A 5.12a free solo, a twist on a brutal Alex Honnold traverse, and a new ‘Naked Edge’ record all went down in the past two ...

In July 2026, five friends climbed up to 21,300ft on the south summit of Huarascán, Peru’s highest mountain. Only two came ...

Jan "Honza" Špička is a mountaineer, climber, and backcountry enthusiast from the Czech Republic. He has loved the mountains ...

Michael Reese, a 32-year-old climber from Boulder, shares how he shaved six minutes from Dean Potter's longstanding Half Dome speed record.

We caught up with Dean Fidelman on the next iteration of Stone Nudes, working in Ansel Adams’s darkroom, and how to “hold ...

Rock climbing season doesn’t end when snow hits the high country. Some of the best conditions of the year are right around the corner: cool temps, ample shade, and just the right amount of humidity in ...

The climbing world may love its celebrities, but they also love their underdogs. Which is why we all seem to collectively lose our minds when an undercover crusher emerges from the undergrowth, sends ...

“Shut up and die like a man!” sounds like a line from a bad action movie, but we all heard it on the radio from the paragliding competition director. The director was yelling at a terrified pilot who ...

In Colorado's Flatirons, climbers race against the clock to complete routes without ropes. We went to Boulder to learn what ...

The impossible is becoming possible. Last week, Italian climber Pietro Vidi announced that he had made the second ascent of ...

Justin Salas is on fire. On Friday, October 9, the 33-year-old sport climber and boulderer made the hardest known ascent by a visually impaired athlete, ticking America’s Most Wanted (5.13c) at Mount ...