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French climber Symon Welfringer has repeated Le Voyage at Annot. The hardest trad climb in France was first ascended by James Pearson in 2017.

The Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme has announced it has cancelled the last two stages of the Ice Climbing World Cup in Russia. Published below is the official UIAA press release.

On 17 August 2020 Pete Whittaker made a free solo of the 800m Renshaw/Foulkes route on Kjerag in Norway. The climb features in this year’s Brit Rock Film Tour and the British rock climber has now released footage explaining how the...

The second video of British rock climber James Pearson repeating Harder Faster at Black Rocks in the Peak District, UK.

During a climbing trip to the UK, Belgium’s Siebe Vanhee repeated a flurry of hard gritstone trad climbs including Parthian Shot E9, End of the Affair E8 and Gaia E8.

The video of Caroline Ciavaldini climbing Gaia and James Pearson repeating Harder, Faster at Black Rocks in the UK.

As part of his 'From 0 to 0' project, Andrea Lanfri set off from Genoa by bike and climbed to the Capanna Margherita (4554m) on Monte Rosa, before returning to Genoa by bike. The Paralympic athlete and mountaineer from Lucca...

Last night at Moscow, Russia, during the Climbing World Championships Seo Chaehyun from South Korea and Jakob Schubert from Austria won the 2021 Lead World Championships. Natalia Grossman and Luka Potocar took home the silver medal, Laura Rogora and Hamish...

On Saturday at the Climbing World Championships in Moscow Natalia Grossman from the USA and Kokoro Fuji from Japan were crowned Bouldering World Champions 2021.

Italian alpinists François Cazzanelli, Marco Farina and Francesco Ratti have established L’amitié, a new route on the south face of the Matterhorn dedicated to Roberto Ferraris.

Rock Master 2021 was won on Friday night by Czech climber Adam Ondra and, ex aequo, by Vita Lukan from Slovenia and Jessica Pilz from Austria. Mia Krampl and Stefano Ghisolfi won the Lead Duel, while Laura Rogora and Ondra...

The Dolorock Climbing Festival 2021 took place from 1 to 31 July in Valle di Landro. Over 140 climbers from 5 different countries took part in the climbing meeting of the Dolomites.

Running commentary from the second day of sport climbing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Women's Qualification. The 8 athletes who have qualified for the Final on Friday are: Janja Garnbret, Chaehyun Seo, Miho Nonaka, Akiyo Noguchi, Brooke Raboutou, Jessica...

At Andonno in Italy 24-year-old climber Claudia Ghisolfi has repeated Noia, the legendary 8c+ established in 1993 by Severino Scassa.

The video of British climber Jacob Cook making the first ascent in 2014 of The Lizard King, an E9 trad climb at Ilkley in England

Interview with James Pearson and Caroline Ciavaldini after their respective repeats of Harder Faster and Gaia at Black Rocks in England. These hard grit testpieces were first ascended by Charlie Woodburn and Johnny Dawes and while Pearson’s is only the...