The Fence - In the Shadow of the Mountain, cover story about risk, control, influence, blame, why people climb and how we tell their stories in life and death. Editor’s Pick on Longreads.com.

National Geographic Traveller UK: Lakes & Mountains Collection 2024 - Climbing Kilimanjaro

The Guardian - ‘The world didn’t care enough’: Ukrainian climber’s journey from Crimea to Olympic chance

The New York Times - Nicole McLaughlin’s Designs Are No Joke

The Herald - Melika Belali wrestling with responsibility amid backdrop of Iran protests

Financial Times HTSI - Free solar? Alex Honnold’s other mission

Financial Times HTSI - The 10 best climbs in Europe

 

The Independent - Mountain man: the miraculous life of Reinhold Messner, the world’s most controversial climber. AIPS Sport Media Awards Top 10 2024.

The Guardian/Observer - Meet Toby ‘the Terminator’ Roberts: the teenager set for Olympic heights

WIRED UK - Olympic climbers are learning from monkeys

The New York Times - Charting the Course of Tokyo’s Climbing Walls

UKClimbing.com - The Ukrainian Mountain Assault Brigade Fighting on the Front Lines

Geographical magazine - Everest faces the challenge of rising temperatures and more climbers

UKClimbing.com - Alexandr Zakolodniy - A Climbing Hero of Ukraine

The Guardian - Team GB’s Shauna Coxsey: ‘If just one person sees climbing and tries it, that’s a win for me’

The Times - My grandfather helped Hillary climb Everest in 1953. Now I’m trying to save it

The Guardian - Climbing at the Olympics: how to dyno and scorpion like Shauna Coxsey

Medium - An OSINT Investigation into mainstream media misinformation related to the protests in Iran

Alpinist magazine - Over the Edge and Off the Map

This story was listed as notable in the Best American essays and literary non-fiction of 2019/2020 anthology.

UKClimbing.com - The Alpine Physics School with Altitude