GB Climbing's Max Milne and Erin NcNeice won silver and bronze respectively at the IFSC Boulder World Cup in Seoul, South Korea today. McNeice's bronze is her first-ever IFSC World Cup medal. GB teammate Dayan Akhtar also made his first IFSC World Cup final and finished 4th.
As a film about his previous attempts tours the world, the Belgian 5.15 climber heads back up El Capitan
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“It goes, boys!” Zangerl, 36, blasted up the 3,300-foot Free Rider (VI 5.13a) on her first attempt, without a single fall.
https://www.climbing.com/news/interview-first-person-flash-el-capitan/
Since late September, she's sent six routes 5.14d and above: two 5.15a's, one 5.14d/15a, and three 5.14d's
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Steve McClure has snatched the second ascent of James McHaffie's Yma O Hyd (E10 7a) in north Wales as the season for mountain trad comes to a close.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/steve-mcclure-gets-second-ascent-of-yma-o-hyd-e10-7a/
Max Barlerin is a family man who holds down two jobs while also running a fledgling business of his own. But he also somehow found the time to open a 14-pitch 5.13 in Wyoming's remote Wind River Range.
https://www.climbing.com/news/children-of-the-sun-first-ascent/
James McHaffie has made the first ascent of an E10/8c+ involving a direct start to Mission Impossible E9 at Gallt Yr Ogof in Gwynedd, North Wales, which he has named Yma O Hyd. The new start follows a thin seam line up to a 'Rose' cross-through move to eventually join Mission Impossible at its cruxes.
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?n=774872
Indoor climbing has gotten so expensive that the American Alpine Club officially considers it an "access issue." Is there anything we can do to stop climbing from becoming an elites-only pursuit like skiing or golf?
https://www.climbing.com/places/climbing-gyms-are-too-expensive/
