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The development of Gola di Mikado, a beautiful new sport climbing crag near Capo Pecora in Sardinia, has been completed thanks to a crowdfunding campaign. All the details directly from Maurizio Oviglia, who bolted the routes together with Antonio Iaria...

For three decades, the La Venta Geographical Exploration Association has been exploring glaciers and glacier cave. After monitoring the Gorner glacier in 2020 and 2022, Alessio Romeo returned this year to check the health of the wonderful caves that formed...

The organisers of the Piolet d’Or mountaineering award have published the 'big list' of most significant and innovative climbs carried out in 2023. The honoured ascents will receive the Piolets d'Or 2024 award during the celebration at San Martino di...

Speed: Veddriq Leonardo oro, Wu Pen argento, Samuel Watson bronzo

Boulder & Lead: Janja Garnbret, Jessica Pilz, Brooke Raboutou, Ai Mori, Oriane Bertone, Oceania Mackenzie, Erin McNeice and Chaehyun Seo qualify for the final on Saturday

Thursday 8 August:...

Speed Climbing: Aleksandra Mirosław wins gold, Lijuan Deng silver, Aleksandra Kalucka bronze

Boulder & Lead: Sorato Anraku, Toby Roberts, Adam Ondra, Alberto Gines Lopez, Jakob Schubert, Paul Jenft, Colin Duffy & Hamish McArthur qualify for the final on Friday

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Tuesday 6 August: all latest sport climbing news from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Janja Garnbret leads the provisional ranking with 99.6 points. Home-favourite Orianne Bertone blows the roof off and places second, ahead of Brooke Raboutou

Speed: Sam Watson sets new...

Join planetmountain for the latest sport climbing news from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

It's been an intese day of Men's Boulder e Women's Speed

In Speed Aleksandra Mirosław sets a new world record at 6.06 seconds

Sport climbing takes place at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games from 5 August to 10 August at the Le Bourget Climbing venue.

For the first time 68 athletes will compete in two separate disciplines: Boulder & Lead and Speed.

Maurizio Oviglia and Tatjana Göx have developed a spectacular new sports and trad area called Andromeda on the SW coast of Sardinia, on the Murru Biancu promontory between Portixeddu and Capo Pecora. Currently the crag has 11 routes up to...

In the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, on 23 June the Olympic Torch Relay completed a breathtaking tour of Aiguille du Midi.

Slovakian mountaineers Marek Radovský & Juraj Švingál have climbed various new rock climbs and mixed routes in the Cordillera Blanca area in Peru. Radovský reports.

Eddie Fowke reports about the second and final Olympic Qualifying Series that took place in Budapest, Hungary, from 20 to 23 June. Stakes were extremely high as after Shanghai this represented the last chance for 24 Combined Boulder & Lead...

Budapest OQS has confirmed who will go to the Olympic Games this summer: Yafei Zhou, Aleksandra Kalucka, Rajiah Sallsabillah, Capucine Viglione, Manon Lebon, Leslie Adriana Romero Perez, Beatrice Colli and Wu Peng, Veddriq Leonardo, Amir Maimuratov, Zach Hammer, Reza Alipour...

British climber Mat Wright has repeated Rhapsody, the E11 7a trad climb located at Dumbarton Rock in Scotland, first ascended by Dave Macleod in 2006.

The video of Swiss climber Cedric Lachat onsighting 'Chimpanzodrome', the historic 7c+ at Saussois in France first ascended in 1981 by Jean-Pierre Bouvier.

The Italian La Venta association reports about its first expedition to explore the Qanaf Cave and depths of the desert plateau of Jabal Samḥān in southern Oman.