Documenting the evolving tools of our vertical world
Continuing Vertical Archaeology’s long running love affair with LONGware equipment, I present the approximate piton selection Gerry offered from LONGware in 1964. The pitons shown in our gallery and illustrated in the catalog pages...
Second in our series of early catalog recreations, these are the items offered by Gerry in 1960. Notice the interesting shape of the top two pitons. Both the vertical style and the horizontal have...
The art of making your own equipment is largely forgotten today. There was once a time when quality climbing gear either wasn’t readily available or didn’t come in the sizes or shapes climbers needed...
Featured in this gallery is the equipment I have collected from my time climbing and exploring with desert legend Harvey T. Carter. I climbed with him hundreds of times in the 1990s and our...
