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.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY • Vertical Life acknowledges that we live, work, recreate and climb on stolen land, and that sovereignty was never ceded.

Vertical Life

ON THE COVER

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Read • CLIMBING BEYOND: THE WORLD’S GREATEST ROCK CLIMBING ADVENTURES BY JAMES PEARSON & CAROLINE CIAVALDINI

Listen • CIRCLE UP! WITH KYRA CONDIE AND ALLISON VEST

Watch • ARC’TERYX PRESENTS: OUT ON A LIMB

INSIDE REEL ROCK 17 • VERTICAL LIFE CHATS TO ZACHARY BARR—ESSENTIALLY REEL ROCK’S EXECUTIVE PRODUCER—FOR A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT WHAT MAKES EACH OF THESE FILMS REMARKABLE.

BURNING THE FLAME

DNA

RESISTANCE CLIMBING

OPERATION DESERT STORM • REEL ROCK ATHLETE FEATURE: SEB BOUIN

WEST COAST BEST COAST • EXPLORING WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S SOUTHWEST COASTLINE

HOW I GOT THE SHOT

SCORE A BONUS STANLEY QUADVAC™ NEVERLEAK™ MUG • WHEN YOU SUBSCRIBE TO VERTICAL LIFE MAGAZINE, THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS AT STANLEY!

Will SKEA • BLUE MOUNTAINS/WHEREVER THE ADVENTURE IS

THE CRACK BEING BORED IS A GOOD THING • This was my self-created reality: a constant, uneasy sensation of jet lag. My mind had become so constantly overstimulated that I realised I had stopped dreaming, that my capacity to be creative had stalled.

50 YEARS OF PATAGONIA

Tale OF WOAH TRIBUTE

ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION

Mindset RESET

NEW GEAR

FROM THE Field • TRIED & TESTED: ARC'TERYX NUCLEI FL

GALLERY

Gado gado (Satay salad)

A ‘LOW GRIT’ FRENCH PRESS/PLUNGER RECIPE