Stewart M. Green

I'm writing a book of climbing stories right now. One of the chapters is called "Tale of Three Towers." It's about a climb

Jim McCarthy and I visit at a roadside cafe in Ridgway in mid-July. I finally met legendary climber Jim McCarthy a couple days ago in Ridgwa

Flag Day. June 14, 1911. We salute you, John Otto, pathfinder, patriot, trail-builder, first superintendent of Colorado National Monument, c

John Otto, a crazy redneck cowboy, trailbuilder, and general pain in the neck to local politicians and newspapers, did the first ascent of t

On Saturday, September 23, 1927, Joe Stettner (1901-1997) and Paul Stettner (1906-1994), two German immigrant brothers from Chicago, Illinoi

I'm in the barren wilds of western Arizona hanging out with the great 1960s American climber Layton Kor. Layton, along with Royal Robbin

Here's a photo I took in late April, 2005 of John Gill, former mathematics professor at the University of Southern Colorado and one of t

Jim Bridwell, one of the legendary hard rock greats, passed on to the great cliff in the sky on February 16, 2018, from complications of hep

After Jimmie Dunn and I did the sixth ascent of Castleton Tower near Moab on Labor Day weekend in 1971, we trundled down the gravel slopes t

Technical climbing in Colorado began with Albert Ellingwood, a political science professor at Colorado College. Ellingwood, born in Iowa in