Steven Potter is a digital editor at Climbing Magazine. He’s been flailing on rocks since 2004, holds an MFA in creative writing from New York University, and has contributed hundreds of stories to Climbing, Outside, and Ascent. When he’s not climbing or writing about it, Potter is also a passionate fiction writer; his stories have appeared in Conjunctions and Narrative Magazine, been nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, and been honorable-mentioned in Best American Short Stories.
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My wife decided we needed an active outdoor getaway, a romantic ramble across moors and fells and three national parks. I knew it’d be hard. I’ve never been happier.
Jason Crist was charged with 29 counts including nine felonies
This 83-foot-tall wall—perhaps the world’s tallest home “woodie”—climbs through a retractable ceiling panel and boasts fantastic views of one of New York City’s poshest neighborhoods
There are two major differences between the Olympic sport-climbing event (singular) that debuted in Tokyo and the sport-climbing events (plural) that we’re watching in Paris this week
We chatted with Kai Lightner about diversity in the climbing world misconceptions about how accessible climbing is for people of color, and his nonprofit, Climbing For Change
Everest’s overcrowded South Col route has found its home on one of the world’s biggest digital hiking guides, where it’s “generally considered a very challenging route”
If the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service proposals pass, fixed anchors in wilderness will be considered illegal unless granted special permission
Suggested regulations would require land managers to review and approve all fixed anchors on wilderness routes. Climbing digital editor Steven Potter explains why the policies miss the mark.
Paradox Sports introduces hundreds of people with disabilities to climbing each year
Visiting the indoor crag during peak hours helped me cultivate a community
Massacre Rocks were the traditional wintering grounds for the Shoshone-Bannock people
In the age of knee-jerk monetization, have indoor climbing gyms jumped the shark?
A new book examines the history of free soloing, and tries to explain why climbers do it
Since 2007, Paradox Sports has run climbing trips, community nights, and training programs for veterans and adaptive athletes
Americans Josh Wharton and Vince Anderson completed the first integral ascent and first free ascent of the Italian route “Suerte” on 20,100-foot Peruvian peak Jirishanca