A helicopter crash, brutal storms, and multiple dead climbers. For the world’s northernmost 7,000er, tragedy remains a familiar face.
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A helicopter crash, brutal storms, and multiple dead climbers. For the world’s northernmost 7,000er, tragedy remains a familiar face.
Yannick Flohé and Jules Marchaland just flashed V15, becoming—by most accounts—the first and second climbers to flash the grade, but the history of attempts is far from straightforward.
Lincoln Knowles says he is “free soloing a harder route every day” until he falls. Why are we watching?
Friends and climbing companions shared their memories of “Iron Uncle Kolya,” Nikolay Totmyanin, who died August 11.
Tanner Wanish and Michael Vaill repeated the 32-mile “Goliath,” the longest technical traverse in the world. Would they do it again? Probably not.
Conflicting accounts surround a highly publicized speed link-up in the Swiss Alps and its 21-year-old predecessor.
'L'Ombre du Voyageur' was proposed at V17, without shoes. Using shoes, gloves, and four kneepads, the second ascensionist says it’s just V14.
Big wall climbers battling an eldritch evil? Like its premise, The Sound is a mixed bag. The climbing is stellar. The plotting, writing, and acting? Not so much.
'Realm of Tor’ment' is Bosi’s fifth V17 boulder, the UK’s second, and his first proposal at the grade.
A party of four climbers took a long fall after their anchor blew on an alpine route. Only one survived.
After sending Box Therapy last year, which was then downgraded, Katie Lamb has climbed Yosemite's 'The Dark Side.'
We spoke to the British climber to learn how he managed one of the world's hardest boulders in under two weeks.
The American Olympian said the route forced her to “argue with doubt until it began to doubt itself.”
All sport routes will be retro-bolted to adhere to the ruling, and boulders and traditional climbs may be bolted as well.
Eugene Vahin passed away on January 23, after an unroped fall at The Junkyards, near Grassi Lakes, Canada.
Climbing caught up with the American sport climber shortly after she released her first EP on Spotify. We talked art, music, modeling, and what’s next.
Nathan Chaszeyka went into freefall after his Munter hitch unscrewed his carabiner while rappelling.
Takero “Kenro” Nakajima was one of Japan’s most-respected alpinists. He died with longtime rope companion Kazuya Hiraide, during an attempt of the West Face of K2 (8,611m).
Two rescues involving six climbers occurred simultaneously in Nevada’s Red Rock Canyon over the weekend. One resulted in a fatality.
