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Jorge Díaz-Rullo Sends V15/16, Two V15s, Two V14s and More

Jorge Díaz-Rullo has just finished up a three-week bouldering trip to Switzerland. While there, he racked up a huge list of hard sends, including Giuliano Cameroni’s mega classic Hazel Grace Sit...

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The First Ascent of Mount Everest’s Kangshung Face

The Kangshung Face of Mount Everest rises approximately 3,350 metres from the Kangshung Glacier to the summit. It’s one of the mountain’s largest and most remote walls. The upper portion is dominated...

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Desert Crack Legend Devin Fin Talks Climbing

One thing that stays with me, wherever I have been climbing is the characters. We have our ropeguns, influencers, and our weekend warriors, but the characters are rough around the edges. Characters...

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How Jen Wood Trained for Her First 5.14d

Jen Wood sent her first 5.14d with Climb for Life in Sicily earlier this year, a route bolted and first climbed by Adam Ondra in 2012. With the ascent, Wood becomes just the third British woman to...

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Simone Tentori Climbs Insomniac V16 in Colorado

Italian Simone Tentori has climbed Drew Ruana’s Insomniac V16 at Lincoln Lake in Colorado. Established by Ruana in July 2021, the problem adds a low start that clocks in around V13 into Dave Graham’s...

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1-Year-Old Injured in 80-Foot Rappelling Fall

A father and his 1-year-old child were injured last week after falling approximately 80 feet while rappelling in the Virgin River Gorge near the Ghost Valley Trailhead in Arizona. The father and child...

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Sébastien Bouin Climbs New 5.15b in France

French climber Sébastien Bouin made the first ascent of Le Champ des Muses 5.15b at Romeyer in the Drôme region of southeastern France, near the town of Die, in April of this year. The extremely...

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Ukrainian Jenya Kazbekova Climbs Chris Sharma’s Dreamcatcher 5.14d in Squamish

Jenya Kazbekova recently redpointed her first 5.14d (9a) with Chris Sharma’s Dreamcatcher in Squamish, British Columbia. Known for her success in competition climbing, Kazbekova has recently been...

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Climbers Rescued from Emperor Face on Mount Robson

Near the end of September, Parks Canada’s Visitor Safety team assisted in rescuing two climbers from the Emperor Face of Mount Robson. As Jasper National Park released in a statement, the rescue began...

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Gianluca Vighetti Repeats an Adam Ondra Classic

On October 1, Gianluca Vighetti ticked the first pitch of Adam Ondra’s Change 5.15a (9a+). The 18-year-old Italian climber made quick work of the first pitch and expressed his intention to climb the...

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Austin Hoyt and What Could Be the World’s Hardest Boulder Problem

“I realized that I needed to do this climb.” Austin Hoyt was lying in his bedroom in New York, looking up at a poster that had been there for most of his climbing life. It showed Daniel Woods making...

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Adam Ondra and Jessi Pilz Win Rock Master Gold

Jessica Pilz and Adam Ondra won the women’s and men’s KO Boulder competitions at Rock Master in Arco on Saturday, with Ondra defeating Filip Schenk in the men’s final and Pilz taking the women’s title...

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Tune In to Gripped: The Climbing Podcast This Fall

Gripped: The Climbing Podcast will feature some of the world’s best climbers, industry-leading gear designers, gym owners, access advocates, award-winning photographers, and more. New episodes will...

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Winners Defeat Adam Ondra and Brooke Raboutou at Rock Master

Filip Schenk and Jessi Pilz took golds at the famous Rock Master comp this week, opening the event with victories in front of a packed crowd at the Climbing Stadium in Arco. Schenk defeated Adam Ondra...

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New Hard Alpine Climb Took 14 Days to Establish

Takaaki Nagato, Ryo Masumoto and Hiroki Yamamoto have climbed a difficult new 1,400-metre route on the south face of Koz Sar (6,677 m) in Pakistan’s Batura Muztagh range. The team reached the summit on...

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Jakob Schubert Livestreams First Three Redpoint Attempts of DNA 5.15d

Jakob Schubert is projecting Seb Bouin’s DNA 5.15d in La Ramirole, France. He has scheduled a month-long trip to try to make the first repeat of one of the few 5.15d routes in the world. Yesterday, he...

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Major Mountaineering Book Collection Comes to Market

Climbers love books, and now, a collection of 118 rare books, photographs and pieces of ephemera spanning more than 170 years of mountaineering history has come to market through Peter Harrington Rare...

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Camilla Moroni Makes Third Female Ascent of Dreamcatcher

Italian climber Camilla Moroni has climbed Dreamcatcher 5.14d in Squamish, sending the iconic Chris Sharma testpiece after 10 sessions. The ascent marks Moroni’s first 5.14d, with her previous hardest...

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Burly Boulders, 5.15d Try, Yosemite Aid and Hard Alpine

Here are the best climbing films of the week, some new and some old. Enjoy! Caleb Robinson on Room Service V12 “I’ve been waiting so long to get the chance to climb in Squamish. This was my second day...

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Mount Arapiles Climbing Bans Dramatically Scaled Back After Years of Pressure

After seven years of pressure on rock climbers in Western Victoria, the authorities have today walked back sweeping bans on rock climbing at Mount Arapiles, to introduce only a token ban, representing...

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