OPENING NEW LINES

A Himalayan expedition becomes a quiet reckoning with grief, family, and inheritance.

HBO framed a Yosemite rivalry. Honnold remembers something more complicated.

A revived print magazine bets on paper, patience, and the human stories behind the climbs.

Inside HBO’s four-part portrait of risk, ego, mysticism, and self-destruction.

A Spanish coach uses climbing to explore fear, identity, and self-knowledge.

A crack-climbing standout opens up about pressure, ambition, and finally showing the cracks.

In La Raison du Sport, the philosopher argues that effort reveals the self.

Climbing’s old-school and modern styles clash less than they complete each other.

What keeps climbers coming back isn’t just pleasure—it’s the power of almost.

In Paris, the French Spider-Man fights to control what the world remembers.

Before the towers, he risked everything on France’s hardest rock routes.

A grief-haunted journey through Switzerland, with the Alps always out of reach.

After losing 45% of his blood, Alain Robert fights his way back to elite climbing.

A troubled childhood, precocious daring: episode 2 of our series on the life of Spider-Man.

Aster Verrier archives in gestures the memory of a mountain that is disappearing before our eyes.