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Janja Garnbret from Slovenia and Tomoa Narasaki from Japan were crowned Bouldering World Champions 2019 earlier today in Hachioji, Japan. Akiyo Noguchi and Jakob Schubert took silver, Shauna Coxsey and Yannick Flohé bronze.

Paraclimbing champion and talented athlete Lorenzo Major has passed away. This is a huge loss for the entire Paralympic community. Sandro Neri remembers his Italian teammate.

Austrian climber Anna Stöhr has redpointed two 8c’s at Arco, Italy. These are her hardest sport climbs to date after dominating bouldering competitions for over a decade.

Austrian climber Jakob Schubert has made the first repeat of Neanderthal, the 9b sports climb put up by Chris Sharma in 2009 at the Santa Linya in Spain.

On 2 November 2018 Stefan Scarperi repeated Action Directe 9a in Frankenjura. He is the third Italian to repeat the legendary route established by Wolfgang Güllich in 1991 after Gabriele Moroni and Stefano Carnati.

The last stage of the Lead World Cup 2018 took place in Xiamen in China last weekend and was won by Jessica Pilz and Domen Škofic. Janja Garnbret and Jakob Schubert won the Lead World Cup 2018, Jessica Pilz and...

Slovenia’s Janja Garnbret and Austria’s Jakob Schubert have won the Lead World Cup 2018, ahead of Jessica Pilz and Stefano Ghisolfi, thanks to their results at the penultimate stage that took place last weekend at Wujiang in China. The stage...

Czech climber Adam Ondra has freed the High Line at Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Graded 9a+, the 25-year-old has described this as called it 'one of my best first ascents ever'.

On Friday night at innsbruck in Austria Janja Garnbret from Slovenia was crowned Boulder World Champion. Akiyo Noguchi from Japan took silver, Staša Gejo from Serbia bronze. The men's competition was won on Saturday night by Japan's Kai Harada, ahead...

27-year-old Austrian athlete Jakob Schubert was crowned Lead World Champion 2018 this evening in innsbruck. Austria. Czech climber Adam Ondra took silver, Germany's Alexander Megos bronze.

This evening at innsbruck, Austria, Jessica Pilz won the Lead Climbing World Championships 2018. Janja Garnbret took silver, Jain Kim bronze.

Dutch climber Jorg Verhoeven talks about his ascent of the Peutérey Integral ridge on Mont Blanc, carried out with Martin Schidlowski from 13 - 15 July 2018.

On 24 August 2018 American climber Tom Frost died aged 81. Frost was one of the pioneering climbers and photographers during the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing.

Interview with Stefano Ghisolfi after his victory at Chamonix of the second stage of the Lead World Cup 2018.

Austrian athlete Anna Stöhr has officially announced her retirement for bouldering competitions.

Alpinism in Austria: David Lama has completed the Sagzahn-Verschneidung in the Valsertal with Peter Mühlburger. The mixed route up the Sagwand is circa 800 meters high and graded M6/A2.