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Le Salon de l'Escalade 2027: discoveries and climbing activities at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
5+ hour, 34+ min ago (186+ words) For three days, whether you're a beginner or expert climber, dive into a host of activities, roundtables, and on-site conferences. Climbing in all its vertical grandeur will be showcased to the whole family, through books, challenges, activities, films, talks, artistic…...
Global Climbing Initiative Opens Environmental Grants Supporting Conservation Projects Worldwide: Apply for Up to $1, 000 in Funding for Sustainable Climbing Area Projects
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (271+ words) The grants provide up to $1, 000 USD for eligible projects outside the continental United States, as well as projects led by Indigenous communities within the United States. The current grant cycle opens applications from 6 July to 24 July 2026. The Global Climbing Initiative's…...
Woodbridge High senior wins gold medal in speed climbing
4+ hour, 3+ min ago (245+ words) When it comes to fear of heights, Maddi Haferling was born with the opposite gene " loving heights. The Woodbridge High senior started climbing a door at home at age 4 trying to reach a pull-up bar. By 10, she was signed up…...
The Second Climb
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (804+ words) The setting was beneath the hard lights and harder reality of the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, on Jan. 1, 2021. Clemson had just been dismantled by Ohio State 49-28 in a College Football Playoff semifinal. One year earlier, LSU had overwhelmed the…...
Very green rock but great climbing still!
23+ hour, 41+ min ago (18+ words) UKC Photos - Very green rock but great climbing still! UKClimbing - UKClimbing guide to The Ravenstones crag (Greater Manchester)...
116-year-old Tamil Nadu woman climbs Thirumala on foot
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (272+ words) Navaneethamma climbed part of the Seshachalam hills and covered over 3, 000 steps with the support of her family before reaching the hill shrine. After videos of her walking up to Tirumala for the darshan of Lord Venkateswara went viral, there has…...
World Climbing
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (113+ words) World Climbing Climbing has been confirmed as part of the Olympic Q-Series (formerly the Olympic Qualifier Series) in an expanded format on the road to the LA28 Olympic Games. With final programme details of each stop yet to be confirmed, the…...
No rope, no fear: This Tamil Nadu man turned a 55 foot palm tree into a safe climb with a simple idea - Business Today
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (450+ words) In a unique innovation aimed at making palm tree climbing safer and easier, a 35-year-old palm worker from Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi district has constructed a spiral iron staircase around a 55-foot-tall palmyra tree, an initiative that has drawn widespread attention....
Tamil Nadu man beats palm climber shortage with unique spiral iron staircase
1+ day, 11+ hour ago (286+ words) Mangalore Today Tamil Nadu man beats palm climber shortage with unique spiral iron staircase Thoothukudi, Jul 8, 2026: A 35-year-old man from Tamil Nadu has drawn widespread attention after building a customised spiral iron staircase around a palm tree, offering an innovative…...
Kashmir's new generation of climbers
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (174+ words) Greater Kashmir Srinagar, Jul 7: At 5: 20 on a cold July morning, when most of Kashmir was still asleep, six men quietly left their tents in the remote Katsal Valley. Ahead of them stood an unnamed line on the map, a route…...