Owen Clarke

The 3,500-foot 5.10d, Guaranteed Rugged, was a multi-year undertaking for Brent Nixon, Lisa Newhook, Sean Draper, and Kate Naus.

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Jackson Marvell, Alan Rousseau, and Matt Cornell completed Denali’s 9,000-foot Slovak Direct in under 22 hours.

The staunch Yosemite hardman pioneered modern free climbing ethics, and accomplished first ascents of some of America’s most iconic climbs.

The American mountaineer is among the most famous all-around climbers in the world and a prominent activist.

Jackson Smith, a 33-year-old climber, has clipped the chains on his 5.11d project that he’s been telling everyone at the gym about for the past three months.

The 67-year-old died after a fall on Independence Monument's Otto’s Route (5.8+)

A few tips and tricks for your first day at the crag, from someone who learned all these lessons the hard way.

The actress, dancer, photographer, and Nazi filmmaker was a close friend of Hitler, and one of the progenitors of the mountain film industry.

The second iteration of this climbing game is decidedly more enjoyable than the first, though the formula remains largely the same.

The American climber pushed the boundaries of free soloing and speed soloing, and was a preeminent highliner and BASE jumper.

The New Zealand mountaineer achieved international fame after his summit of the world’s highest peak in 1953. He also visited the North and South Pole, among other ventures.

The Slovenian is climbing’s first female Olympic medalist, the first woman to onsight 5.14b, and perhaps our sport’s strongest overall competitor

29-year-old Dalton Snow was hospitalized after a trad fall while climbing on April 12, near Kings Bottom, Moab.

The 21-year-old was climbing V10 by the age of nine and was the USA’s first qualified Olympic climber.

Brent Barghahn and Amity Warme free climbed Freerider (VI 5.13a) in a day without any support or rehearsal.

By the time of his and Sir Edmund Hillary's successful Everest climb, Norgay had been to the mountain six times and was a prolific high-altitude climber, earning numerous prestigious awards.

Non-fungible Tokens give freelance photographers, videographers, writers, and other self-employed climbers a new market and method for sales.

Move over Speed. “Campusing” is the newest climbing category to feature in the upcoming Olympic Games.

Ever wanted to climb an 8,000er while watching Netflix and sipping hot cocoa? The AlpineComfortMAX is bridging the gap between luxury and alpine adventure.

The autonomous iSAVE-U drone is capable of long-lining climbers off walls up to 50 miles away.

Alison Hargreaves and her son Tom Ballard were two of the finest alpinists of their eras. “The Last Mountain” skillfully exposes the void formed in their wakes, though it diminishes Ballard’s climbing partner in the process.

Krakauer’s nonfiction works, such as Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, are among the world’s most widely-read pieces of outdoor literature.

He established 5.9 in the early 1900s at a time when that was likely the highest grade worldwide, and went on to pioneer what would become the Northeast Ridge route on Everest.

The nine-fingered Dawn Wall climber was one of climbing’s first celebrities and a pioneer of big wall Yosemite free ascents.

The Czech wunderkind is both a top-end sport climber and boulderer, and the only person in history to have sent a proposed 5.15d climb.

The 32-year-old American has over 30 V15 sends and several V16 first ascents.

Until Gill came along bouldering was regarded as a leisure activity. He brought it front and center, legitimizing what is today perhaps climbing's most popular discipline.

The fearless American free soloist brought climbing into the limelight, and upped the risk ante so high it may never be surpassed.

One of climbing's long-time pioneers, gear inventor and out-of-the-box thinker paved the way for modern competition, mixed and ice climbing.

The 200-page compendium highlights lesser-known crags in 50 countries around the world.

He made the first attempts on K2 and Kanchenjunga, and was a visionary rock climber putting up difficult routes in the late 1800s, but his climbing later took a backseat to his unsavory reputation as an occultist and sex fiend.

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Following his self-amputation and recovery, Ralston became a motivational speaker and continued climbing. Among other accomplishments, in 2005 Ralston became the first person to summit all of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks alone and in winter.  

A lone climber took a fatal fall after finishing a rope solo in Colorado’s Clear Creek on Wednesday, January 19.

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

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

Every training routine doesn't have to work you hard. A bit of moderation every day has its own benefits.

The Summit of the Gods is 90 minutes of jaw-dropping animation and a fascinating analysis of the climbing mind.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

These “ice stupas” in Chile will store over two million liters of water each, supporting mountain communities during increasingly long dry seasons.

A 26-year-old climber is in critical condition after being struck by a block knocked down from above.

Andrew Allen Arvig, 31, passed away during the night of Saturday, November 27, after overshooting a ledge while rappelling and becoming stranded overnight.

Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker have completed what the former called “one of the best bits of crack climbing” of his entire life. The climb is slated to appear in Reel Rock 16.

Nicolas Favresse, Sean Villanueva O'Driscoll, Aleksej Jaruta, and Jean-Louis Wertz explored a series of remote coastal spires, finding new terrain up to 5.13b.

The rock gym, home to Peru’s national climbing team, is building a free bouldering gym for underprivileged youth.

Luka Stražar and Nejc Marčič made an alpine-style ascent of the unclimbed northwest face on the 6,686-meter Nepalese peak.

The avalanche on Chimborazo (20,549 feet) is the deadliest Ecuadorian climbing accident in nearly 30 years. We speak with local guides about the incident, the growing trend of unlicensed and illegal guides, and what this means for the local industry.

The team of five repeated the 2,400-foot route over 11 days.

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Charles Dubouloz and Benjamin Védrines completed the first ascent of In the Shadow of Lies (WI5+ M5+ 90° ED) on the Himalayan peak.

Mason Boos, 25, passed away on Sunday, October 10 after a fall caused by loose rock while scrambling third class terrain.

A 20-member expedition team was caught in a massive avalanche on October 1. Four climbers are confirmed dead, with two others still missing.

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The Swiss alpinist finished his 10-year project August 15, soloing the North Face of the Petit Dru in one hour and 43 minutes.

Goris made the third ascent (and first female) of the granite line in The Needles on August 25th

He became the third person in the world to climb a proposed 9c (5.15d) with a repeat of Bibliographie, but later suggested 5.15c

Sexualized characters, drama, sparkles, jerks who take the sport way too seriously... “Iwa Kakeru!” is a sadistic blend of everything we love to hate about anime and climbing.

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Vitaliy Musiyenko connected two Grade VI ridges in the Sierra Nevada to create the 32-mile Goliath.

“Climbing video games” are (almost) always duds, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few epic climbing scenes here and there.

How one under-valued genre could make all the difference

The new route on a Himalayan peak was the hardest of high-altitude veteran Marek Holecek's life, and became a climb of epic proportions.

The former comp climber went outside and had his eyes opened on real rock. Now he's on a mission to climb every hard boulder in Colorado.

And not only was her ascent bold and quick, it was also the first female solo of the route

Ondra, Raboutou, Noguchi, Garnbret and Megos are household names, but lesser-known are the Olympic climbers from afield.

Many “firsts” have always been worth something, though, and many still are, particularly cases like Sabourin’s. That’s because there are two types of firsts that matter.

A core climber speaks out about what it's like to break barriers beyond climbing hard in the climbing community.

The all-star Japanese boulderer, 32, plans to make the Tokyo Olympics the final competition of her 16-year career.

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

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

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