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The report by Belgian alpinist Seán Villanueva O’Driscoll who this season has established two new rock climbs on the north face of El Mocho in the Cerro Torre massif in Patagonia: Chalten Sin Clecas (Chalten without tickmarks) with Mecha Rocamora and Chalten sin Chapas” (Chalten without bolts) with Matías Korten.

At the crag Lorünser Wändle in Austria Barbara Zangerl has made the first repeat of the 9a Sprengstoff, freed by Jacopo Larcher in November 2020.

The video of Seb Bouin's climbing some classic routes at Le Saussois, known as the birthplace of French sport climbing.

Running commentary by Adam Ondra of him repeating Victimas Perez, a 9a at Margalef in Spain first ascended in 2008 by Ramón Julián Puigblanque.

22-year-old Scottish climber Will Bosi has made the first ascent of King Capella at Siurana, Spain and has proposed the grade of 9b+.

On 24/03/2021 at Oliana in Spain 19-year-old German climber Martina Demmel onsighted the 8b+ Humildes pa casa and redponted the 8c+ Joe Blau.

Stefano Ghisolfi at the crag Padaro at Arco, Italy, has made the first ascent of Terapia d’urto while Alexander Megos at Saint Léger du Ventoux in France has established Et pour quelques dégaines de plus. Both sport climbs are graded 9a+.

Video portrait of 4 up-and-coming Austrian rock climbers: Eva Hammelmüller, Mattea Pötzi, Stefan Scherz and Nicolai Uznik.

39-year-old American sport climber Dave Graham has repeated First Ley 9a+ at Margalef in Spain.

Watch Adam Ondra and Alex Honnold discuss their sport climbing, big wall climbing and more.

Basque climber Iker Pou has made the first ascent of Guggenhell, at 9a+/b currently the hardest sport climb on the island of Mallorca.

Climbing video: Adam Ondra attempting El Toro Salvaje, a potential 9c sport climb at Margalef in Spain.

The International Federation of sport Climbing (IFSC) has announced the allocation of the remaining two quota places to Jongwon Chon and Chaehyun Seo of South Korea. The lineup of 40 athletes that will be competing in the historic debut of sport Climbing at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is now...

35-year-old Dutchman Jorg Verhoeven explains three of his most recent climbing projects

Climbing video: Adam Ondra making the first ascent of El Potro, a short and intense 9a sport climb at Margalef in Spain.

From 18 to 22 February 2021 the French alpinists Thomas Auvaro, Léo Billon, Jordi Noguere and Sébastien Ratel belonging to the Chamonix High Mountain Military Group have climbed BASE on the West Face of Petit Dru in the Mont Blanc massif. The route partially follows an attempt made by the...