Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community.
https://www.climbing.com/people/a-climber-we-lost-tony-sartin/
Award-winning wildlife photographer says, "It's every bit as perverse as you can imagine and once again shows just how little respect these associations have for our big predators that are such a key to our province's biodiversity..."
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https://gripped.com/gripped-outdoors/money-offered-to-kill-wolves-to-save-caribou/
Ainhize Belar has become the first Spanish woman to climb 9a+, with her ascent of Ii Ameriketan (9a+), at Baltzola, Spain.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=774823
Quentin Roberts writes about one of the most badass first ascents in recent memory: His mind-bending—and Piolet-winning—trip up Jirishanca’s previously unclimbed Southeast Ridge, in 2022.
https://www.climbing.com/places/first-ascent-jirishanca-peru-southeast-ridge/
For GP81, the city's only remaining independent climbing gym, surviving in expensive Brooklyn has meant leaning on its community.
https://www.climbing.com/places/gp81-nyc-independent-gym/