Great series on climbing history by John Middendorf
Here’s an excellent series of long articles, photos and diagrams of climbing history in Europe and North America, by American big wall expert and product designer John Middendorf.
Excellent writing and historical photos, highly recommended!
On your first visit, you can click the “Subscribe” button on the right side of the webpage to get free updates to this ongoing series.
John has more articles than what’s below, so check the archive section of his website, bigwallgear.com to see all of them.
(For details on his product design and portaledges, go to bigwalls.net)
Below are a few screen grabs from some of the terrific illustrations.
image: bigwallgear.com
image: bigwallgear.com
Did you know early forms of carabiners were used by climbers as early as 1890? I didn’t.
