This year’s Global Climbing Day theme struck a chord with us here at VL HQ. In our previous editor’s note, we discussed what it meant to be a climber, and we offered up a different way to reflect on our shared identity. Not long after releasing the mag, our pals at The North Face gave us the inside scoop that this would also be the theme of this year’s Global Climbing Day. The synergies between the days’ focus and our editor’s note made us wonder whether we’re actually psychics, or if someone leaked our draft to the USA North Face HQ.
From the artistic flair of our hominin ancestors to the bolshie antics of 18thcentury explorers - Coz digs into how we got here to help us dig deeper into who we are as climbers.
If you’re looking for succinct and poetic reflections on what it means to be a climber in 2022, a treasure trove of book excerpts, essays and poems written by the global greats is just a Google search away. Over on social media, Facebook pages dedicated to professional athletes serve up daily doses of curated aspirational content,
