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The American Alpine Club has created the Copp-Dash Inspire Award to honor Jonny Copp & Micah Dash

Writing on the Cleanest Line blog, Pete Takeda remembers his friend Jonny Copp.

One of the trends in the online climbing world that’s gaining popularity is the self-filmed expedition report. While quality photographs of alpine expeditions make for great eye candy, they struggle to capture the full scope of what it’s like to be in the mountains. Fortunately for those of us stuck sitting at a desk climbers are more and more willing to carry a camcorder (increasingly HD to boot) in order to chronicle their trip for sponsors and/or general public enjoyment.

Climber, guide, author and Climbing Magazine Senior Contributing Editor Craig Luebben died yesterday while climbing on Mount Torment in Washington’s Cascades. UPDATED.

Two moving videos about climbers Micah Dash, Jonny Copp & Wade Johnson who were recently lost in China.

It’s not often the untimely death that sometimes finds those that use the mountains as their playground hits home in the rock climbing community, but unfortunately that is exactly what has happened with the recent passing of Micah Dash, Jonny Copp and Wade Johnson.  As you have no doubt heard, the trio were likely killed [...]

The news of the possible disappearance in China of Boulder, CO based climbers Micah Dash and Jonny Copp along with filmmaker Wade Johnson has been blazing around the internet today on blogs, news sites, twitter and The Facebook.  Visit this blog for all the updates. My thoughts are with the friends and families…

Bolts on Everest?? THE HORROR!!!