Dear Kurt, This is a letter I don’t want to write. Writing is often difficult to get started, but this one is nearly impossible because you are gone, at least in the physical. It was in the evening of my birthday when I learned that you were presumed dead on Mt. Cook in New Zealand. …
V16 climber Pietro Vidi has repeated the 19-pitch 5.13c a quarter of a century after Tommy Caldwell and Beth Rodden made the first free ascent
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The Rookery is Lamb's ninth boulder at 8B+. She has three further ascents at 8C, and is the only female climber to have multiple ascents at the grade.
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Vintage footage of one of America's great rock climbers on a route that he made the first free ascent of
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The climbing event at the Paris 2024 Olympics has started, here are the rankings after the first round
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