The Climbing Art was a quarterly magazine of rock climbing founded and edited initially by legendary Colorado rock climbing Pat Ament. It exited in the 1980s and 1990s, and had as writers and subject such influential climbers as John Gill, Derek Hersey, Terry Gifford, Peter Croft, Greg Child, Alison Osius, David Breashers, Todd Skinner, John Bachar, Tom Frost, David Craig, Mirella Tenderini, Antoine Savelli, George Hurley, and Royal Robbins.