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The all-star Japanese boulderer, 32, plans to make the Tokyo Olympics the final competition of her 16-year career.
This weekend’s competition saw a diverse group of climbers come to compete, spanning a wide range of paraclimbing categories.
Despite battling a 2020 pulley injury, the Polish climber is on top of the Speed game after a 7.38 first-place finish in Salt Lake City.
The British boulderer, with two overall Boulder World Cup wins under her belt, is the only British climber heading to Tokyo.
The Australian climber returned from a nine-year IFSC hiatus to compete in the Olympics, one of his lifelong goals.
Goris, who climbed 5.14 trad earlier this year, sent the legendary 35-pitch route in a mere five days.
18-year-old Erin Sterkenburg will represent South Africa in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics alongside teammate Chris Cosser.
Polish climber and skier Andrzej Bargiel accomplished the first ascent and ski descent of Yawash Sar II on April 30.
This South African climber and his teammate Erin Sterkenburg are the only Olympic climbers from the African continent.
The Spanish climber sent the route in 2013, proposing 9a (5.14d) at the time.
Seattle’s Vertical World climbing gym is fighting a $1,000,000 lawsuit brought by an injured gym member, who allegedly fell off an auto-belay route after failing to fully clip in.
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.
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.
A handful of American private entities and government agencies, including NASA and Space-X, have announced plans to build a climbing wall on the moon.
Maciek Ciesielski, Kacper Tekieli and Piotr Sułowski have completed one of the most notorious alpine linkups in Poland in a 43-hour winter blitz.
The Climbing Wall Association’s “Inside Voices” is a marketing campaign designed to give climbing gyms tools to stay afloat.
The duo climbed a new route, christened La Chaltenense last Wednesday on Cerro Chaltén (Fitz Roy) in Argentine Patagonia.
The German climber is selling t-shirts emblazoned with his famous #CarrotsForPower slogan, with all proceeds donated to a different NGO each month.
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.