Hey Steph, How’s it going? My name’s Ruth, and I’m a Colorado native. I’ve been in love with climbing and the mountains since I could walk, and just recently, as I was flying to France, I read your book, High Infatuation. I’ve been in France for about a month now, trying to climb as much [...]

Hey Steph, thanks for always inspiring…everyone at prAna told me how amazing you are and it’s great to see you always rockin it out there. I have a climbing question for you since I am relatively new to lead climbing and heard some contradictory advice. My boyfriend and I have been debating this over and [...]

As you know, the laytonkorclimbing.com fundraiser has taken on a life of its own, thanks to everyone who keeps thinking of more ways to help. As soon as Alison Osius wrote the first article about the site in Rock and Ice (thus forcing us to make the site in time for the article to come [...]

Hi Steph: Your videos of the diamond and castleton are amazing. I just bought your book and am looking forward to reading it. Anyway, I am just learning how to crack climb and was wondering if you knew any good references on the best way to tape. I climb mostly with people who don’t tape [...]

Hi Steph My name is Sarah and I live in Christchurch, Nz. I just read your book, and I loved it, it made a lot of sense to me, esspecially where you talk about feeling safer in places outside than around a lot of people. I feel the same, Im not quite as brave as [...]

Desert Fly from steph davis on Vimeo. Hi Steph, I’m in a dramatic confusion of self-control and fear in the same time, because just by seeing you do the things you do, really makes me wanna ask myself a lot of questions of control and clean, relaxed psychic. I really do have power and motivation, [...]

Your letters really mean a lot to me! Thank you for writing to me. I am feeling the urge to start a new book project…your encouragement might be enough to push me over the edge before too long xx Steph Hi Steph, I just read your book and I found it very inspiring, I think [...]

120 from steph davis on Vimeo. Make a tiny little box with your fingertips, and look through it. This little frame creates a reality. Now pick up a camera, and look through the viewfinder. Art is created through framing–through narrowing down the vast flow of occurrence into a single, comprehensible piece. What is cut away [...]

Layton Kor Fundraiser When I first started climbing, after moving away from Maryland, I lived in Fort Collins, Colorado. Since I spent most of my time in the Colorado/Utah region, the name Layton Kor kept coming up every time I went climbing somewhere. It seemed like he had climbed EVERYTHING. I guess it seemed like [...]

Dear Steph, I was touched to see that you asked your friend to answer my question about fingerboarding. My climbing partner injured his knee and I still wanted to work out with him so I tried to come up with a workout that we can do together. I also wanted to share something with you [...]