894 News found

South Korean climber Sung Su Lee has repeated Dreamcatcher (9a) in Squamish, Canada.

Following a record-breaking season, Gelje Sherpa has published a series of proposals to make climbing Everest safer. By Alessandro Filippini.

On 6 June 2026 Janja Garnbret made the first female ascent of 'Bibliographie' (9b+) at Céüse in France. In doing so the 27-year-old Slovenian has become only the second woman in the world to climb 9b+, after Brooke Raboutou sent 'Excalibur' at Arco in April 2025.

From 5 - 9 March 2026 Japanese climbers Kosuke Kawachi, Toru Nakajima and Yudai Suzuki, made the first ascent of 'Echoes in the Dark' (800m, 7a, A3, X) on Cerro Cota, Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile.

18-year-old Josef Sindel from the Czech Republic has climbed his first 9b, 'Clash of the Titans' at Götterwandl in Austria.

The Brussels climbing gym Le camp de base announced it would not host the final stage of the World Climbing Europe Youth Series, due to the absence of a clear governance framework for Israeli national representation, given ongoing international legal proceedings against Israel.

American climber Noah Wheeler has repeated Burden of Dreams at Lappnor in Finland. Established by Nalle Hukkataival in 2016, this was the first ever boulder problem in the world to be graded 9A.

British climber Franco Cookson has made the first ascent of 'But Nothing Is Lost' at Ben Loyal in northern Scotland. Cookson has suggested E12 7a and, if the difficulty is confirmed, this would be the first of its grade in the United Kingdom.

American climber Michaela Kiersch has made the first female ascent of 'Dolby Surround' in the Zillertal valley in Austria. The 31-year-old has suggested an upgrade to 9a+ after a hold broke.

Cleaning a sport climb with dubious lower-offs, or retreating from a route with questionable protection, can sometimes be dangerous. UIAA mountain guide Jan Schneider from Germany illustrates a technique using a Prusik loop that increases safety while retrieving climbing gear.

Canadian climber Will Stanhope has died as a result of a climbing accident in Squamish, British Columbia. Aged 39, the certified mountain guide was regarded as one of North America's leading rock climbers.

French climber Laura Pineau reports on her latest adventure: climbing 100 multi-pitch routes in Provence in under 50 days with Elsa Ponzo. Calanques, Verdon, Dentelles de Montmirail, Cap Canaille, Destel, Sainte-Victoire... 100 climbs, 681 pitches and a total of 17,765 vertical meters in 43 days.

Baltazar Calera, Joaquin Guglielmetti, Santiago Guglielmetti and Matías Tapia Artigas have completed the first ascent of 'Ira de Gugal' on Punta Zanzi in Chile.

Czech climber Jana Švecová has made the first ascent of 'Tokyo Drift' at the crag Lidomorna in Moravský Kras, Czech Republic. The suggested grade is 8C and, if confirmed, along with her 'Nova' this becomes the hardest boulder problem ever freed by a female climber.

A 60-year-old climber from the Czech Republic perished on Friday 27 March 2026 following a fall on the island of Kalymnos in Greece. The exact circumstances of the accident are still under investigation by the relevant authorities but preliminary reports indicate bolt failure was the cause of the fall.

Two years after the first expedition to Oman, the La Venta Geographic Explorations Association has returned to the mountains of Dhofar to explore Qanaf Cave in the depths of the Jabal Samḥān desert plateau. The report by Luca Imperio and Tullio Bernabei.