long story), explored Hueco Tanks in the 1980s, and penned the first climbing guidebook to the area. He offered a point by point refutation of the plan, which is still in effect in essentially ...

Today, only 70 people at a time can enter Hueco Tanks without a guide, and rock climbing is carefully regulated. Only North Mountain, one of the park’s three peaks, is open to self-guided ...

Roque, 32, is an interpretive guide at Hueco Tanks, a world-renowned destination for rock climbing and prehistoric pictographs 36 miles outside El Paso. Her journey to the job required a series of ...