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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.

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A good spot is often taken for granted, but spotters are unsung heroes, our invisible ropes when our feet leave the ground

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Emiliyan Kolevski climbs Opa Opa, an 8c (5.14b) in Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria.

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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Between the 2021 Salt Lake City World Cups—at the first of which Brooke made her first World Cup podium—she also makes a casual flash of Euro Trash (V12/8A+).

Ben Madrid’s debut film acknowledges the struggles of 2020 while still remaining hopeful.

Video replay of the Boulder World Cup in Salt Lake City. Natalia Grossman takes the gold. Brooke Raboutou wins bronze.

Jimmy Webb, Davin Bagonas, Daniel Woods and Keenan Takahashi establishing incredible lines deep in the Grand Tetons.

Writes filmmaker Cam Maier, "Most Denver area climbers have heard of what happened to Minko Nikolov, but when I caught him at the gym he was kind enough to tell me his incredible story."

Even if he were wearing a helmet, this would've hurt.

Alex Honnold ascends 1,000 feet of sheer rock to the top of the tepui, a remote “island in the sky” deep in the Amazon jungle.

In October 2020, Jeff and Priti Wright made the first ascent of K6 Central (7,100 meters) in Pakistan's Karakoram Range.

Didier Berthod is a crack climbing legend and was an inspiration to us and many back in the early 2000s.

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Usually the external dangers for climbers are loose rocks and the like. But turns out thorn bushes have it out for us, too.

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Most climbers go their whole lives without bouldering double digits. Robinson has sent thousands.

Patagonia may be known for its alpine routes, but the granite blocs scattered around El Chaltén and Torres del Paine National Park have caught the eye of many intrepid climbers. For BD Athlete Nalle Hukkataival, the allure of the boulders was enticing enough to dedicate a trip to Patagonia to sample and explore the blocs below the walls.

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Who says toprope whips can't be epic?

Bronwyn Hodgins and Julien Bourassa-Moreau get creative on "Master Blaster," a devious roof crack in in Zion, Utah.

Jacopo Larcher and James Pearson having an honest talk about "Tribe," a trad climb first done by climber Jacopo Larcher last year.

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Some would say dynoing near the top of a highball is a bad idea. Some would also say screw that and huck for it anyway, as our brave whippee did this week.

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Meet Sudha, an ice climber who found unconditional love in the mountains of New York.

The documentary follows route setter Tobi Diedler on a trip to Singapore, where he had the privilege of setting the biggest IFSC-listed bouldering competition in Southeast Asia "SMU GRAVIVAL." It explores the life and work of a route setter in general, but also the arguably absurd scenario of someone being flown around the globe to mount wooden boxes and plastic holds on manmade walls.

Meet Brittany Goris: professional climber, watermelon whippee, short-short enthusiast, and most likely to steal longest road from you in settlers of Catan. Oh, and she recently became the ninth woman to climb 5.14 trad when she sent East Coast Fist Bump in Arizona. NBD.

This is a short film about an extraordinary young woman called Pip.

Margo Hayes, normally known for her sport climbing, gets high on a bloc in Joe's Valley, Utah.

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This Weekend Whipper serves up a double whammy of bone-cracking gnarliness.

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The Cuban government still does not recognize climbing as an official sport, so climbers must operate under the radar.

Watch a 27-minute conversation between two of the greatest living climbers.

"And that's why you wear a helmet!" the kid belaying in this clip exclaims after getting beaned by some rockfall. Helmet up folks!

In this video, Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker tie a hand crack to a car to find out.

In trying to pull off the "Crime of the Century," a classic 5.11c finger crack in Squamish, this climber gets caught red handed and takes a big fall.

Kimber Cross is an adaptive athlete and National Board Certified teacher from Tacoma, Washington. She was born without fingers on her right hand and uses modifications and adaptations throughout her life as an athlete.

Tristan Chen puts in work on the V13 highball "Takes A Village"—for some reason also known as "Trout of This World"—in the Gold Bar Boulders, Washington

Great video from the folks over at Lattice Training. The one-arm pull up might not be a crucial climbing skill, but it's a helluva good party trick!

Said Max Donovan, "I was lucky to walk away with scrapes and we are all grateful that this was a learning experience and not a tragedy."

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Dylan Soin is a young climber from Australia with a HUGE amount of talent.

Join Jorg Verhoeven working on some of the hardest route climbing projects around his hometown Innsbruck, Austria, while he explains the route details and his quest to find his ultimate project, "The Flame."

This problem takes the phrase "dime edge" to a whole new level.