Mark Twight recounts his 60-hour ascent of Denali's Czech Direct route with Steve House and Scott Backes.

Ted Keizer knocks off all of Colorado's mountains over 14,000 feet in less than eleven days.

Mike Pennings and Jonathan Copp pull off a trifecta near the Trango Glacier.

Several North American teams met with mixed success in the Karakoram this summer, with much of the activity focused on the Trango Glacier area.

On August 26, Rolando Garibotti soloed the Grand Traverse of the Tetons in a record 6 hours, 40 minutes.

Walter Keller explores a largely unknown region of the Karakoram and does the first ascent of a 19,000 foot peak.

Denis Urubko takes the speed climbing contest, amidst serious avalanche conditions.

Jason Campbell, Francois Legrand and Liv Sansoz won big this summer at Mt. Charleston, outside of Las Vegas.

Tommy Caldwell recalls his free ascent of Lurking Fear on Yosemite's El Cap with Beth Rodden: "We just started working away at it and were able to do it...."

On July 31, Chris Shaw and Billy Pierson, members of Gary Pfisterer's International Team, summitted K2 from the south side, becoming the first Americans since 1995.

In late May, Kevin Mahoney and Ben Gilmore completed the second ascent of the Czech Route on Denali.

Sharma does yet another hard boulder problem at the Buttermilks, Linder redpoints possible 14c at Mount Potasi and Caldwell flashes Hydrophobia in Spain.

Canadians Will Gadd and Kim Csizmazia topped an elite field of European ice climbers to take the inaugural World Cup Ice Climbing series.

On February 8, Jason Campbell became the third American to redpoint a confirmed 5.14c, when he achieved the third ascent of Necessary Evil in Arizona's Virgin River Gorge.

Top climbers from around the country, including Chris Sharma, Tommy Caldwell, Katie Brown and Jason and Tiffany Campbell recently competed in the Wasatch Open Bouldering Competition at the Wasatch Front Rock Gym.

In mid-October, Katie Brown became the first woman to flash a 5.14a sport route after climbing Hydrophobia at Mont Sant, Spain. After receiving information on how to do the crux of the route, Brown sent it on her first try.

"What I witnessed that day was truly astonishing," said photographer and climber Jorge Visser. "She had to improvise on some of my beta since I am nine inches taller and she completely blew past the key rest two-thirds up the route that makes the remainder of the climb, which is the pump crux, reasonable."

Some climbers, including one of Spain's top climbers, Daniel Andrada, say the route is 5.13d, so there is not a clear consensus on the grade of the route. Should the grade hold, not only is it Brown's first 5.14a flash, it is her first 5.14a ever.