Sexualized characters, drama, sparkles, jerks who take the sport way too seriously... “Iwa Kakeru!” is a sadistic blend of everything we love to hate about anime and climbing.
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.
An expert explains why the destroyed artwork is an irreplaceable piece of Grand Canyon history.
Facing severe staffing shortages and equipment issues, the National Park Service has quietly dismantled its underwater recovery team at Lake Mead.
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Sexualized characters, drama, sparkles, jerks who take the sport way too seriously... “Iwa Kakeru!” is a sadistic blend of everything we love to hate about anime and climbing.
Vitaliy Musiyenko connected two Grade VI ridges in the Sierra Nevada to create the 32-mile Goliath.
“Climbing video games” are (almost) always duds, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few epic climbing scenes here and there.
The former comp climber went outside and had his eyes opened on real rock. Now he's on a mission to climb every hard boulder in Colorado.
The new route on a Himalayan peak was the hardest of high-altitude veteran Marek Holeček's life, and became a climb of epic proportions.
Not only was her ascent bold and quick, it was also the first female solo of the route.
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.