Jonathan Siegrist

How should we think about grades? Do they even matter? What are the formulas and rules we should consider? Let’s discuss.

Siegrist has an encyclopedic familiarity with America’s hardest routes; he’s skeptical about the recent upgrade to 5.15b.

Watching Siegrist climb, it’s pretty clear why he thinks most climbers do “too much training and not enough practice.”

It’s Siegrist’s fifth 5.15 in 2022.

"The bottom line is that climbing your best and pushing yourself are sometimes uncomfortable."

How Jonathan Siegrist, possibly the most prolific sport climber in the United States, trained his anti-style and went from a vertical crimp specialist to a steep cave crusher.

In between trips to Spain and France, Jonathan Siegrist found time to finish off his local project, now called "Event Horizon." Rumors have called it the hardest route in the United States. We asked Siegrist about it.

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In a five-week period, Jonathan Siegrist sent two 5.15a's, one 5.14d/5.15a, and two 5.14d's. It was the best trip of his life—but it wasn’t what he’d planned.

We all seem to have some notion, likely passed on by a mentor or seen in a climbing video, of how long to rest between boulder problems or pitches, especially at max effort. But do these “tried and true” rules really hold up? And could we be resting smarter?

Climbing caught up with Jonathan Siegrist to talk about his sends, his training tips, and the importance of downgrading.

Almost every climber has ambitions, but often we simply don’t know how to move forward or at what pace—and so, perhaps, we plateau. Fortunately, there are five simple ways to track your goals and encourage steady progress.

Is it true that the most effective way to improve your climbing is to simply climb? Yes. At least up to a certain point.

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.

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Siegrist nails down the first ascents of two of the hardest routes in Clear Light Cave

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Breaking barriers: What Jonathan Siegrist learned from sending Biographie

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