5+ day, 16+ min ago   (393+ words) Climbing grades don’t matter. You, me, us—we should just climb because it feels right. An unnatural focus on grades or definitions is to miss the whole point of climbing—freedom, travel, experience, intensity, overcoming boundaries. We all hate the…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (674+ words) When I arrived in Yosemite in May, my goal was to make my fifth ascent of El Capitan. For climbers, “The Big Stone” is the most iconic cliff in the world, and I’d been looking forward to climbing it again…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (702+ words) Steve Sutton grew up climbing on the iconic Squamish Chief. In 1970, he pioneered a 10-pitch route on the Grand Wall with Hugh Burton: Uncle Ben’s (5.10 C2+). The climb cemented a dynamic partnership. But it also served as a precursor to cutting-edge…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1366+ words) When most climbers think of sport climbing, they picture clipping bolts, pulling hard moves, and trusting that if they fall, the rope will catch them without much drama. Sport climbing emerged in the U.S. in the 1980s, shifting the focus away from…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (897+ words) Three new maps created by the Outdoor Alliance with insights from Access Fund shed light on how the recent reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments could impact climbers. As most climbers know, Indian Creek is by far…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1737+ words) In the wonderful world of climbing, there are routes and crags that bring joy, and a little fear, to any climber’s eye. While us mere mortals might not scale Biographie in Céüse, we still want to experience these world-class crags,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (486+ words) Ask a professional climber about their proudest achievements on rock, and you’ll probably get a list of 5.14 or 5.15 sufferfests requiring months of training and complex micro-beta. But if you ask those same athletes to name the routes that made them…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (928+ words) The haul bag was stuck, snared around a granite corner, and Siebe Vanhee had rappelled down to free it. Vanhee and his two climbing partners, fellow Belgian Séan Villanueva O’Driscoll and Frenchman Symon Welfringer, were more than two thousand feet…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (507+ words) Let me guess: Your kids are complaining about going climbing again! Not everyone is lucky enough to give birth to the future Connor Hersons or Brooke Raboutous of the world. In an unfortunate twist of fate for the hardworking climber…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (33+ words) Save 30% on unlimited access to Climbing, maps, and more Everything you need to climb farther, better, and with deeper purpose. From gyms to granite Technique, training, and tips Stories beyond the summit...