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Message boards & Newsgroups

  • rec.climbing.useful. Looking for advice on routes or equipment? Want to discuss your experiences? Tired of all the spams, flames and politics in Usenet's rec.climbing? If you said "Yes" to any of these questions, then this is the place for you. Trailspace's rec.climbing.useful discussion forum is a moderated newsgroup dedicated to rock and ice climbing and general alpine mountaineering. At Trailspace.com.
  • mtncommunity.org. moderated web-based discussion group.
  • relaa.com. Former rakka.net. A Finnish discussion forum concentrated on outdoor sports.
  • sfnet.harrastus.kiipeily
  • sfnet.harrastus.retkeily
  • rec.climbing
  • uk.rec.climbing
  • de.rec.alpinismus
  • rec.backcountry
  • Search Newsgroups. Google newsgroup search engine.
  • bergsteigen.com. Austrian mountaineering and climbing site. Includes route descriptions of some recommended climbs in Austria. Worth visiting.
  • Slouppi.net. A good Finnish site about bouldering and rock climbing (born as a coalition of two Finnish climbing sites 'Pulteri.net' and 'Rock Climbing in Finland'). Includes news, few articles, discussion forum and links. Propably the most valuable content, however, is a very good collection of topos.
  • UKC Climbing Forums. Climbing forums are hosted on UKClimbing. There are 15 forums covering a variety of different topics. Anyone is free to post to the threads on the various forums but we strongly recommend that everyone registers as a user, to give access to the full range of features available on the site. At UKC Climbing.
  • Vertikaali: Forum. Discussion forum of climbing club Vertikaali (Tampere). At Vertikaali.

Blogs

  • Patagonia.fi. Opened to cover 2007 Pataganonia trip of the authors. Kept alive to cover various trips by Sampsa and various buddies since then ranging. By Lauri Hämäläinen&Sampsa Jyrkynen.
  • Mursu matkaa. By Marjut Ahlström.
  • Readers' Blog [@Alpinist]. At Alpinist.
  • PsychoVertical.com. By Andy Kirkpatrick.
  • Alpine Climbing. "Because it doesn’t have to be fun to be fun…" By Ade Miller.
  • Rollo mixed. Pohjoisen talvikiipeilystä. Talvikiipeilyä pohjoiskalotin alueella. Aika paljon pakitusta, satunnaisesti myös sendausta. Teräviä esineitä, vastenmielisiä olosuhteita ja heikkoja mieliä. Kalottialueen paskimmat vitsit. Ulkoliikunta ja terveelliset elämäntavat. BD, Ettan ja punkku. Aika vähän pultteja, ei ollenkaan istumalähtöjä. Ei eliminaatteja, ehkä off-route joskus, mutta sekin aina pilkun jälkeen. By Tapio Alhonsuo.
  • Rollon kiikku ja juoma
  • Project 4811. By Ari Koistinen.
  • All Climbing. All Climbing is a blog focusing on all aspects of climbing including bouldering, gear, training, and mountaineering. I enjoy writing about my observations on climbing news, events, and personal trips I make throughout the year. By Tom Markiewicz.
  • Skagit Alpinism. By Colin Haley.
  • Cathedral Style. The New Hampshire climbing perspective from Bayard Russell Jr. By Bayard Russell Jr..
  • Malcolm Kent. This is the personal site of Malcolm Kent, all round winter climber. Encompassing everything from alpine mixed climbing and adventurous ice climbing to sport mixed climbing and competitions. And all that goes in between. By Malcolm Kent.
  • Mount Coach
  • Cold Thistle. A look into the cold world of alpine climbing. Great portion of the post seem to focus on gear for technical alpine and ice climbing. By Dane Burns.
  • Will Gadd. Words about mountain sports from Will Gadd. Climbing, paragliding, events I go to, opinion (gee, really, in a Blog?), etc. By Will Gadd.
  • Haukkari. Olet eksynyt kiipeilyaiheiselle sivustolle, jossa kiipeilyn sijasta keskitytään uhoamiseen, palan mittaamiseen ym. paskan jauhantaan. Sivustolla julkaistavat jutut ja kuvat eivät täytä minkäänlaisia journalistisia normeja, eivätkä edusta muutenkaan ns. hyvää makua. Sivuilla julkaistavat kuvat on lähtökohtaisesti ottanut Saku Korosuo, joka myös pidättää kaiken maailman oikeudet kuviinsa. Mikäli Herra on itse päässyt kuvaan, on kameran takana Anu Hankala. Muissa tapauksissa (c) mainitaan erikseen. By Saku Korosuo.
  • Alppipässi. By Juha Sillanpää, Johan, Ulpukka.
  • Dave McLeod. By Dave McLeod.
  • Raphael Slawinski's Blog. "I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where I am a physics professor specializing in Canadian Rockies' choss. I have a broad range of interests: alpinism, ice climbing, drytooling, sport climbing and bouldering." By Raphael Slawinski.
  • The Alpine Start. "The Alpine Start was conceived as a way of expanding my on-again, off-again blog, which was sometimes about climbing, and sometimes about nothing much at all. Having something more ‘official’ would also force me to actually write and update the content more often than ‘once in a while.’ This site is dedicated to the ice, alpine and mixed climber looking for information on clothing and climbing gear, route beta for selected climbs in the Canadian Rockies, as well as various tips and tidbits found on the web. As such, I welcome you to The Alpine Start. Explore, and enjoy!" By Rafal Andronowski.
  • Great Escape. Nick Bullock.. Mountaineering. Alpine Climbing. Rock, Ice & Mixed Climbing. Writing. Life-on-the-road, Opinion…. By Nick Bullock.
  • Andy Houseman. climbing, mountaineering and skiing adventures worldwide. By Andy Houseman.
  • Alpine Style. Welcome to Alpine Style. These pages are designed to share experiences, opinions and photos from the my climbing, skiing, and life adventures. I plan to add news as it happens, as well as beta, first ascents (topos, images, writing, etc…) and trip reports. It is also a way for me to keep track as what I've one, so one trip doesn't just blur into another. By Jon Walsh.
  • The Weight My Rack Blog. We’re get so stoked on gear that we started a website (called Weight My Rack) to put every piece of gear in one spot (actually, we started WeighMyRack because we were super frustrated researching gear and sick of getting suckered into buying the “on sale” gear). So WeighMyRack is for researching and comparing gear specs. The WeighMyRack BLOG is for learning and stories. We will tell the tales not heard elsewhere, ranging from manufactures to the folks that use gear daily. We’ll bring the behind the scenes stories forward, to help get one stoked on the gear you already own or the gear you could own. Really, anything gear related (we define “gear” as: the things you bring on a climb) is fair game on this blog. We want to bring the fun. By Alison Dennis & Andreas.

