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Is speed climbing just a fringe activity whose glory days (the X Games) are long behind it? Reel Rock filmmaker Zachary Barr takes an in-depth look.

Is speed climbing just a a fringe activity whose glory days (the X Games) are long behind it? Reel Rock filmmaker Zachary Barr takes an in-depth look.

According to Niky Ceria, “The ideal line [is located] not too far from the water but also not too close to it.”

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McNeill devoted nearly 50 days to the climb before linking the six-move crux and taking it to the top.

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850 Miles of hiking and biking for 15 free solos … What could possibly go wrong?

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Did Brad Gobright accomplish more while receiving less than any climber, ever?

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"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."

"The Trilogy" features one of climbing’s strongest personalities at her most vulnerable.

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.

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Six of the world's leading climbers take on one of the world’s last great climbing frontiers: the frozen towers of Antarctica.

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A masterclass in why you should rehearse your topouts

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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.

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Trying mini-projects, routes that will take you a few days instead of a few weeks, replicate the long-term project cycle in a compressed time period, simulating the mental and emotional components of limit redpointing.

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DiGiulian posted on Instagram, "Thank you, Darek, for the incredible climb, I hope you know the positive impact you had on the climbing community."

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.

An aesthetic film about Aidan Roberts putting up new hard lines in the Lake District—and repeating some classics.

Do you want to be more comfortable taking lead falls? Mateusz Haładaj shows us one way to expedite the process...

It's a tension line with toehooks and sidepulls, and it sure looks pretty hard.

A short film about the daughter of two high-level climbers having a great day outdoors.

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The Curious Doctor has released a video about how we use (or fail to use) biomechanics to our advantage when climbing.

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We caught up with filmmaker Austin Siadak to talk soloing, climbing Torre Egger with Marc, and his favorite part of The Alpinist.

Andrew Alexander King hopes not just to climb the 14 summits, but to bring diversity into the outdoors.

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Follow as we spend a day with BD athlete Alex Honnold as he tries his latest "mini" project.

A botched sequence, a foothold missed, and a long fall over opposed nuts!

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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.

The problem is so burly. Maddening. But Shauna Coxsey can't "let this one get away."

The zebra-striped boulders of Kandertal, Switzerland provide an aesthetic canvas to pull hard

You wouldn't want to take this fall. Those falls. So many falls into a roiling sea.

When the rest of the press moved to the other side of the stage, our then website editor stayed right where he was for the clear shot, and caught the flying iron cross.

"Beta breaker," Molly Thompson-Smith writes on Instagram. "When they say jump, I say… no thanks?"

"Much harder than it looks." Daniel Krolop paws at the features in search of a good hold, but eventually ... "First ascents are tough here."

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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 ...

Phillip Bay and Brian Degenhardt were on top of Higher Cathedral Spire when they saw this fearsome act of nature. If you take one thing from the article to which this post is related, it is that rockfall on El Cap and elsewhere is continual—take, and wear, your helmet.

Doing the climb was a three-month journey in the desert, one that took complete and utter dedication.

On 8 Ounces to Freedom, she must pull the pivot around an initial high heel-toe, or else. Then: a study in progress by inches.

He places a high foothold that, as he stretches upward, pops. He resets, latches the target hold. But when tries to move his other hand ...

Herson, with a background in the Valley as well as sport and comp climbing, is "really psyched to try more hard sport climbs!"

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Weekend Whipper shows an upside-down fall from a desert roof, and why it's more important to wear a helmet than a shirt.

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The 20-year-old has done some 50 5.14s. See him climb the route that was a whole "next level" in difficulty.