Hi Steph, I am a novice crack climber since moving to a city close to Joshua Tree. While living in Utah I never really got into crack climbing despite being only a couple hours from IC. I have found your posts on crack climbing to be the best on the web. However, I am hungry [...]

My dad just turned 70, and I am headed to Salt Lake City tomorrow, where my awesome brother and his wife live. My parents are coming too, and we are going to have a 70th birthday celebration party for my dad as well. My grandparents are all dead now, and one memory I have of [...]

I got two emails today that made me feel so proud and amazed by my friends, that I can’t resist sharing them. And they made me reflect on pioneers in the sports I most love, climbing and wingsuit flying. Being a climber with a strong sense of history, I can see that wingsuit flight is [...]

Steph I have just finished reading your book, “High Infatuation”. I am not in the habit of writing to the authors of books I read (in fact, I think I’ve only done it once before), but I felt strongly moved to do so now. I suppose I can best describe why by saying I feel [...]

Steph, Awesome website – the pictures are killer! I just got into climbing a couple months ago and you’re a huge inspiration for me. Couple questions: How do you go about planning a free solo climb? Like, how many times would you do it with rope first? What is going through your mind when you [...]

Hey Steph, I am an aspiring climber and enjoy reading your blog as it is informative and inspiring. You also share and discuss many of my other interests (dogs, vegan cooking, traveling, etc.) so it’s always enjoyable to read what you and other people are thinking/doing! I have a question for you in regards to [...]

Ms. Davis, I am a Border Patrol Agent stationed in Lordsburg New Mexico. I do a lot of mountain climbing out here and would like a recommendation on a good boot with excellent ankle support. It is very rugged out here with many loose rocks and the Danners that are supplied to us do not [...]

Hi Steph, I’m an italian alpinist that read a “ small piece of your life “ on Alp issue. It’s really, really true that “ Divina Commedia “ in Italian language is very beautiful… Congratulations… Salut Max Ciao Max, I do believe the Inferno was one of the first mountaineering books (and so I used [...]

Thanks to Big City Mountaineers, who has stepped in to be a nonprofit partner, laytonkorclimbing.com can now accept online donations again. Layton Kor, perhaps the most legendary climber of his generation, is awaiting a kidney transplant and needs help with the burden of medical expense. A group of climbers and companies has banded together to [...]

The fundraiser to help Layton Kor with his kidney replacement exceeded our expectations, thanks to our amazing community, in its first two months. But we hit a serious crux in November with the online donations system. Paypal did not like this fundraiser being run by two random climbers (Stewart and me) instead of an Official, [...]