3+ day, 14+ 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…...

4+ day, 9+ 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, 9+ hour ago   (1655+ words) About our reporting: Climbing journalist Ryleigh Norgrove spoke with three gym owners and the president of the Climbing Wall Association to investigate how outdated city zoning codes are delaying openings and forcing closures, even for successful climbing gyms. “As the…...

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, 7+ hour 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, 4+ 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…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (611+ words) Then, on August 16, Laura Rogora did it in six. “I had never tried a route this hard before, so I really had no idea how long it would take,” Rogora told Climbing in an email. “Six days was definitely not…...