Vertical Life

Vertical Life is a climbing magazine in Australasia, available in both digital and print options. Here at Vertical Life we love climbing, be it beanied bouldering, clip-up sportclimbing, old-school daddy-tradding, big-wall suffering, alpine extremism, spandex-clad competition climbing, desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures buildering, the lot – if it involves monkey business we will cover it.

Vertical Life

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ROPE NEWS FROM FAR & WIDE • WHERE COVID-19 REGULATIONS HAVE PERMITTED, OZ CLIMBERS HAVE BEEN BUSY

BOULDERING NEWS • VL REPORTS ON VARIOUS HAPPENINGS ON THE BLOCS

SACRED SITES AT THOMPSON’S POINT • GEORGE BROADFOOT, ACANSW MEMBER AND ONE OF THE ORGANISERS FOR THE ILLAWARRA-SHOALHAVEN CLIMBING COALITION, WRITES ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES AT THOMPSON’S POINT IN NOWRA, EFFORTS TO PROTECT THEM AND ALSO RESPONDS TO CRITICISM OF CLIMBERS MADE ON NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TV (NITV)

DYURRITE/MT ARAPILES CRAG CLOSURES • VL REPORTS ON THE RECENT DISCOVERY OF A VERY SIGNIFICANT QUARRY AND OTHER CULTURAL HERITAGE SITES AT ARAPILES AND THE BLACK RANGE

VCC LEGAL CHALLENGE • VL REPORTS ON A LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST PARKS VICTORIA ON THE BEHALF OF CLIMBERS

COVID-19 & THE OLYMPICS TRIALS; WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN? • AFTER MUCH UNCERTAINTY, VL CAN HAPPILY REPORT THAT THE SELECTION TRIALS FOR NEXT YEAR’S OLYMPICS SHOULD HAPPEN, COVID-19 PERMITTING, BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR

TAIPAN & WIDER GRAMPIANS/GARIWERD BANS • VL REPORTS ON NEW CLIMBING CLOSURES AT TAIPAN WALL AND BUNDALEER, AS WELL AS PROGRESS ON CULTURAL HERITAGES ASSESSMENTS OF GARIWERD CRAGS

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THE END OF THE WORLD • SIMON BISCHOFF ON HIS TRAVELS TO FLINDERS ISLAND

WONDERLAND • WA’S MITCH WOODWARD FINDS WHAT HAS BEEN UNDER HIS NOSE ALL ALONG

WHERE THE Bloody Hell ARE YA? • SIMON MADDEN ON TRAVEL

LOSING OUR Religion • EMMA HORAN ON WHAT GYMS MEAN TO US

TIGER CAT • WE’RE PROFILING ONE AUSTRALIAN ROUTE AT THE GRADE THAT CORRESPONDS WITH THE ISSUE NUMBER (UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF GRADES). THIS ISSUE ROSS TAYLOR PROFILES TIGER CAT (33) AT ELPHINSTONE IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS.

Leanganook Learnings • PETER EYNOLDS ON FINDING BEAUTY IN THE CONVENIENCE AND BRUTAL ROCK OF LEANGANOOK/MT ALEXANDER

DEEP Blue SEA • KAMIL SUSTIAK ON SNAPPING SHOTS VS MAKING IMAGES

Ellen MEADS • VL SPEAKS TO ELLEN MEADS ABOUT RETRO-PORTRAITURE-IN ACTION AND HOW FASHION AND SAFETY NEVER TAKE A HOLIDAY

KING OF THE CASTLE (HILL) • JARRAH BRAND-ADAMS LOOKS OUT HIS WINDOW AND SPIES NEW ROCK HIDING RIGHT UNDER HIS NOSE

THE GOOD LIFE IN THE Nation's Capital • ZOE REDMOND ON CANBERRA’S COV ID-19 DR IVEN GRANITE RENAISSANCE

CLIMBING MOBILITY • NO, NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR HIPS. TEAGAN WESTENDORF ON MOVING FROM LOCKED-DOWN MELBOURNE TO NATIMUK FREEDOM

Love Letter ON LOSS • SIMON MADDEN ON LOSING THE LACTIC FACTORY

SEARCHING SA • JORDAN GRANT ON THE HUNT FOR GOOD ROCK IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

VERTICAL LIFE FILM TOUR • THE VERTICAL LIFE FILM TOUR IS AN ALL NEW CLIMBING FILM TOUR. WE OUTLINE THE FILMS AND SPEAK TO THE MAKER OF A THOUSAND WAYS TO KISS THE GROUND, HENNA TAYLOR, AND EDU MARÍN, THE SPANISH CLIMBER WHO RECENTLY CLIMBED THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ROOF IN GETU, CHINA.

FEEDING THE BEAST • AMANDA WATTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING THE RIGHT CRAG FOOD

CONTROLLING THE PIVOT • DUNCAN BROWN ON KEEPING AT IT WHEN EVERYTHING IS FALLING APART

BLACK DIAMOND MISSION LT APPROACH SHOES

NORTH FACE NORTH DOME PANTS

NEW GEAR

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