Advertorial: Focus on the essentials! The POCKET is a warm-up and training tool at once! The mini hangboard offers a 15mm and 20mm edge and can be loaded with up to 300kg. With a size of 110 × 65 × 30 mm, the hangboard can be stowed in any trouser pocket and weighs just 130g. Learn more ✅ FAIR, SOC…
Pierre Marzullo sent Supercrackinette (9a+) last November. "A dream came true today 🥹 Didn’t have the words for what I’m feeling right now. I just know that I want to try harder stuff, spent more time on it, and repeat that all my life."
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Advertorial: Focus on the essentials! The POCKET is a warm-up and training tool at once! The mini hangboard offers a 15mm and 20mm edge and can be loaded with up to 300kg. With a size of 110 × 65 × 30 mm, the hangboard can be stowed in any trouser pocket and weighs just 130g. Learn more ✅ FAIR, SOC…
Pierre Marzullo sent Supercrackinette (9a+) last November. "A dream came true today 🥹 Didn’t have the words for what I’m feeling right now. I just know that I want to try harder stuff, spent more time on it, and repeat that all my life."
It's now confirmed: As part of the Vertical-Life Climb to Paris Challenge powered by Mammut, the grand prize will be a day of climbing with none other than Adam Ondra! The challenge is already up and running, with climbers from around the globe logging their ascents. To date, more …
Toby Roberts, who was first in the semifinal, won the final on countback over Taisei Homma in Wujiang. The bronze was awarded to Sorato Anraku who was second in…
Sam Watson broke the Speed World Record twice in the Wujiang qualification with 4.85 and 4.79 respectively. In order to make it to the Top-16, 5.25 was needed w…
Michaela Kirsch repeated Chris Sharma’s classic five-star climb, Era Vella (9a) at Margalef, last November, after trying it for roughly seven sessions.
Tomoa Narasaki won his seventh Boulder World Cup. The runner-up was Sorato Anraku, the overall WC winner in both Lead and Boulder in 2023. Narasaki won by flash…
Janja Garnbret won all three rounds in Kequiao and in the final she only needed five attempts, including a foot slip on the slab, to do all four boulders and wi…
Roman Alexander Hoffman sent Thermonuclear Fusion (9a+) in wedderburn in 2022. ”I often boulder by myself maybe 70% of the time. Only my wife & one good friend knew about the send of "Thermonuclear Fusion" until I published it last week.”Can you tell us more about the boulder/route and the proce…
Cody Roth, who at age 19 made it to a WC final and last year did three routes graded 8c+/9a to 9a, has set a new onsight personal best with I Sorci Verdi 8b/8b+…
Jun Shibanuma is the second Japanese climber, after Yuta Imaizumi, that we've recently reported on who has done five 8C's, including Hydrangea (8C) in Shiobara and Byakudo (8C) in Horai. What is your climbing background? I got to know about free climbing when I was a high school student. I was ver…