German climber Alexander Megos, at the ripe old age of 19, has made the world’s first 5.14d onsight with an ascent of Estado Crítico in Siurana, Spain. Last year, Adam Ondra made headlines with onsights of hard routes in the Red River Gorge, previously considered to be 5.14d (Pure Imagination, The Golden Ticket — he [ more... ]

The new bid to make climbing one of the Olympic sports in the 2020 Games will call for competitors to master three events: bouldering, sport, and speed. This new direction is reportedly coming from feedback from the International Olympic Committee, but climbing will still have a long road to the games as six other sports [ more... ]

A Rab-sponsored crew explores to the fjords of Norway over a couple seasons of ice climbing in this trailer for the film The Pursuit. It’s hard to find a more picturesque place to climb, but there are two things to keep in mind for this video: Ice climbing happens in winter, and during the Norwegian winter it’s rainy and dark. You can begin to understand why after two years, they didn’t end up with a better stockpile of footage.

It was probably only a matter of time before Google’s “mountain enthusiast teams” released what is definitely not Street View: It’s 360-degree views from some of the world’s highest mountains. The teams — which included four to seven people, depending upon the trip — used a lightweight tripod and digital camera with a fisheye lens [ more... ]

If you want to climb the world’s tallest mountain in fast alpine style, which Spaniard Alex Txikon plans to do this summer, it helps to warm up on something at least as brutal, like Pakistan’s Laila Peak in the Karakorum range. Txikon and partner Jose Manuel Fernandez knocked it off a few weeks ago, the [ more... ]

Whether you’re a climber or just an outdoor athlete you may be able to run an ultra, or ski a double black…but pull-ups? Engineer (and climber) Kyle Hill argues that the physics of the pull-up indicate that not only can you train for it, but women, who often say they don’t have the upper body [ more... ]

Ten-year-old Jonathan Hörst has climbed a 5.14a route in Kentucky called God’s Own Stone. It is unclear whether the name of the route is ironic or not since it’s in Kentucky. Hörst is the latest child prodigy to climb extraordinarily difficult grades that are well over his age. Hey parents, what happened to forcing your [ more... ]

More details are coming out regarding the descent from the first winter ascent of Pakistan’s Broad Peak by a Polish team, but there’s still no trace of Tomasz Kowalski and Maciej Berbeka, who were exhausted and trailed the other two summiters, Adam Bielecki and Artur Małek, by a considerable margin. The two took between seven [ more... ]

Forget the fact that Jim Donini will turn 70 this July and George Lowe will be 69 in August. These two climbers have seen and done pretty much everything you can. Now they’d like to climb El Cap’s Nose in a single day in May. Both have done the Nose before, along with other El [ more... ]

Climber Mike Doyle had a scary moment on a sport route in the Virgin River Gorge in Arizona. He skipped a bolt, lost his footing, and took what would have been a very manageable fall. Then the sling holding his clip popped and he ended up 10 feet from the ground after starting out from [ more... ]