16+ hour, 48+ min ago  (573+ words) When the International Olympic Committee announced that climbing would be included as a sport for the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, 10-year-old Ayaka Morita made a decision: One day she would climb her way to the top — all the way to…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (949+ words) On a video call, Gabriel Tallent is recounting a terrifying climbing experience he hoped to capture in his second novel, “Crux,” a relentlessly intense but often funny coming-of-age story. “I was on a climb called Batwing Deluxe,” he recalls, describing…...