Gravity plays a big role in the sport Scott Adamson pursues. “Alpine climbing makes you go minimal,” he explains. “The less stuff you have, the less you have to haul up, down or across.” But it’s not just on his adventures that Adamson travels light. “Everything I own fits in the back of my truck,” he says. This allows him more time to be outside, which is just where he needs to be. Adamson has developed more than 100 ice and mixed routes in his home state, Utah, plus first ascents of hard ice and alpine lines in Alaska and Nepal. But it’s not those ascents that make Adamson happy; it’s his passion for the unknown. “Cutting edge alpine climbing allows me to push my mind and body to a point of purity,” he says. “Sharing this same passion with a community of good friends makes it all worth it at the end of the day.” Check out photos from a climbing, bikepacking and packrafting trip Adamson, Steve “Doom” Fassbinder and Angela Van Wiemeersch embarked on.”
