Hi Steph, given your level of experience and ability I presume you’ve had some injuries in your climbing career. Just wondering if you’ve had any rotator cuff problems and if so, what advice you could give to fixing them (I know patience is probably the best advice but I already know!). I have tendonitis of [...]

Hi Steph! First, I love your blog–you’re awesome! I admire you as both an athlete and a vegan. I’ve been climbing [indoor] since January (I live in Louisiana and there are no rocks anywhere) and I have been vegan since March. I found your blog searching for other vegan climbers… Unfortunately, courtesy of an overly [...]

Steph, Thanks for posting all the wonderful information on your website and being an inspiration to all women climbers. I am a former climber and found that when I was actively climbing that I was in one of the happiest places in my life. I started and prefer outdoors, partly because I am in a [...]

Dear Steph, I’m just a “normal” man, and a beginner climber…no extreme adventures, no free solo. Just rope climbing 6a max grade with friends on some crap rocks in middle Italy. I discovered climbing too late, I was 31 yo and I was trying to portraits whit my reflex a couples of friends on the [...]

Hey Steph. Three weeks ago I was riding my bike home from school and my left foot slipped off the pedal, which continued to rotate around and came down behind my achilles tendon and partially severed it (about 50% of it is still intact, so no surgery!). This caused me to front flip over the [...]

Hey Steph, My name is Lacy, I live in Bellingham, WA but I lived in SLC for a few years which is when I fell in love with the desert. I have never paid much attention to professional climbers, or skiiers, or runners…but I have ran into you a couple times in the creek and [...]

Hi Steph, Although I’m shooting you an email in hopes of getting some sound advice about injury, i do just have to say that you are pretty incredible in terms of both climbing and the lifestyle you’ve created for yourself; you’re really inspirational and i look up to as a climbing hero. (I know you [...]

Hey Steph, My name is Jordon, I live in a small town in Texas where there are no mountains so, naturally, I didnt start rock climbing until the age of 18 at “Stone Moves Gym.” Ive been climbing a year now and Im absolutely in love with it; I sleep eat and climb now! I [...]

Hi Steph, How are you? Before anything, let me say that I admire your ability and am perhaps your craziest fan. I watch your videos almost every day … Especially the one where you solo the Diamond. Much the same mass! I always watch the THE SHARP END. I sit with my wife and I [...]

I got a new ACL 5 and a half months ago. I was pretty intimidated about the surgery and recovery time, because most things I read about it made it sound like the end of life as we know it….well, it wasn’t! Actually, it was a great winter Having been without the ACL for 2 [...]