Adam ONDRA IFSC Semi

IFSC Climbing Worldcup (2019)

The IFSC Climbing Worldcup riveted hundreds of people this weekend, as the world's best competitive climbers fought for a spot in finals. The sixth, and final Bouldering World Cup brought...
Broken Leg While Bouldering

The Tale of the Broken Leg

This week my roommate, Blake, broke his leg. He was at the top of a bouldering wall that he had fallen from hundreds of times before. His hands clutched...
Dirtbagging from my Car

Preparing to Be Houseless Again

There’s an echo in the house. Fur balls bounce through the halls like tumbleweeds, swollen and forgotten. The wind sweeps across the floor, unencumbered by furniture and trinkets as...
Texas Land of the Wind

Texas: The Land of the Wind.

The wind blows and blows and blows, like an air river, rushing through the sky. If you sit in it for long enough, it will start to chip away...
Tommy Crack Climbing

Getting My Butt Handed to Me on a Moderate Crack Climb

There’s a route in North Carolina that’s a moderate climb. But it kicks my ass every time I attempt to climb it. It’s my anti-style  -- an overhanging crack...
Looking Glass Rock Climbing

Using Imperfections to Ascend to the Top

The universal climbing rule is to start at the base of a climb and go up. How you choose to move, or what you’re capable of doing with your...
Using fear while climbing

Meditations on Fear: Why do we use fear as a motivator?

I recently interviewed a young man who just set a Guinness World Record for completing the highest amount of elevation gain ever recorded in a month (about 400,000 feet...

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I’ve had to navigate a lot of doubts to get to where I am today. For a long time, I thought that nobody wanted...