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Watch What Happens When This Climber Breaks the First Rule of Alpine Climbing
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (482+ words) Readers, please send us your Weekend Whipper videos using this form. There are not many rules in climbing, much less in alpine climbing. But I decided to make one for myself several years ago, after watching a video of the…...
How the Guy Who Invented V-Grades Won Back His Bouldering Mojo
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1665+ words) Bouldering legend John "Verm" Sherman describes the narrative arc of the average climbing film as follows: Hero picks outlandish project, can't quite do it, comes back, finally succeeds and everybody's happy. While he would have taken the happy ending for…...
A Letter to My Late Climbing Partner
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (775+ words) Every January, we share a tribute to members of our community who we lost last year. Some were legends, others were pillars of their community, all were climbers. Read the full tribute to Climbers We Lost in 2025 here. So let's…...
One Year After Her Historic V16, Katie Lamb Deconstructs the Mental Side of Bouldering
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1597+ words) Katie Lamb is one of three recipients of Climbing Magazine's 2025 Golden Piton. The award recognizes her achievement of becoming the first woman to climb a V16 problem when she climbed The Dark Side in Yosemite last April. Winners were selected by…...
Connor Herson Opens Up About Going Viral at 15 and Sending What Could Be the Planet's Hardest Trad Climb
2+ week, 4+ day ago (1034+ words) Connor Herson is one of three recipients of Climbing Magazine's 2025 Golden Piton. The award recognizes his first free ascent of Drifter's Escape, in Squamish, British Columbia. The single-pitch crack is likely the world's first 5. 15 trad climb. When Connor Herson first…...
One of My Best Expeditions Included Big Wall First Ascents'And I Didn't Lead a Single Pitch
3+ week, 2+ day ago (453+ words) The wind howls through the mast, making its cables vibrate like guitar strings. Seven of us are sitting shoulder to shoulder around the small table in the middle of our 15-meter aluminum sailboat, mugs of tea trembling with every gust....
Judge Saves Iconic Climbing Area (For Now), With Less Than 24 Hours to Spare
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (245+ words) It's been a wild ride for the beloved climbing area known as Oak Flat. With just hours left before 2, 400 acres of National Forest lands across Oak Flat fell into the hands of Resolution Copper, the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…...
Jorge D'az-Rullo Calls "Caf" Colombia" in Margalef, Spain the "Best Four Minutes of Climbing" in His Life
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1164+ words) In the late afternoon on Friday, March 13, Jorge D'az-Rullo climbed through a wet streak running down the final 15 feet of his long-time Caf" Colombia project. Nearly five years after first attempting the line, he clipped the chains and sagged onto…...
For 35 Years, The World's Best Climbers Couldn't Send This Route. A Barefoot Teenager Just Did.
3+ week, 6+ day ago (907+ words) Until last month, Le Bomb" Bleu was one of the world's hardest open projects. But when it was finally sent on February 11, some 35 years after it was bolted, the deed wasn't done by a veteran climber with cutting-edge gear, but…...
This Data Nerd Has Documented Every Route She's Climbed for 20 Years
3+ week, 6+ day ago (653+ words) I stared up at the rock-spitting couloir in horror, as rotten snow snaked its way into the opaque fog. "We're supposed to go up there?" my climbing partner questioned. He looked almost nauseous at the prospect of ascending nature's finest…...