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Molly Mitchell shares her journey to climb China Doll (5.14 R) while navigating generalized anxiety disorder.

Have you ever wondered if you actually have the skills to get yourself out of a sticky situation while multi-pitch climbing? If you haven’t, you probably should.

With 30-foot runouts above knotted slings common, the Elbe River Valley has long cultivated the perfect atmosphere for big, bold first ascents.

The Utah visionary opens up about his four decades on the rock, a return to his nemesis climb, the craft of photography, and the search for the next great thing.

Sitting at 7,500 feet in Hidalgo, Mineral has a temperate climate that makes for an ideal three-season bouldering area with 400 problems from V0 to V15.

When channeled constructively, anger can, in measured doses, provide sending energy and motivation.

No, you can no longer get a burn in real quick.

Since its founding in 2012, the ACSP has been facilitating field research into climate change’s effects on mountainous areas, and training a new generation of natural scientists.

All Turkish men between the ages of 20 and 41, are required to serve in the military, but many of the country's climbers are doing their best to delay or avoid military service.

Moby Grape, established in 1972 by Joe Cote and Roger Martin, is one of the best moderate trad climbs in the Northeast.

Epic climbing photos from the well-known Ten Sleep, Wyoming, and the lesser-known Willow River State Park in Wisconsin.

“I love Chicago,” Wesolek says of his current home. “[Yet] if I could be in the mountains all the time, I would as well. I want the best of both worlds.”

Five Ten has kept both comfort and performance in mind with their affordable new Kirigami, among the friendliest shoes to hit the market this year.

GSI Outdoors made its name with its efficient backpacking stoves and cookware, and the Selkirk is its first (brilliant) foray into the car-camping realm.

A proper midlayer is one you keep on all the time, be it approaching, belaying, climbing, etc. Patagonia’s new R1 Air Full-Zip Hoody delivers all these attributes in spades.

The Tundra is Yeti’s first cooler with wheels (made with solid polyurethane and paired with a foldable handle), and the durability is standout.

The C-Quence is light and hyper-mobile—you’ll barely notice it’s on. Arc’teryx accomplishes this with their Warp Strength Technology, which distributes weight well across the broad but thin (depth-wise) load-bearing surfaces.

If you like being hyper-organized with rest-day sundries, here’s your new compadre.

Read Matt Samet's Editor's Note and check out what's inside the Winter 2020 issue of Climbing Magazine, on newsstands now.

Learn how to: Make your own stick clip (several ways), boink easier, save weight while disturbing your alpine partner, and much, much more.

Our readers show off their latest training gear and find new uses for hexes.

Read the winning caption from our recent caption contest, along with 22 honorable mentions.

Inside Shanjean Lee and Mikey Schaefer's new 10-pitch 5.13+ on the East Face of Washington’s Liberty Bell

In 2019, Dakota Walz set out to climb 5,280 vertical feet of first ascents in the American Southwest.

From the 300-foot needle El Puro to the adjoining, massive hulk of El Pison, to the wildly overhanging La Visera, each of Riglos's towers offer a distinct but always unpredictable character.

Jimmy Webb would be the last person to tell you that he’s sent more V16s than almost any other American. Credit that humility—and the work ethic that earned him those ticks—to his Tennessee roots.

Three nonbinary climbers share their experiences and explain how we can all be better allies.

When it comes to changing the more cringe-inducing climbing route names, not quite everyone is in agreement.

"Even in 2020, I encounter climbers who cling to a 'right' and a 'wrong' way—'Oh, you’re doing it in poor style,' they’ll say, rarely stopping to examine their words."

Far from being a constant, appetite is impacted by a plethora of variables, including seasons. Here's how to adapt.

Epic climbing photos from Keyhole Canyon, Mount Katahdin, and the Skykomish Valley.

Nestled in the rolling northern Green Mountains, the spherical, 300-foot-tall Bolton Dome features some of the state’s best climbing.

"Spook Book at the Needles in Southern California is—for reasons I find difficult to define—one of the best routes I’ve ever climbed."

Many of the struggles, successes, and absurdities of climbing culture are universal. Mya Lixian Gosling illustrates these experiences in her strip Sketchy Beta.

The Theory felt like a combination of the Solution and the Futura—Solution-style big-toe bite married with Futura-style softness.

“Finally, a skinny rope I can trust,” said one tester of Edelrid’s new 8.9mm dynamic rope.

"The Bilby is an unconventional, high-tech headlamp I didn’t even know I needed."

In 2019, MoonClimbing came out with their third hold set, the near-perfect Masters 2019, which adds two wood sets to wood Set A from 2017.

Black Diamond’s first foray into sticky-rubber crack gloves has resulted in a hardwearing, low-profile glove that testers loved.

The updated Redline Strap is a radically downturned, asymmetrical beast made for gym climbing and steeps.

Read editor Matt Samet's note and see what's inside the latest issue of Climbing Magazine, on newsstands now.

Learn how to: setup rappels easily, buy cheap brushes, build efficient toprope anchors, and more!

Read the winning caption from our recent caption contest, along with 19 honorable mentions.

Our readers show off their mutant, bionic, perma-pumped climber forearms.

Katie Lambert journeys deep into the Sierra Nevada wilderness to decipher the cryptic lore of the remote wall.

A celebration of the people who find, clean, and equip moderate climbs at your favorite crags across America.

Over repeated trips to Paklenica, Croatia, one traveling climber finds love, loses it, then finds it again.

How this unassuming college student—and pedigreed super-climber—became the first American climber to qualify for the Olympics

The coastal boulders on Dover Island are privy to the whims of the ocean, which both exposes them and rips them from the shore.

Although the climbing grades on the Torment-Forbidden Traverse are low, the rewards of navigating this spindly ridge are high.