2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (309+ words) About our reporting: Senior Editor Anthony Walsh spoke with professional rock climber Amity Martin (previously Warme) about her first ascent of Time is Dancing (5.14a; 1,000ft) on Lost Temple Spire, in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. “Did you hear about Amity’s new route…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1663+ words) As a climber, it’s nearly impossible to see a stark, jagged ridgeline cutting across the sky and not want to climb it. There’s something irresistible about traversing from end to end with exposure falling away on both sides. You feel…...

4+ day ago   (1265+ words) About our reporting: To investigate this fatal rappelling accident, reporter Natalie Berry spoke with IMFGA guide Calum Muskett, expert alpinist Colin Haley, and a close friend of the deceased. The results exposed a small yet fatal rappelling mistake that many…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (505+ words) The rocks we climb may be incredibly old, but the people who climb them span a remarkable breadth of ages. We’ve seen two year olds bouldering and 80-year-olds spryly sending sport climbs. In the past year alone, we’ve written about…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (207+ words) Our call to action for the Crux category? Capture climbers contemplating, pulling through, and falling off the crux. Cedar Wright famously proclaimed the dirtbag an endangered species in a 2014 Climbing essay. A former Climbing editor countered that dirtbagging isn’t dead,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (435+ words) In a sense, it’s the core of our sport: the crux. It’s the hardest moves on a climb, the moment of truth, and the split-second where you launch from one timeline into the next. In our experience, the crux is…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (874+ words) Climbing Magazine Opinion: When Did Gyms Get Too Scared to Grade Their Own Boulders? If no one else will say it, I will. From Phoenix to New York, London to Geneva, more than half of the gyms I’ve visited in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (767+ words) Skiers reign supreme when it comes to what happens after the main event. So much so that après ski has become an event in its own right, even drawing in non-skiers to partake (though not without heated debate). According to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) About our reporting: To get a clearer picture of the mass helicopter rescue refusal in the French Alps, Senior Editor Anthony Walsh spoke with a French IFMGA guide and drew upon his own experience in the alpine to analyze the…...