Gripped Magazine

Today is International Mountain Day, December 11. From the UN: Covering around 27 per cent of the earth’s land surface, […]

Bernadette McDonald’s Freedom Climbers was winner of the 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, and the Grand Prize at the 2011 Banff Mountain […]

Wind slabs over very weak facets are easily triggered by ice climbers, as Doug Chabot explains what is happening.

Camp 4 in Yosemite has a number of classic problems, this is one. Thriller, V9+, was first climbed in 1984 […]

This year 44 climbers died attempting 8,000 m peaks, a higher than usual number of fatalities. A series of bad […]

It is not often there is more ice climbing news from Squamish than from the Rockies, but Tim Emmett has […]

Squamish is a rock climber’s town. Sure, there are mountain bike trails, white water paddling and world-class skiing up the […]

Rocklands, South Africa, is a popular bouldering destination. Check out this full length film featuring the area. Tomorrow I Will […]

On December 1st, Young-hye Kwon made the first ascent of Black Eagle, M13, Jobi, Mount Korea. The route was attempted […]