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

ON THE COVER

A Million EXCUSES AND A TANKARD OF RUM. • Reflections on my first year at the helm.

Read this • BOOK REVIEW: CLIMBING FREE - MY LIFE IN THE VERTICAL WORLD

Watch this

Listen to this • MUM’S GONE CLIMBING PODCAST

MOTHER EARTH • COMMON CLIMBER’S DAVE BARNES CHRONICLES JACQUES BEAUDOIN’S EPIC PROJECT AS IT BECOMES ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S HARDEST NATURAL LINES.

THE NOWRA APPRENTICESHIP EMBRACING THE STEEP

VERTICAL LIFE FILM TOUR 3

THE LOCALS

HOW I GOT THE SHOT BEHIND THE CAMERA

Swena ZHENG

TAKE NOTHING FOR YOUR JOURNEY

WHAT MAKES A Climber

MONT Adventure Equipment

Tale OF WHOA TUMBLING OUT OF CONTROL

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BUILDING grit DERYL NG • SPORT CLIMBING VICTORIA’S NEW HEAD COACH

SPOTLIGHT: 2022 IFSC PARACLIMBING WORLD CUP

GALLERY

ASK THE PRO’S: CRAG BAG EDITION • WELCOME TO ‘ASK THE PROS’, A DECIDEDLY INFORMAL AND ENTERTAINING LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF AUSTRALIA’S TOP CLIMBERS.

NEW GEAR

BETA & BREW • The ’Almost Espresso’ Aeropress Recipe

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