Gripped: The Climbing Magazine

Gripped offers the international world of climbing through the highest quality journalism and incredible pictures.

Heading Into Rock Season

Volume 25, Issue 2

Lucas Uchida • Takes a New Direction After an Incredible Squamish Season

Eeyou Bouldering • Building a Climbing Community in Waskaganish

Prime Time • An Acephale 5.14c Test-Piece

Otherworld • Yosemite’s Biggest Bolted Climb

East Revy • Finding Adventure in the Columbia Valley

Riverside in Algoma • Ontario Bolted Multi-Pitch Sanctuary

Abby Dione • How Fostering Community at Her Climbing Gym Gives Her Purpose

The Atlantis Wall • Repeating a Desperate El Cap Aid Route

Garret and Ted’s Excellent Adventure • The First Ascent of a Himalayan Peak

If Icarus Had a Rope: Notes From an Ontario Trad Apprenticeship • In the 1980s, Steve De Maio joined Jeff Marshall and Brian Wallace to make some of the hardest and boldest rock climbs in the Canadian Rockies. Before that, however, he became a local legend learning his craft on the humble rock of southern Ontario, where, more than once, he just barely lived to climb another day.

Portugal • Sintra Offers World-Class Rock Climbing

The Trad Climber

The Big-Waller

The Sport Climber

The Boulderer

The Van Lifer

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Climbing in Alberta • Big Adventure Climbs Await