Update to this story: we finished the silent auction last night, and received many generous bids. Thank you immensely to everyone who shared this post and sent in an offer!! The final bid came in over the actual retail cost. The check is going directly to Layton, and I know he will really appreciate it. [...]

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Layton Kor’s fundraiser, from last fall through now. Without the generous contributions from all the companies who sponsored the fundraiser with gear prizes, this idea would not have gotten off the ground. So many people pitched in to get us through the logistical and technical difficulties of [...]

For those of you who have been following the Layton Kor fundraiser since the beginning, we are finally at the big moment We have raffled off big gear prizes every month, and there is another one coming in a week. We are also going to announce the winners of the climbing days with Tommy Caldwell, [...]

Spring is in the air! So the hat for this month’s drawing has to be my base jumping helmet. We had a great response for the February donations to support Layton Kor. We are at our last month of this fundraiser. Thanks so much to everyone, for donating and sustaining this support to Layton Kor [...]

We are in the final stretch of an amazing chain of raffles for the Layton Kor fundraiser, going strong since September. Thank you to everyone who has donated gear, time or money to help Layton Kor with the costs of his kidney medical expenses, a climber who is a hero to so many. There are [...]

Layton Kor has always been the most fascinating, inspirational climber I know of. As I learned to climb around the southwest, and then Yosemite and Europe, stories of his incredible pioneering climbs and spirit always arose. No one who climbed with Layton Kor ever forgot it, and the stories they told were stunning, funny and [...]

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 [...]

Hi Steph, I love your blog and all the info you put in to it, especially the videos of your climbing adventures. Well, I love the wingsuit flying and base jumping too. I commented on one of your photo’s on facebook about wingsuit flying, ie., what kind of ground speed can you achieve. I’m thinking [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]