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Erwan Legrand, the 17-year-old son of climbing champion François Legrand, is putting in some excellent attempts on 'Bombé Bleu', the route bolted by Marc Le Menestrel in 1991 and still unrepeated.

Fay Manners and Solenne Piret have made the first ascent of 'Win Oumalou' (From the Shadows) on Jebel Inslif above Zaouia Ahansal close to Taghia in Morocco.

South Tyrolean climber Filip Schenk has redpointed 'Beginning' (9a+), completing all the hardest routes at the L'Eremo di San Paolo crag near Arco, Italy.

During her year as Slovenia's 'Godmother of Sport', Janja Garnbret exceeded all expectations by raising nearly €320,000 to support young underprivileged athletes.

Russian mountaineer Alexander Odintsov has been named as 2025 recipient of the Piolets d'Or Carrière. He will receive the 17th Walter Bonatti - Piolets d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award at the international festival in San Martino di Castrozza (Dolomites, Italy) in December, and follows in the footsteps of Walter Bonatti, Reinhold...

Christian Core tells the story behind the photo he considers his greatest ever: a shot of Darius Rapa on 'Es Pontas' in Mallorca, Spain.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) has announced the calendar of events for the 2026 Climbing and Para Climbing season.

26-year-old Slovenian climber Janja Garnbret has made a flash ascent of 'Pure Dreaming' (8c+/9a) at Arco, Italy. This is probably the hardest-ever flash by a female climber to date.

19-year-old Darius Rapa has repeated 'Es Pontas', Chris Sharma's deep water solo masterpiece off the island of Mallorca in Spain

Watch specialist Pete Whittaker introduce Janja Garnbret to the art of crack climbing.

Norwegian climber Leo Ketil Bøe has climbed his hardest route to date, 'Change' at Flatanger in Norway. Put up by Adam Ondra in 2012, it is considered the world's first 9b+.

The Lead World Cup 2025 was won yesterday at Koper in Slovenia by Erin McNeice and Alberto Ginés López. The decisive final stage was won by Janja Garnbret and Sorato Anraku.

Slovenia's Janja Garnbret has climbed 100 routes in 24-hours to raise over €60,000 for underprivileged children in sports.

The 2025 IFSC Youth World Championship began in Helsinki, Finland today and will run to o 3 August.

The fifth and penultimate stage of the Lead World Cup 2025 takes place in Madrid today and tomorrow. This is the first time ever that a leg takes place in the Spanish capital.

The video of the 2016 Italian-Belgian expedition to the Stewart valley on Baffin Island in Canada comprised of Matteo Della Bordella, Matteo De Zaiacomo, Luca Schiera, Nicolas Favresse and Sean Villanueva.