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Five Minutes (or more): Pete Takeda - 2009-03-09 by J. Young

Five Minutes (or more): Pete Takeda J. Young and Pete Takeda discuss An Eye at the Top of the World.
Average Rating = 3.17/5 Votes: 6 | Comments: 4 | Views: 2508

The Access Fund: Foresight and Follow-Through - 2009-01-09 by J. Young

The Access Fund: Foresight and Follow-Through "We’re ten people and there are literally thousands of climbing areas at play..."
Average Rating = 4.57/5 Votes: 7 | Comments: 2 | Views: 1179

An Auspicious Infancy: The Earliest Days of the Access Fund - 2008-12-22 by J. Young

An Auspicious Infancy: The Earliest Days of the Access Fund First of two interviews with past and present leaders of the Access Fund.
Average Rating = 4.80/5 Votes: 10 | Comments: 14 | Views: 1278

Kaymoor Mine: a Photo Essay - 2005-11-25 by j_ung

A photographic journey through the New River Gorge's past.
Average Rating = 0.00/5 Votes: 0 | Comment: 1 | Views: 4274

Rowell's Revenge - 2005-09-28 by Tim Shea

The true story of a dish best served cold. When a young man meets a Climbing Legend and it all goes bad, the Legend gets his revenge.
Average Rating = 4.67/5 Votes: 3 | Comments: 3 | Views: 3250

Landscape Artist Attempts to Climb Matterhorn - 2004-12-22 by Paul Chrastina

Landscape Artist Attempts to Climb Matterhorn Retelling of the Whymper Matterhorn epic. First published in OLD NEWS, March, 1996. Vol. 7, No. 6.
Average Rating = 4.75/5 Votes: 4 | Comments: 5 | Views: 6153

It's a Man's World...NOT!!! - 2004-11-07 by polarwid

Some of my observations and opinions of WOMEN and climbing in the past 20 years, from an old, washed up MAN who learned a thing or two on the way!
Average Rating = 4.50/5 Votes: 4 | Comments: 2 | Views: 5563

A Brief Explanation of the ALASKA GRADE SYSTEM - 2004-11-04 by polarwid

A link to the Alaska Range pages in Alaska so that I can describe the difficulty of the mountain routes easily in the Routes Database. Note: The Alaska Grade System description below is excerpted from Jonathan Waterman's [i]High Alaska[/i].
Average Rating = 4.00/5 Vote: 1 | Comments: 0 | Views: 4729

Where are our Superstars? - 2004-02-01 by michael

The past 100 years has seen some amazing people push the limits of climbing further than anyone ever would imagine. But what has happened lately? Where are our superstars?
Average Rating = 5.00/5 Votes: 2 | Comments: 2 | Views: 4944

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