Expeditions

Websites & magazines

  • bergsteigen.com. Austrian mountaineering and climbing site. Includes route descriptions of some recommended climbs in Austria. Worth visiting.
  • Steepstone. Norwegian climbing site. Includes top notch guides for some Norwegian climbing areas. Good site.
  • About Climbing. Articles and excellent selected links.
  • Alpinismus.de. Portal of Bergsteiger-magazine. Good link collection with descriptions. Quite good collection of suggested tours and very good weather links (European Alps).
  • Alpinjournal. Photo gallery, route tips, news, links and interesting articles. By Michael Pröttel.
  • bergwelt.de. Portal of Olympia Verlag GmbH (Alping - das Bergsportmagazin & Berge).
  • CLIMBinfo. CLIMBinfo is a website aimed at providing information for climbers. Check it out for Weather & Ice Links, latest Climbing Reports as well as hundreds of useful Climbing Links with a searchable database.
  • Climbing Magazine. Website of American Climbing Magazine. Very good site. Besides news, includes excellent articles in Techtips section. Must see.
  • High Sport
  • Mountain Zone. Climbing, Hiking, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding and Photography. Lots of articles and Mount Everest Archive.
  • Outside Online
  • Retki. Finnish outdoor magazine.
  • Risk online. A Russian site covering outdoor activities. RISK Online provides Internet coverage of the biggest projects and expedition such as "Big Walls - Russian routes", all Himalayan expeditions, International Mountaineering Trophy, etc.
  • Rock & Ice. Website of Rock & Ice magazine. Rock & Ice is a magazine published by Big Stone Publishing focusing on rock and ice climbing. The magazine got its start in early 1984 and the first issue was in late 1985. The first publisher was Neal Kaptain, and it was bought out within the first year by George Bracksieck, who remained editor until 1997.
  • Slouppi.net. A good Finnish site about bouldering and rock climbing (born as a coalition of two Finnish climbing sites 'Pulteri.net' and 'Rock Climbing in Finland'). Includes news, few articles, discussion forum and links. Propably the most valuable content, however, is a very good collection of topos.
  • Trailwalk. Walking, Hiking - Trekking, Backpacking, Lightweight Camping, Outdoor Clothing & Equipment. Lots of gears. Also includes a discussion forum.
  • PlanetFear. PlanetFear.com is a worldwide community of people who share a passion for adventure sports. We are climbers, expedition racers, mountaineers, mountain bikers, backcountry skiers, and wilderness explorers. The search for new adventures always challenges us to seek out some of the world’s most inaccessible corners. Wild places are the essence of our being. At planetFear, we support NGO’s and other businesses who are working to conserve wilderness areas and maintain public access to them. To read about our partnerships with environmental organisations, click here. We live for blue-sky days on distant cliffs, for perfect friction, for steep limestone above deep water, for waking to cloud inversions at sunrise, for crossing the highest pass on the map, for running fast and light under a rising moon, for the whistle of our tyres down an open fire-trail, for the sight of our ski tips diving into a couloir full of fresh champagne-powder, and for our friends’ laughter at the end of the day.
  • Klettern.

    Excellent magazine about all kinds of climbing in German. Many of the stories are written in a funny style, so the magazine doubles as an excellent language course.

  • Alpinist. Alpinist Magazine is an archival-quality, quarterly publication dedicated to world alpinism and adventure climbing. The pages of Alpinist capture the art of ascent in its most powerful manifestations, presenting an articulation of climbing and its lifestyle that matches the intensity of the pursuit itself.
  • Alpin
  • Climb Magazine. British climbing magazine with load of interesting content related to various aspects of climbing. Good articles by many well known British alpinists and the home to very authoritative "Mountain Info" section. Loats of the articles as well as Mountain info are available as free downloads (but require registration).
  • Gripped. Canadian climbing magazine.

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