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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDesert 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleSimone 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...
View Article1-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...
View ArticleSébastien 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...
View ArticleUkrainian 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...
View ArticleClimbers 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...
View ArticleGianluca 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...
View ArticleAustin 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...
View ArticleAdam 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...
View ArticleTune 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...
View ArticleWinners 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleJakob 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...
View ArticleMajor 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...
View ArticleCamilla 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...
View ArticleBurly 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...
View ArticleMount 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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