Watch Maureen Beck Send 5.12 With One Hand and Tons of Determination
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Five One-Hour Workouts to Fit Your Frantic Schedule
In cherry picking from a huge list of potential sessions, go for the ones that will deliver the most bang for your buck.
Weekend Whipper: Here’s Why You Should Close Your Legs When You Whip
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Can’t Make a Live Show of Warren Miller’s ‘Winter Starts Now’? We Have a Solution
Outside+ members can now stream this year's film from the comfort of their couch.
Weekend Whipper: Here’s What Happens When You Heel Hook Over the Rope
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Film: Watch the World’s Greatest Free Soloist Find His Physical Limit in “Sufferfest”
850 Miles of hiking and biking for 15 free solos … What could possibly go wrong?
Sufferfest
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Deal of the Week: Edelrid
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Watch Brad Gobright, Free Soloing’s Anti-Alex Honnold, in Cedar Wright’s ‘Safety Third’
Did Brad Gobright accomplish more while receiving less than any climber, ever?
Weekend Whipper: Imagine This, Rope Unclips Itself as Climber Leads
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Deal of the Week: Discounts on Ocun
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Weekend Whipper: 10-Year-Old Skips Clips, Goes for the Ride of His Life
"He had enough power left to pull within a move or two of the easier terrain but eventually his fingers gave out and he took the 50-foot ride."
Watch Sasha DiGiulian Conquer Monsters … And Three of Canada’s Toughest Walls
"The Trilogy" features one of climbing’s strongest personalities at her most vulnerable.
The Trilogy
Sasha DiGiulian, set out to become the first woman and second person in history to complete the Rocky Mountain Trilogy, a compilation of three of the hardest 5.14 big walls in the Canadian Rockies.
Deal of the Week: Climbing Footwear
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Weekend Whipper: Flash Attempt + Overhanging Ringlocks = Indian Creek Backslapper
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Deal of the Week: The Alpine
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Weekend Whipper: Skipping Bolts and Ripping Cams on Bolted 5.13
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Queen Maud Land
Six of the world's leading climbers take on one of the world’s last great climbing frontiers: the frozen towers of Antarctica.
Building a Home Wall: A 3-Part Guide
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Deal of the Week: Camping Gear
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That Time Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Alex Honnold Went to Antarctica
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Weekend Whipper: Near Miss With Rockfall While Clipping
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Monday Gear Hacks: Make a Hand-Jam Machine, an Easier Device Thread, Gear Marker and More
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Deal of the Week: Outdoor Apparel
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Your Outside+ Membership Just Got a Whole Lot Cooler
Outside TV and its 600+ hours of adventure films and television shows is now included with Outside+
Ten Articles To Keep You Climbing As You Age
We gathered ten of the best articles about age published in Rock and Ice and Climbing in the last few years. Together, they can help you stay engaged with the sport well into your golden years.
Weekend Whipper: Really Putting the Gear to the Test on 5.13 R
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Deal of the Week: Sport Craggin’
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Weekend Whipper: Too Pumped to Place Gear, He’s In For a Head-Smacking Fall
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Deal of the Week: Rocktober
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Monday Climbing Gear Hacks: Cheap Rope Bucket, Cam Speed Draw and More
These reader submitted tips solve common climbing problems, or just make climbing a bit easier.
Weekend Whipper: We Haven’t Seen This Dance Move Before
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Deal of the Week: Discounted Packs for Cragging, Summit Pushes, and Getting Remote
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7 (Lucky Number!) Climbing Hacks
From making a cheaper stick clip to peeing in a bag, our readers got you covered.
Weekend Whipper: Elvis Leg + Indecision = Upside-Down Ground Fall
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Deal of the Week: Take Advantage of the Temps
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8 Climbing Hacks For Cheating The Game
From a way to get cheap sunglasses, to improving the cordalette, our readers have you covered with these tips.
Weekend Whipper: Even Crag Bystanders Can Take the Whip
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Video: Nalle Hukkataival Establishes Gorgeous 5.14 Deep Water Solo
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6 Climbing Hacks That Cost Nothing
From better boinking to a cleaner way to fill your chalk bag, savor these tips from climbers like you.
Video: Michaela Kiersch on the First Female Ascent of America’s First 5.14b
When it was first climbed by Boone Speed in 1994, roughly four months before Kiersch was born, Super Tweak was the hardest route in America established by an American.
