Climbing News

ukclimbing — The GB Bouldering team climbed exceptionally well last weekend at the Innsbruck world cup. Three team members made the finals, and Shauna Coxsey came a fantastic second place.

climbing.about — Add four more deaths to the 225+ climbers that have died on Mount Everest and another 150 to the 3,700+ that have summitted it. This past weekend a couple hundred people attempted to reach the summit of the highest mountain in the world and 150 succeeded during the first good...

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ukclimbing — Said Belhaj, from Sweden, has made what should be the 4th ascent of Pierre Soulé's Guerre de nerfs, 9a, at La Verrière in the French Ariège region. According to Said, the route can be described as a hard 8c followed by an 8b/+, with the hardest single move being a big...

climbing — 5/18/12 - Colorado's Eldorado Canyon, one of the centers of free climbing in the 1970s, rarely makes national news these days.

ukclimbing — German climber living in Switzerland, Pirmin Bertle recently managed to make the first ascents of two 9a's in 75 minutes at his local crag Charmay, Switzerland. You would think this means it must be two variations of the same route, but as it turns out, even though Chromosome X and Chromosome...

ukclimbing — Scottish trad, sport and winter climber Dave MacLeod has just climbed the Daniel Woods Font 8C Mystic Stylez in Magic Wood, Switzerland. This ascent follows on from his recent ascents of other hard Swiss boulder problems; Conquistador Direct 8B/+, and New Base Line 8B+. Dave has written his ascent up...

climbing.about — The Himalayan Mountains in central Asia and Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the range and in the world, is one of the front lines for global warming in the world. Most climate scientists agree that the Himalayas, sometimes called the Third Pole because the range boasts the world's largest...

ukclimbing — On April 7th Robert Jasper, Ralf Gantzhorn and Jorg Heller climbed the west ridge of Monte Giordano in Tierra del Fuego's Cordillera Darwin. They christened the mountain "the Shark's Fin after the shape of the west ridge. The ascent was part of a 6 week expedition to this incredibly remote area...

ukclimbing — Two videos this week - a great film about ice climbing in Norway and a short clip of Sasha DiGiulian on her second 9a.

ukclimbing — Following a number of climbing parties being found in areas of the Gorge that are outside of the climbing access agreement for this time of year, the BMC has been contacted by the landowner, Cheddar Coves & Gorge, who are concerned that climbers are not taking the...

ukclimbing — Here's a video from back in February/March, when Paul Robinson visited the Iberian peninsula. After spending some time at Sintra, Portugal, he headed to the mecca of steep sandstone bouldering, Albarracín some 100km east of Barcelona. During his 10 or so days there, he managed to do 3 8B's a number...

ukclimbing — This morning, 25 April, Brett Lowell posted on Facebook, Adam Ondra had basically onsighted a 9a at Oliana. Obviously, this caught my attention, so I asked Adam about it. Here's what he says: I did this link-up called Joe-cita [9a] first go. The first part of Joe Blau, before it joins...