Big Wall Climbing Home Page

Welcome to the Big Wall Climbing.com Web Page!

Big wall climbs are all about getting out in the wilderness and spending multiple days and nights on the largest rock faces in the world. Brought to you by John Middendorf.

Big Walls-a primer:

• Big Wall Slide Show (140 pictures with descriptions)
• How to: Big Wall Tech Manual
• Climbing Movies

More Big Wall Info:

• Photos of Big Walls
• Big Wall Difficulty Ratings
• Big Wall Equipment
• Yosemite Climbs
• Zion Climbs
• El Trono Blanco, Mexico
• Mt. Hooker, Wyoming
• The Troll Wall in Norway
• The Trango Towers, Pakistan

Big Wall Discussion Forum

Selected Articles by John Middendorf

• The Grand Voyage, Great Trango Tower, with Xaver Bongard (1992) with topo.
• The Mechanical Advantage (Published in Ascent)
• The Totem Pole with Jim Bridwell(1990)
• Organ Rock with Walt Shipley(1989)
• Caving in New Mexico(1995)
• A Tale of Red Tape (1995)
• Gnu Wave(1990)
• Rescue on Half Dome (1986)
• Hand Drilled Bolting article (1988)
• Technical Piece on camming devices.
• Garbology 101-Keeping the Mountains Pristine
• Heroes of climbing
• A Defense of YOSAR
• Joshua Tree Fixed Anchor Issue
• Yosemite Activism
• Climbing in Cuba
• Peanut Sauce Recipe
• Big Wall Blog

Links to more big wall and other pages