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First he was looking at motorcycle-crash type injuries. Then it got worse. A detour on the famous route Serpentine, Suicide Wall.

Emiliyan Kolevski climbs Opa Opa, an 8c (5.14b) in Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria.

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With its virtual BGC Marketplace, Brown Girls Climb will harness the power of the dollar to achieve social change.

The glaciers on Pico de Orizaba (18,491 feet), Mexico’s tallest peak, will soon be the stuff of history.

Yep, you read that right. Team US has two winners!

“My opinion is clearly that to be the best climber, you don’t have to dope but just train hard and intelligently.”

Twelve athletes have just earned their places in the final round of this weekend's Bouldering World Cup. Among them: Four Americans! In the lead are the usual suspects: Janja Garnbret and Tomoa Narasaki

By the round’s end, Garnbret had topped all five boulders, but so had Japan’s Miho Nonaka, the United States’ Natalia Grossman, and Japan’s Futaba Ito.

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In a powerful performance on home turf, Emma Hunt advanced to finals and got a podium, while John Brosler was narrowly edged out of bronze.

Jonathan Siegrist is on a mission to push climbing to the max...looking for the hardest sport climbing the US has to offer. And sometimes that means getting out there to the back and beyond...And when you do sometimes you get to climb in places like this.

The 2021 Speed World Cup season is off to a helluva good start.

All proceeds from a new book of climbing haikus will go toward rebolting efforts by the American Safe Climbing Association.

The boulder, right in San Diego, was like no other and became a testpiece hang where visitors were welcome to be punished.

In the early 1990s in Patagonia you were on your own. You lived by the weather, chasing brief clear windows hoping you could get up, and down, before storm slammed the door shut ... or spelled disaster.

ClimbAID brings a portable climbing wall to refugee children in Lebanon.

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"White darkness. We are imprisoned here by the weather."

Between the 2021 Salt Lake City World Cups—at the first of which Brooke made her first World Cup podium—she also makes a casual flash of Euro Trash (V12/8A+).

Business trips, long vacations and bad weather limit your training. Here are some tips for training on the road.

Ben Madrid’s debut film acknowledges the struggles of 2020 while still remaining hopeful.

Video replay of the Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake City. Natalia Grossman takes the gold. Brooke Raboutou wins bronze.

Jimmy Webb, Davin Bagonas, Daniel Woods and Keenan Takahashi establishing incredible lines deep in the Grand Tetons.

How Kānaka Climbers is encouraging ethical outdoor recreation in the state.

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If you’re the type of climber that fantasizes about splitter cracks in the Creek, froths over long runouts on alpine granite, and has YouTubed “how to place a hex,” you are surely going to salivate over the deals that Backcountry.com is offering on trad gear. With discounts up to 30% off on everything from cams to crack shoes, you are not going to want to miss out on this.

Writes filmmaker Cam Maier, "Most Denver area climbers have heard of what happened to Minko Nikolov, but when I caught him at the gym he was kind enough to tell me his incredible story."

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Trad Climbing Doesn't Have a Bolt to Protect Every Other Move, and How You Sew Up a Pitch Can Be a Matter of Life and Death, or at Least Life and Being Seriously Gripped.

And #50 was the most special of all: his hardest climb to date, and a first ascent to boot.

The route they said, was easy, but then they said it was impossible, deadly even in these conditions. So which was it?

Are two sorta high-tech (sounding) elbow treatments for climbers worth the time and money? Our intrepid doctor gives us the real dope.

Behind the rebel cottage brand’s satirical exterior, you’ll find struggle, parody, and decades of American climbing history.

Of the “Six Great North Faces of the Alps,” the Piz Badile is the least known, yet the tragedy that unfolded during its first ascent, with four dead, ranks as one of climbing's bleakest epics.

Decades before John Bachar died in a solo fall, he took John Long on a ropeless "Half Dome": They'd climb 2,000 feet at Joshua Tree—without a rope.

Seven times up El Cap is the lucky number for Squamish big wall climber

Even if he were wearing a helmet, this would've hurt.

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So far this year we’ve seen an insurrection, an inauguration and an impeachment. A climber’s report from America’s last, and most reluctant, state.

Wherein the author finds some good bouldering, is cursed by the gods and experiences an epiphany in Africa’s legendary Mountains of the Moon.

The rules are simple; we have one weekend (64 hours) to complete each objective. The clock to Beat Monday starts at 5PM on Friday, and ends at 9AM on Monday.

The comment period for the Eldorado Canyon State Park draft management plan closes on May 25.

Physician Brian Irwin reports on the dangerous situation that continues to brew at Everest Base Camp in Nepal. “This is a major scandal and a scam,” Everest guide and operator Lukas Furtenbach said.

Alex Honnold ascends 1,000 feet of sheer rock to the top of the tepui, a remote “island in the sky” deep in the Amazon jungle.

The Himalaya of India Has Long Been the Proving Ground for Mountaineering and Alpinism, But a Wealth of Boulders Being Developed by Local Climbers Could Put the World's Greatest Range on the Map for an Entirely Different Reason.

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The Zero Friends have one of the narrowest heads on the market, earning a spot on your rack for pods, pin scars and tricky placements.

Right now Wild Country is offering wicked discounts on a bunch of gear at Backcountry.com. You’ll find deals on everything from cams to ascenders to quickdraws and more. With most items listed at 25% off, you surely won’t want to miss this.

In October 2020, Jeff and Priti Wright made the first ascent of K6 Central (7,100 meters) in Pakistan's Karakoram Range.

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It was always a daydream. If the perfect series of events happened, maybe, just maybe this canyon would produce ice flows.

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Didier Berthod is a crack climbing legend and was an inspiration to us and many back in the early 2000s.

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This interview was published a little less than a year before Dean Potter's death on May 16, 2015.

“It’s cool doing an older route that doesn’t get climbed. That’s part of the appeal.”

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Jackson Hole has world-class summer adventures waiting for every adventurer!

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Dakota Walz set out in 2019 to climb 5,280 vertical feet of first ascents in the American Southwest. Along the way, he faced uncertainty, fear, doubt, loose rock, and runouts—and many times wondered: Is the project even worth it? In the end, he learned it was the process that mattered—not just the summits.

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Danny Gilbert was an avid basketball player. When he sprained his ankle, he couldn’t play anymore and needed a new outlet. Climbing delivered.

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The 18-year-old Sterkenburg will represent South Africa in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics alongside teammate Chris Cosser.

John Long, an original Stonemaster, rolled into Yosemite in the early 1970s. He's learned a lot since then.

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Goris, who climbed 5.14 trad earlier this year, sent the legendary 35-pitch route in a mere five days.

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