Ondra, Raboutou, Noguchi, Garnbret, and Megos are household names, but many Olympic climbers are folks you may not be familiar with...
The author learns to trust the wisdom of his elders on a wildly jinxed motorcycle-mountaineering trip to Ecuador.
On a motorcycle trip to Italy, we learn it’s not when you arrive, but how, and it’s not what you bring, it’s how you pack it. Sponsored for EVERGOODS.
At The North Face Climbing Festival in London, I spoke with Stefano Ghisolfi, Fay Manners, Nathaniel Coleman, and others about their upcoming projects.
To Grammy-nominated violinist and activist Vijay Gupta, classical music was made for the streets.
Forget the 5.14 sufferfests. We asked elite athletes like Alex Honnold, Sasha DiGiulian, and Alex Megos to share the moderate lines they love.
Siebe Vanhee, Séan Villanueva O’Driscoll, and Symon Welfringer completed a first ascent two decades in the making. Now, Vanhee reveals the scariest moments and whether the 5,000-foot route was worth the risk.
On May 9, Konstantin Smirnov’s mountaineering guide abandoned him at 25,900 feet on the fifth-highest mountain on Earth. He's now taking the guide company to court.
Two Wyoming campers did everything right—keeping food out of their tents and using deterrents—but a black bear refused to back down.
Over intense opposition from the Havasupai Tribal Council, state officials quietly approved a request from the Pinyon Plain uranium mine to adjust acceptable levels of toxic chemicals in the mine’s monitoring well.
The Indian government has definitively identified the mountain's most famous dead body. Now comes the dangerous, expensive reality of hacking him out of the ice.
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Ondra, Raboutou, Noguchi, Garnbret, and Megos are household names, but many Olympic climbers are folks you may not be familiar with...
The all-star Japanese boulderer, 32, plans to make the Tokyo Olympics the final competition of her 16-year career.
Eight products that all climbers should check out for their camping trips to the crag this season.
The glaciers on Pico de Orizaba (18,491 feet), Mexico’s tallest peak, will soon be the stuff of history.
Climbing meme pages are becoming extremely popular, with high engagement and growing follower counts.
Goris, who climbed 5.14 trad earlier this year, sent the legendary 35-pitch route in a mere five days.
Polish climber and skier Andrzej Bargiel accomplished the first ascent and ski descent of Yawash Sar II on April 30.
The Spanish climber sent the route in 2013, proposing 9a (5.14d) at the time.
Rock climbers have long scoffed at the 14er-bagging goal as fodder for ‘hikers’ and old men who fancy themselves mountaineers after a summer tick of Whitney. They’re wrong, and here’s why.
When Darrin Reay found three sport lines had been bolted over ancient rock art in Moab last weekend, he promptly removed the bolts. Climbing reached out to chat with Reay about the incident.
In 2010, Mike Libecki set out for Afghanistan alone to tackle a series of remote first ascents. It would lead him to the closest call he's ever had in his life.
The 23-year-old Frenchman has ticked the second ascent of Simon Lorenzi’s proposed V17 in the Font, suggesting a slight downgrade to V16.
Yosemite National Park has announced plans to set up an extensive network of auto belays on the iconic big wall, beginning with a series of auto belays protecting the Nose.
Maciek Ciesielski, Kacper Tekieli and Piotr Sułowski have completed one of the most notorious alpine linkups in Poland in a 43-hour winter blitz.
Your uncle Paul, who does some high-paying job for a mid-level government contractor, has just returned from his expedition to summit Everest, the ultimate goal for any climber.
The duo climbed a new route, christened La Chaltenense last Wednesday on Cerro Chaltén (Fitz Roy) in Argentine Patagonia.
High-altitude workers have long been subject to hazardous work conditions and practices. With their new Mountain Worker Initiative, the UIAA hopes to help the situation.
Gym Climber reached out to Chelsea Rude, a climbing coach who recently founded the nonprofit “She Sends Collective” to ask her some questions about the project.
Jackson Smith, a 33-year-old climber, has clipped the chains on Toxic Paradise, his 5.11d project that he’s been telling everyone at the gym about for the past three months.