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Coloradans Catalina Shirley and Tyler Kempney took home gold medals in the country’s longest-running ice climbing competition.

Climbing spoke to French alpinist Charles Dubouloz after his stunning winter solo of the historic Rolling Stones on the Grandes Jorasses’s North Face.

Piolet d’Or-winning alpinist Graham Zimmerman shows how you don't need to be environmentally perfect to be a powerful advocate for the environment.

We've partnered with travel outfitter Modern Adventure to create four epic trips for Outside+ members at discounted rates. Better yet, an Outside editor will join you on each inaugural journey.

Finding balance between climbing and "life" is difficult. Pro climber Michaela Kiersch learned how to do it early in her career.

An earthquake and cataclysmic avalanches in the Langtang Valley, Nepal, spell tragedy for hundreds—and a close call for Colin Haley.

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Updated gear often takes a step back from the original design, but this redo of a classic is actually better.

At last, a comprehensive training plan from professional climbing coach Neil Gresham. This program guides you through the entire year and everyone can do it regardless of age, ability or experience.

10 years after the inaugural, and still only, bouldering gym opened, local climbers can now tackle the real thing in Valbona Valley. But hydropower plants and unregulated commercial development may muddy it all.

Each January we post a farewell tribute to those members of our community lost in the year just past. Some of the people you may have heard of, some not. All are part of our community and contributed to climbing.

Expressive writing may lead to faster recovery from injuries. It helps you organize your thoughts, de-stress, and stay motivated.

Power-endurance conditioning will give you the fitness required for sustained climbing sequences of between 15 and 40 moves, typically encountered on sport routes.

For the sixth phase we’re returning to low-intensity endurance to top up our fitness levels for longer routes.

If you stuck with the first four phases in this ongoing series, you should be feeling fit and ready to start strength training.

You’ve been training all year long. Now it’s time to focus on the skill element and see if the hard work has paid off.

Welcome to the Climbing's yearlong training plan. This eight-phase series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization, a proven approach to training that results in peak performance. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous with the end result being a better, stronger climbing machine—you.

Welcome to the Climbing's yearlong training plan. This eight-phase series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization, a proven approach to training that results in peak performance. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous with the end result being a better, stronger climbing machine—you.

Welcome to the Climbing's yearlong training plan. This eight-phase series will present specific workouts based on the principles of periodization, a proven approach to training that results in peak performance. Each six-week segment will build upon the previous with the end result being a better, stronger climbing machine—you.

We published close to thirty stories this week. Some were digitized versions of our latest print stories. Others were dusted off from Climbing's archives. Still more were original online content. Here are six stories that stood out.

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Fire up a backcountry meal to remember with these camp-friendly cookers.

The Kiwi alpinist Pat Deavoll was just below the summit of Alaska's Peak 11,520 when the whole face around her cut loose. It was the beginning of the ordeal of a lifetime.

"In a community that’s fixated on optimizing health and performance, I was heartbroken to realize how many people were barely hanging on."

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The Preseli stones were all transported to Stonehenge, 140 miles away. Preseli is a climbing area—a bouldering crag. 

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If you’re ready to take the plunge and start buying your own gear, here are a few of the most common mistakes new climbers make, with some common-sense solutions.

How you hold the rope is just one aspect of the belay and no more or less important than vigilance, rope management, and how and where you stand.

Your first month of gear with your Cairn outdoor-gear box subscription is on us.

A defeated Janja Garnbret leaves the gym and other surprising moments show us that even Olympians are human.

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Group of outdoor activists launch awareness program about justice and inclusion.

In these three short videos you'll learn the secure way to move from steep ice to slabby, tricks for rigging an ice anchor, and how to get the best performance from your ice picks.

Michael Reardon fell while free soloing... and lived. So Did John Bachar, James Lucas, Doug Heinrich, and Ben Heason. One of the five later died soloing.

Tired of bickering over climbing grades? Then check out this new, streamlined rating system.

Guided by Herman Buhl's famous "truisms," a young John Long gets into a ropeless jam high on Tahquitz Rock.

