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 • SUMMER 2019

HIJACKED

STOCKISTS

THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE • SIMON BISCHOFF GOES TO SEA AND HOPES IT DOESN’T GO TO SHIT

OUT OF HADES • MATT RAY ON TASSIE'S RYAN SKLENICA

CAPTURING ENORMOUS BABY STEPS • KAMIL SUSTIAK SHOOTS ANGIE SCARTH-JOHNSON LEARNING FROM LEE COSSEY

LORD OF THE RINGS • STARTING WITH THIS ISSUE (NO 31) WE’RE PROFILING ONE AUSTRALIAN ROUTE AT THE CORRESPONDING GRADE (UNTIL WE RUN OUT OF GRADES). WE KICK OFF WITH ROSS TAYLOR’S BIOGRAPHY OF LORD OF THE RINGS, OZ’S FIRST GRADE 31, AT MT ARAPILES

MAYBE IT WON’T BE THAT BAD • SIMON MADDEN ON HOPE

AS GOUDA AS IT GETS • GEORGE BROADFOOT ON SOME NEW ROUTES AT CHEESEDALE, NOWRA

BETA

CLEANING UP AFTER THE BOMB’ • GEORGE BROADFOOT ON NOWRA STEWARDSHIP

AID CLIMBING • VICKY CHEN CLIMBS WITH REFUGEES

THE BUSINESS OF ROUTE-SETTING • SETTERS JUST PLONK HOLDS ON A WALL, RIGHT? EMMA HORAN DIGS BEHIND THE DRILL

BODY IMAGE • AMANDA WATTS ON HOW WE SEE OURSELVES

ALONE ON THE WALL • DENBY WELLER PICKS APART UNITY AND COMMUNITY

IN THE BALANCE • CAMPBELL HARRISON DEALS WITH A BROKEN ANKLE

CHRIS ZAIA • VL SPEAKS TO THE HEAD ROUTE-SETTER AT PULSE CLIMBING (WARNERS BAY), CHRIS ZAIA

STRONG & GOOD • DUNCAN BROWN ON STRENGTH AND HOW TO ACTUALLY USE IT

RED CHILI VOLTAGE SHOES

THE NORTH FACE FUTURELIGHT

NEW GEAR

ANDY POLLITT 1963 - 2019 • IAN BOORMAN, ANDY BOORMAN, CHARLIE CREESE & GLENN ROBBINS REMEMBER ANDY POLLITT, THE MAN WHO DEFINED ROCK STAR AND WHO PUT UP SOME OF THE HARDEST BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN ROUTES OF THE ‘80S AND ‘90S

JOHN MOORE 1949 - 2019 • CHRIS DEWHIRST REMEMBERS HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND CLIMBING PARTNER, JOHN MOORE, WHO WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ‘60S CLIMBING

JOHN WORRALL • REMEMBERING JOHN WORRALL, ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ‘60S BLUE MOUNTAINS CLIMBING

ZALIKA RIZMAL • GRAMPIANS CLIMBING SPORT CRAGS: 2013 EDITION