18-year-old Erin Sterkenburg will represent South Africa in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics alongside teammate Chris Cosser.
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18-year-old Erin Sterkenburg will represent South Africa in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics alongside teammate Chris Cosser.
Polish climber and skier Andrzej Bargiel accomplished the first ascent and ski descent of Yawash Sar II on April 30.
This South African climber and his teammate Erin Sterkenburg are the only Olympic climbers from the African continent.
The Spanish climber sent the route in 2013, proposing 9a (5.14d) at the time.
Seattle’s Vertical World climbing gym is fighting a $1,000,000 lawsuit brought by an injured gym member, who allegedly fell off an auto-belay route after failing to fully clip in.
When Darrin Reay found three sport lines had been bolted over ancient rock art in Moab last weekend, he promptly removed the bolts. Climbing reached out to chat with Reay about the incident.
The 23-year-old Frenchman has ticked the second ascent of Simon Lorenzi’s proposed V17 in the Font, suggesting a slight downgrade to V16.
Yosemite National Park has announced plans to set up an extensive network of auto belays on the iconic big wall, beginning with a series of auto belays protecting the Nose.
A handful of American private entities and government agencies, including NASA and Space-X, have announced plans to build a climbing wall on the moon.
Maciek Ciesielski, Kacper Tekieli and Piotr Sułowski have completed one of the most notorious alpine linkups in Poland in a 43-hour winter blitz.
The Climbing Wall Association’s “Inside Voices” is a marketing campaign designed to give climbing gyms tools to stay afloat.
The duo climbed a new route, christened La Chaltenense last Wednesday on Cerro Chaltén (Fitz Roy) in Argentine Patagonia.
The German climber is selling t-shirts emblazoned with his famous #CarrotsForPower slogan, with all proceeds donated to a different NGO each month.
High-altitude workers have long been subject to hazardous work conditions and practices. With their new Mountain Worker Initiative, the UIAA hopes to help the situation.
Gym Climber reached out to Chelsea Rude, a climbing coach who recently founded the nonprofit “She Sends Collective” to ask her some questions about the project.
The first 2021 World Cup will go ahead in Meiringen, and the IFSC has yet to formally declare South Koreans Jongwon Chon and Chaehyun Seo “qualified” for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, among other news.
Lonnie Dupre, the polar explorer and mountaineer, is attempting the first winter ascent of Begguya’s southern summit with longtime partner Pascale Marceau.
A crackshot team of Rock and Ice investigative journalists has uncovered startling evidence that the famed erectile dysfunction drug Viagra also helps fight hypoxia at high altitudes
Last week, Lor Sabourin sent East Coast Fist Bump (5.14a) in Sedona, Arizona, becoming the first non-binary climber to redpoint a 5.14 route on traditional gear.
