Chris Van Leuven June 24, 2022
“As a professional climber,” says DiGiulian, “I needed to find an easy way to get greens and vital nutrients into my body”
Chris Van Leuven February 11, 2022
“Probably the best eight-pitch crack collection in the Valley,” says SuperTopo: Yosemite Valley Free Climbs. Summit Post calls it “the most enjoyable multi-pitch 5.11 in the Valley.”
Chris Van Leuven January 28, 2022
He climbed Freerider in just over 18 hours and now has his sights on other big wall free routes in Yosemite
Chris Van Leuven December 4, 2021
This past March in Montana, Manoah Ainuu, Nate Kenny, Conrad Anker, Whitney Stowe, and Matt Cornell established The Rave, a 180-metre line in the Winter Dance area. Only Cornell sent the overhanging cobble-climb.
Chris Van Leuven June 11, 2021
Brandon Adams and Roger Putnam climbed the aid route Iron Hawk in 15:37, taking 15 hours off the record set by Ammon McNeely and Cedar Wright in 2004
Chris Van Leuven June 10, 2021
Take a journey up the never-ending 5.12a/b Crimson Cringe in Max Buschini’s new film
Chris Van Leuven May 7, 2021
“Despite the low-key face that’s being put on this ‘pilot,’ this is a huge deal for Valley climbers”
Chris Van Leuven April 27, 2021
“I’m inspired to try the hardest things I can do”
Chris Van Leuven March 9, 2021
I saw a picture of Half Dome in my barber shop and I was like, ‘Where is that?’ I knew I needed to climb it.
Chris Van Leuven February 9, 2021
Roam online academy provides insight and tips by the best — including Conrad Anker and Jimmy Chin — on climbing, skiing, photography, and more.