After two climbers fell while unroped at The Spot in Louisville, Colorado, the gym pulled its auto-belays for two weeks, even ...

About our reporting: For this story, we interviewed a volunteer with Lander Search and Rescue and one of the two climbers involved in the incident. We also spoke with three experts on the use of ...

This is the second article of our Anchor Analysis series, where one of Climbing’s anchor nerds critiques a reader-submitted anchor. Have one you’d like us to evaluate? Submit it here. One of the best ...

I’ve spent most of my climbing career preaching the dirtbag lifestyle. I lived in an SUV for a year and then in a van for six. I bought all my gear used on Mountain Project and prided myself on a ...

Amity Martin talks 50 days in the Wind River Range, establishing the first ascent of its new hardest route.

Maya is editor-in-chief of Climbing Magazine. She's covered the outdoors, travel, the environment, and food for 15+ years, and is the author of four Moon travel guides to Utah. Even though she would ...

“I’m going to the moon!” shouted Joey on camera, pushing off from the wall. Typically, when climbing records are broken, Climbing reporters like me are quick to celebrate and share the details. But ...

About a year ago, I heard about a “barefoot” climbing shoe that purported to be a boon on slab and comfortable beyond any climber’s wildest dreams. Launched toward the end of 2023, the Saltic Eliot ...

A 30-year-old woman from Grand Junction, Colorado, is in critical condition after a fall and dramatic rescue which occurred on Monday, September 11, on The Great White Wall (IV 5.10d; 1,300ft) in the ...

Over the past several months, as the specifics of how climbing will work at the 2020 Olympics have come into focus, members on the American national team have been hard at work training the requisite ...

Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Apex, which is now streaming on Netflix. In Apex, Charlize Theron plays a climber named Sasha who quits the sport after a big wall accident. Taron ...

In a sense, it’s the core of our sport: the crux. It’s the hardest moves on a climb, the moment of truth, and the split-second where you launch from one timeline into the next. In our experience, the ...