Climbing

Cochamó: The high and the wild … and how to keep it that way

Published in NZ Adventure Magazine, April/May 2023

Adventure climbing in Spain: The road less travelled

Published in NZ Adventure Magazine, Feb/March 2023

Alpine climbing in a warming climate: The times, they’re not for wasting

Published in NZ Adventure Magazine, Dec 2022/Jan 2023

Alpine cragging vs danger-walking: The other access conundrum

Published in NZ Climbing Journal, Autumn 2022

Butt Hurt: When a first ascent mission leaves you broken tail-boned.

Published in NZ Climbing Journal, Autumn 2022

The Central Darrans: The line of most radness

Published in NZ Climbing Journal, Spring 2022

A firsthand account of a free-solo accident in the Sierra Nevada

Published in Outside Online, September 2021

The Darrans: Sinbad, Terror Peak, and the barely believable 11-day weather window

Published in NZ Climbing Journal, Autumn 2021

Go with the flow

Published in New Zealand Adventure, April/May 2021

Second Chances: Turning a terrifying fall into an opportunity

Published in New Zealand Adventure, April/May 2021

Chasing the High, lucky charms: When free solos go wrong

Published in The Climber, July 2020

The Access Conundrum

Published in The Climber, March 2020

Chasing the High: El Capitan

Published in The Climber, January 2020

More than a decade of vanlife

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Dec/Jan 2020/21

Chasing the High: Free solo

Published in The Climber, July 2019

Dirtbag Dispatches: The three priorities of mountain climbing

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, June/July 2019

Chasing The High: Mexico

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, June/July 2019

Lucky Charms

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, April/May 2019

Chasing The High: Kalymnos

Published in The Climber, Jan 2019

Dirtbag Dispatches: The Totem Pole

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Dec 2018/Jan 2019

Chasing The High – Indian Creek

Published in The Climber, Oct 2018

Dirtbag Dispatches: Australia’s climbing meccas

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Oct/Nov 2018

Dirtbag Dispatches: Dirtbag Queens

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Aug/Sept 2018

Chasing The High – Why is climbing so glorious?

Published in The Climber, July 2018

Dirtbag Dispatches: The Real Big Drip

Published in Adventure Magazine, June/July 2018

Dirtbag Dispatches: Land of the Free – A tour of Indian Creek and the Red River Gorge

Published in Adventure Magazine, Feb/March 2018

Leavittation: the origins of hand-stacking. A look at how this crack climbing technique developed from Randy Leavitt and Tony Yaniro.

Published in Gripped Magazine, November 2017

Dirtbag Dispatches: Intestinal Misadventures of the Vertical World – the cruel and embarrassing toilet mishaps of climbing adventures.

Published in Adventure Magazine NZ in Oct/Nov 2017

Dirtbag Distpaches: King of the Rockies, an account of climbing the Emperor Ridge of Mt Robson, the tallest peak in the Canadian Rockies

Published in Gripped in Apr/May 2017, and in NZ Adventure Magazine in Aug/Sept 2017

Dirtbag Dispatches: She’ll be right … maybe – a winter of optimism bias leads to some close calls, from 8m falls on ice to being dragged down by a sudden avalanche

(features photography from myself and Alex Ratson)

Published in NZ Adventure Magazine, June/July 2017

Remembering Anna Smith: a tribute to my friend, her climbing exploits, and her feminist streak. She tragically passed away in India in 2016

Published in Terra Incognita Media, July 2017

Dirtbag Dispatches: Grizzly Bites – the survival story of a horrific grizzly attack on a pair of British climbers in a remote part of the Canadian Rockies.

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Apr/May 2016

Dirtbag Dispatches: China Rocks – a visit to the climbing meccas of China, from Yangshuo to Getu to Li Ming.

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, Feb/March 2016

Dirtbag Dispatches: The Darran Mountains – New Zealand’s rain-swept climbing mecca.

Published in New Zealand Adventure Magazine, December 2016/January 2017

Remembering Anna Smith.

Published in Gripped Magazine, Canada, December 2016

Logan Barber and his trad-climbing exploits in China, in which he repeating the country’s hardest trad route, and then establishing two harder ones.

Published in Outside China, November 2016. Story by Derek Cheng, photos by Garrett Bradley.

Dirtbag Dispatches: Solo Scrambles

Published in Adventure Magazine, New Zealand, Oct/Nov 2016

Profile of American climber Mike Dobie, who overcame many obstacles – including alcohol addiction – to become a leading developer in China.

Published in Outside China, October 2016. Story by Derek Cheng, photos by Garrett Bradley

Dirtbag Dispatches: The Big Stone

Published in Adventure Magazine, New Zealand, Aug/Sept 2016

Dirtbag Dispatches: The First Rule of Ice Climbing is …

Published in Gripped Magazine Dec 2016, and in Adventure Magazine New Zealand, June/July 2016

Enhancing the experience: bigger, bolder, scarier – a foray into the alpine.

Published in The Climber, April 2016

Filling in the blanks: a photo essay on Li Ming and Keketuohai, in China.

Published in Ascent Magazine, April 2016. Text by Derek Cheng, photos by Garrett Bradley

Dirtbag Dispatches – Vanlife, a love affair.

Published in NZ Adventure Magazine, Feb/March 2016

Dirtbag Diaries – the beach climbing paradise of Tonsai, Thailand

Published in Adventure Magazine NZ, Dec/Jan 2015/16, and in Gripped Magazine, June 2016

The Quiet American – a profile of American climber Mike Dobie, who has overcame addiction and found purpose in developing trad-routes in remote, rock-filled corners of China.