Scree

A place for updates about the print magazine and other miscellany. The name "Scree" is a callback to the original Summit's back-of-the-book section, a hodge-podge of letters to the editor, cartoons, poems, and other bits and bobs.

Scree

On Practicing the Art with Jeff Jackson

On Practicing the Art with Jeff Jackson

Jeff "Jefe" Jackson is prolific: he has published over 500 articles, essays, poems, short stories, and screenplays and developed 1,000+ routes in his life. Through it all, he's maintained the fact...

On Practicing the Art with Jeff Jackson

Jeff "Jefe" Jackson is prolific: he has published over 500 articles, essays, poems, short stories, and screenplays and developed 1,000+ routes in his life. Through it all, he's maintained the fact...

The Art of Freedom With Bernadette McDonald

The Art of Freedom With Bernadette McDonald

Award-winning author Bernadette McDonald shares the unlikely journey that led her from the prairie flatlands to high-altitude mountaineering, including encounters with legendary Eastern European climbers and why their stories deserve...

The Art of Freedom With Bernadette McDonald

Award-winning author Bernadette McDonald shares the unlikely journey that led her from the prairie flatlands to high-altitude mountaineering, including encounters with legendary Eastern European climbers and why their stories deserve...

A Desert Rite of Passage: An Excerpt from Turn to Stone

A Desert Rite of Passage: An Excerpt from Turn ...

In Turn to Stone, Emily Meg Weinstein escapes her past and finds community, courage, and herself among climbers and van-dwellers in the American West.

A Desert Rite of Passage: An Excerpt from Turn ...

In Turn to Stone, Emily Meg Weinstein escapes her past and finds community, courage, and herself among climbers and van-dwellers in the American West.

How to Be the Best Creative Director in the Business

How to Be the Best Creative Director in the Bus...

Randall Levensaler is known as a top art director and designer in the outdoor industry. Over nearly two decades, he was the art director for Climbing, Rock and Ice, Trail...

How to Be the Best Creative Director in the Bus...

Randall Levensaler is known as a top art director and designer in the outdoor industry. Over nearly two decades, he was the art director for Climbing, Rock and Ice, Trail...

From the Archive: Climbing Fun in the 'Needles'

From the Archive: Climbing Fun in the 'Needles'

Between the 1940s and 1980s, Herb and Jan Conn made over 200 first ascents in the Needles of the Black Hills of South Dakota and published the first-ever guidebook for...

From the Archive: Climbing Fun in the 'Needles'

Between the 1940s and 1980s, Herb and Jan Conn made over 200 first ascents in the Needles of the Black Hills of South Dakota and published the first-ever guidebook for...

Closing Chapter: On Bard, Miller, and a Single Tragic Day on Sea of Dreams

Closing Chapter: On Bard, Miller, and a Single ...

In a strange twist of fate, Sea of Dreams, a notoriously bold route on El Cap, figured intimately into the climbers' lives and deaths. Bard, Jim Bridwell, and Dave Diegelman...

Closing Chapter: On Bard, Miller, and a Single ...

In a strange twist of fate, Sea of Dreams, a notoriously bold route on El Cap, figured intimately into the climbers' lives and deaths. Bard, Jim Bridwell, and Dave Diegelman...