, rules, time, balls and judges. Climbing on the other hand is really simple. It’s innate. It probably one of the earliest ways we were able entertain ourselves. Climbing is based on a struggle with gravity. Be it on a snowy mountain in a far away range or at your local climbing gym, you challenge yourself. This challenge brings strength, flexibility, endurance, and balance. The learning of the route provides mental acuity and the process of belaying builds friendship, the foundation of community. Five years ago @thenorthface launched Global Climbing Day as a way to share more of this goodness with people that might not have seen themselves as climbers. We are all climbers and we welcome all to this quirky and somewhat frivolous pastime. This Saturday 19 August join your friends, new and old, for a day climbing. With participating gyms around the world, chances are you’ll find a place to pull down, send and flash. If not – get out and experience that conversation with gravity. @crushing_benjamin shares his vision and motivation in a neat film created by @sav.cummins. @thenorthface_climb @spireclimbing @memphisroxclimbing #globalclimbingday #wallsaremeantforclimbing
