Vertical Life #52 is here for spring ‘25, with a stoke-filled cover shot of Mathieu Luethi blazing up Gravity (6c/22) Krabi. Inside the mag we chat to Simon Carter about his latest innovations for climbing photography, take a peek inside Australia’s only climbing museum, and hear from Dr Felix Ritson about the nuanced relationship between climbing and mental health. Mikey Musch takes us along for the ride as he heads to Grampians/Gariwerd 42 times within a year to battle his project. We travel to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand to explore jungle crags with Vincent Chen. We get to know the young Beaudoin Sisters who at just 11 and 9 years old are crushing climbs harder than most of us will ever dream of, and Jarred Palanca tells us how he got his breathtaking highline shot at Mount Buffalo. The issue also features all the regular content and more to inspire and entertain, with loads of reviews, interviews and epic images.
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VERTICAL LIFE is the leading climbing magazine in Australia & New Zealand. Here at Vertical Life we love climbing and everything else that goes with life on the walls! Be it beanied bouldering, clip-up sportclimbing, old-school daddy-tradding, big-wall suffering, alpine extremism, spandex-clad competition climbing, ice climbing, mountaineering, slack-lining, desperate-times-call-for-desperate-measures buildering, and more – if it involves monkey business we will cover it.