There are 115 males and 79 females on the starting list of the Meiringen Boulder World Cup in the coming weekend. Some big names that are missing are Tomoa Narasaki, Kai Harada and Futaba Ito from Japan, Jongwon Chon and Chaeyo Seo from Korea, Sean McColl from Canada and Shauna Coxsey from UK. On In…

Andreas Kubin shares the story about Marcel "Matrix" Remy celebrating his 98th birthday by climbing in a new climbing gym in Satigny/Geneva together with his so…

The climbing community grows year by year and so does our impact on the environment. Every spring, thousands of climbers make their debut and sometimes they nee…

Stefano Ghisolfi, one of the best climbers in the world, reports on Insta that he has size 41 in regular shoes but only 36 in his La Sportiva Futura. Please ex…

Vertical-Life is hiring. As a Senior Developer you’ll develop software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with product owners, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; you’ll investigate problem areas following the software development lifecycle. Requirements • Unders…

Via Google Earth, you can pretty much see pictures of most houses and streets in the world. Now, this service will also include such pictures for hikers as well as climbers in order to get more people into nature. In a unique test, 8a has provided all GPS coordinates of our more than 5 500 crags to …

Here are the poll results, based on almost 1 400 unique answers, to the question What skill do you lack the most?27% Finger strength23% Endurance18% Flexibility17% Mental08% Technique6% Other (Power and Strength most mentioned) I started out as a junior national coach about 20 years ago and have bee…