Happy New Year! Thanks to all of you for donating to help Layton Kor in November and December. Through the help of Big City Mountaineers, our good friends and new nonprofit partner, we were able to get Layton’s site and fundraiser back up and running in November. The community support from everyone is helping Layton [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped with this fundraiser so far, to support Layton Kor with his medical expenses. We are rolling now with the monthly gear giveaways, which will happen on the first of every month, as long as we have all this gear to give away! Today I printed out [...]

Thank you so much, to everyone who has donated so far to help Layton Kor with his medical burden! You have all helped so much, and on November 1, we will give away the first thank-you gear bundle. Everyone who has donated and requested to be in the guide day giveaway hat will be included [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

People sometimes ask me what climber inspires me, and who I look up to. When I first started climbing, I was totally inspired by the legendary climber, Layton Kor. Layton made cutting edge ascents in the Utah desert, the Diamond, Yosemite, the Black Canyon, and the Alps. He loved all the places I love, and [...]