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British climber Franco Cookson has made the first ascent of The Dewin Stone, a 9a+ slab at Twll Mawr in the Dinorwig slate quarries above Llanberis in North Wales.

Oriane Bertone from France and Toby Roberts from Great britain have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after winning the European Qualifier Boulder & Lead at Laval in France today.

The International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) European Qualifier Boulder & Lead is currently taking place in Laval, France. The Semifinals yesterday were led by Oriane Bertone and Toby Roberts. The Finals take place today and will be streamed live:...

British rock climber James Pearson has repeated The Parthian Shot E10 6c at Burbage South, UK, without the side-runner in the crack on the right. The Brit, no newcomer to hard and dangerous trad ascents, stated after his repeat 'This...

Slovenia's Janja Garnbret and Japan's Sorato Anraku are provisional first after yesterday's Combined Boulder & Lead Semifinal. The women's finals take place tomorrow while the men's is scheduled for Saturday, with the top three qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic...

Watch the film 'The Road to Century Crack', featuring Japanese climber Yuya Kitahira and his efforts to repeat Century Crack, one of the hardest offwidth cracks in the world, located at the Canyonlands, USA.

The 2023 Sport Climbing World Championships begin today in Bern, Switzerland. The event will award world titles in Boulder, Lead, Speed and Paraclimbing, also distribute the first batch of 10 Olympic quota places for the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

Mat Wright has made the first ascent of the bold trad climb 'Magical Thinking' E10 7a at Pavey Ark, England.

Jain Kim from South Korea and Toby Roberts from Great britain won the third stage of the Lead World Cup 2023 at Chamonix on Sunday 9 July. This is Kim's 30th Lead victory, Roberts' first.

30-year-old British climber Shauna Coxsey has climbed Hydro in Ogmore, South Wales. This is her second 8B boulder problem in as many months, after having repeated Flip Flopera in May.

On Sunday night the fifth stage of the Boulder World Cup 2023 was won at Brixen / Bressanone, Italy, by 18-year-old British climber Toby Roberts. Dohyun Lee (South Korea) and Yoshiyuki Ogata (Japan) placed second and third respectively.

The video 'A New Way Up' directed by Jake Holland, featuring Fabian Buhl and Will Sim paragliding and climbing above the Hunza Valley in Pakistan's Karakorum. Using this groundbreaking paralpinism approach the pair made the first ascent of the Gulmit...

The video of British rock climber Aidan Roberts flashing Momentum (8B+) in Val Bavona, Switzerland

The video of Anna Hazlett, aka Anna Hazelnutt, repeating, and Tom Randall attempting, Prinzip Hoffnung at Bürs in Austria.

Adam Ondra climbing in England on some of the Peak District hard classics established during the 1990's by Jerry Moffatt and Ben Moon.

On 28 January 2023 Richard Tiraboschi, Tommaso Vection and Giuseppe Vidoni made the first ascent of the new mixed climb 'Happy Birthday' (1000m, AI4, M6 , ED) on the South Face of Aiguille de l'Évêque (Grandes Jorasses, Mont Blanc massif).