Weekend Whipper: A Cam-Ripping Close Call in Norway
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Deal of the Week: Multi-Pitch Climbing
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Weekend Whipper: When You Have One Piece of Gear Left, Don’t Drop it Into the Sea
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Deal of the Week: Boulders, Big Walls, Basecamp
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VIDEO: “Is This a Dream?” Bayes Wilder, 10, Will Have You Smiling All Day (He Also Sends 5.14)
Bayes Wilder begins the climb with intricate sequencing and a comical whimper or two, protesting, "Ow, that hurts," upon reaching a knobby little prow hold.
Not Your Basic Beta Video: Watch Aidan Roberts On V13 FAs in The Lake District
An aesthetic film about Aidan Roberts putting up new hard lines in the Lake District—and repeating some classics.
Weekend Whipper: Now THAT’S a “Practice” Fall!
Do you want to be more comfortable taking lead falls? Mateusz Haładaj shows us one way to expedite the process...
Video: Shawn Raboutou on the FA of “Big Z” (V16)
It's a tension line with toehooks and sidepulls, and it sure looks pretty hard.
Deal of the Week: Training and Trying Hard
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VIDEO: Juliet Campbell, Age 11, Styles Her First 5.13b
A short film about the daughter of two high-level climbers having a great day outdoors.
Weekend Whipper: Climbing Editor Eats It When Hold Snaps
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VIDEO: Wait… So Why Exactly Do You Feel Stronger When You’re Crimping?
The Curious Doctor has released a video about how we use (or fail to use) biomechanics to our advantage when climbing.
Deal of the Week: Packs, Bags, and More
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Video: Babsi Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher Rage Up the Eiger’s Hardest Route In a Day
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Weekend Whipper: Ground Up Highballing, Craters Onto Spotters
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Sport-Climbing’s Medal Competition for Men Begins Tonight, Are You Ready?
Don't know who will be competing tonight? Here's the list.
Smokin’ Deals to Keep You Climbing Strong All Summer
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Behind the Olympic Curtain: Photo Gallery of the Final Training Session
Our on site photographers Jon Glassberg and Jess Talley captured climbing's Olympians before they take the big stage.
Video: Olympic Sport Climbing Silver Medalist Nathaniel Coleman
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Weekend Whipper: Head Smacking Fall, Helmet Likely Saved His Life
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Video: “Babsi” Zangerl Cranks Greenspit 5.14 Trad for First Female Ascent
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Avalanche on K2 Claims Famed Scottish Mountaineer Rick Allen
Allen was attempting a new route on K2’s southeast face
Video Exclusive: How Olympian Kyra Condie Deals With High Level Pressure
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Deal of the Week: Camping Gear
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Video: US Olympic Head Coach Josh Larson On the “Opportunity of a Lifetime”
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Weekend Whipper: “I’m Really Scared” Blown Onsight on Runout 5.12
A botched sequence, a foothold missed, and a long fall over opposed nuts!
Deal of the Week: Sport Cragging
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Watch Babsi Send 5.14d Before It Gets Quarried Into Building Blocks
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Weekend Whipper: Giant Fall From … Where?
Izzy Moore of Costa Rica drops clear out of the frame. It is a massive fall (guessing 40 feet), and at the end his feet are not that much higher than the head of a person on the ground.
VIDEO: Olympians Splat, Too! And Pick Back Up …
The problem is so burly. Maddening. But Shauna Coxsey can't "let this one get away."
Deal of the Week: Alpine Rock Gear
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Weekend Whipper: Sharma Takes Huge Fall. Cameraman Asks If He’s O.K.
You wouldn't want to take this fall. Those falls. So many falls into a roiling sea.
VIDEO: Molly Thompson-Smith Outwits Routesetters
"Beta breaker," Molly Thompson-Smith writes on Instagram. "When they say jump, I say… no thanks?"
Weekend Whipper: Huge Fall in the Czech Republic Becomes Religious Experience
"Much harder than it looks." Daniel Krolop paws at the features in search of a good hold, but eventually ... "First ascents are tough here."
PreGames Interview: Kyra Condie and Nathaniel Coleman on Plusses / Minuses, Games Vs. World Cup, and How These Olympics Are Different
Says Condie: “I’ve always said that my superpower in climbing is being able to separate my self-worth from my climbing ability."
Gear Deals of the Week: 4th of July Climbing Fireworks
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Grounder! Extremely Lucky—Must Have a Guardian Angel
He had done the route before. Why worry? He slung in a nut, expecting to cruise the crux and then place a good #3 cam. Uh-oh, big mistake ...