On the sharp end and otherwise at the Midwest's most storied climbing area.

“The Wall—Climb for Gold” is a 90-minute film that follows four Olympic athletes, from qualification to their performance on the big stage. Like any good sports film, it is deeply emotional.

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The Slovenian is one of the most dominant competition climbers of all time. Fresh off winning Olympic sport-climbing gold, she has her eye on the next prize.

Forced to try the routes after the gym hosted a bouldering competition and left them up for weeks, I found one session reignited my stoke.

By sending the Marcus Garcia test piece, Foster brings a decade of mentorship full circle. 

60, legendary Southwest climber. FA’ed thousands of boulders up to V10; free-soloed Fainting Imam (trad 5.13a; later 5.12c/d), Dreamscape (5.12a), La Espina (5.12a), Cochiti Mesa, New Mexico. Gifted skier, cyclist. Teacher, lives near Beijing; married.

We published close to thirty stories this week. Here are six that you won’t want to miss.

Watch one of the world’s best rock climbers choose his goals, deal with setbacks, and insist on progress.

Part III of Reel Rock's "Age of Ondra" asks how one of the world’s best rock climbers chooses his goals, deals with setbacks, and insists on progress.

Light, warm, and easy to clean: the Rumpl Original Puffy Throw is a game changer.

Still falling on your sport-climbing project? Then you might have your tactics all wrong.

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He may be the youngest climber to have put down 5.14c. And he just added two V12s to his tick list.

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Gnarly Nutrition’s new film, “Home Crag,” profiles the embattled canyon, which plays a centering role for the Salt Lake climbing community.

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While highballing isn’t for everyone, its techniques—pad placement, spotting, fall strategies and so on—are.

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Is toprope-soloing safe—and how can we make it safer?

Grga Brkić was warmed by his 6-month-old Alaskan Malamute, North, after a long fall on January 1.

From tufas to aretes and even crack climbing, it pays to know how to pinch. (And even better if you do it well!)

The Women's Crux Hoody is intended to be worn on warm-ups, for cool bouldering, and maybe out for a beer or hot chocolate afterwards.

Fred Beckey was one of America’s most accomplished and celebrated climbers. During his 77-year career he has made hundreds of first ascents, including routes on Denali, Devils Thumb, Mount Hood, Mount Edith Cavell, Mount Hooker, Mount Deborah, Devils Tower, and, of course, the celebrated Beckey/Chouinard on the South Howser Tower in the Bugaboos. He was the author of eight books including the popular Cascade Alpine Guide series. This feature originally appeared in Rock and Ice.

How one languishing 5.12 climber finally broke through her plateau (and pushed past her foot phobia) by taking up... of all things... Acro Yoga.

Elbow problems are the most common climbing injuries after fingers and shoulders. If you are suffering nagging elbow pain, there's a road to recovery.

Pavitra Vandenhoven was adopted by a Belgian family at the age of five. It set off her climbing dream that has today led to two World Cup golds.

Climbing has long celebrated hard drinking and drugs. Many climbers become lifelong alcoholics and addicts and their families, friends and climbing partners bear the high price. One of climbing's most iconic figures fell into the pit, but pulled himself out and now has an important lesson every climber should read.

In these three short videos you'll learn basic and advanced dry tooling, and a technique every ice climber must master—placing ice screws.

Irene Yee (she/her), a climber of eight years, breaks down barriers through her photography. She reflects on our community, privilege, and what it means to be loud.

Paul Sibley, Deborah Hammock and Josh Gross and Madoline Wallace-Gross have given and given to the climbing community.

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There's a reason why gear is made specifically for climbing, but this guy just didn't get it.

Power is different from strength and gives you the explosive energy for cruxes. Understanding the difference is crucial to improving your power game.

Climbing outside is pretty different from the gym. The holds aren't color-coordinated. The feet are smaller. The crimps are sharp. But these four tips can ease your transition outside.

Falling is part of climbing. But so, occasionally, is not falling.