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ArticleEdit­or­ial The Climbs, They Are A Chan­gin’

There’s an urgency in the moun­tains these days, one that seasoned alpin­ists feel in the chan­ging weather win­dows, in the hol­low thud of tools strik­ing thin­ner couloir ice, and in the rattle of once-solid blocks mov­ing under­foot. From the great...

ArticleHer­son’s FA of World’s Hard­est Trad Route

In Sum­mer 2025, Con­nor Her­son vis­ited Squam­ish for the third sum­mer sea­son in a row. His trips to the Cana­dian town in 2023 and 2024 were legendary but his latest likely takes the cake. After more than 20 ses­sions, across two sea­sons, he made...

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Long before “scram­bling” became a buzzword stretched to fit everything from steep hikes to rope­less rock climbs, Alan Kane was bush­whack­ing above Golden, B.C., chas­ing sum­mits wherever the log­ging roads ended. More than five dec­ades and some...

ArticleThree Women Rock­ies 11,000ers

In 1979, Alber­tan Don Forest became the first per­son to climb the 54 Cana­dian Rock­ies peaks higher than 11,000 feet (3,353 metres). Mod­ern meas­ure­ments added more, so the cur­rent num­ber is 56. Many of them involve ser­i­ous haz­ards,...