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

WHAT MAKES A Climber?

BOOK REVIEW: VALLEY OF GIANTS

THE APPROACH

JAM CRACK CLIMBING PODCAST WITH TAYLOR PARSONS

A LAUNCHPAD FOR AUSTRALIAN ALPINISTS • Welcome to our new Local Lore column, where we drop a pin on the climbing map and ask locals to give us the beta. From local climbing legends, must-do-routes, and historical deep dives - we’re letting our favourite locals loose on these pages to tell us how we should be spending our time in their backyards.

Light • EMERGING CLIMBING PHOTOGRAPHER ROY WANG TAKES US THROUGH HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH LIGHT AS HE COMBINES HIS PROFESSION WITH HIS PASSION FOR CLIMBING.

THE QUEST FOR Contrast • FIRST ASCENT OF CUERNO ESTE DEL PAINE

Transitions

Cirrus Tan ON COMPETITION AND COMMUNITY • CIRRUS TAN, NEW ZEALAND'S ONLY FULL-TIME CLIMBING COACH GIVES US INSIGHT INTO HER PHILOSOPHY AS A CLIMBER, COMPETITOR AND COMMUNITY BUILDER.

Campbell HARRISON • HE/HIM/THEY

BEN COSSEY ON HIS JACKET • INSPIRED BY SOME OF OUR FAVORITE ATHLETES SHARING THEIR #MORETHANAJACKET MOMENTS ON THEIR SOCIALS LATELY - WE SAT DOWN WITH AUSTRALIAN CLIMBING ROYALTY, CRAG COMEDIAN, AND OCCASIONAL ANVIL-LIFTER-EXTRAODINAIRE, BEN COSSEY, TO HEAR ABOUT HIS FIRST-EVER ADVENTURE PARTNER…

FREE GIFT • with every Vertical Life subscription thanks to our friends at Mountain Designs

Tale OF WHOA • NO FUTURE

IT’S ALL Up FROM HERE! • DAVE BARNES TALKS TO IAN ELLIOT ABOUT TICKING HIS HARDEST CLIMBS AT AGE 70.

GALLERY

NEW GEAR

Emergency Japanese Curry

BETA & BREW • The Lazy Aeropress Recipe