From Es Pontas to Vision Quest, here are five of Chris Sharma's most famous deep water solo first ascents
The post Chris Sharma’s Hardest Deep Water Solo Routes appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
https://gripped.com/profiles/chris-sharmas-hardest-deep-water-solo-routes/
Vance Stanfield has made the first ascents of some of Oregon's hardest boulders to date
The post Smith Rock Gets Its First V14, Then Another One appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
https://gripped.com/news/smith-rock-gets-its-first-v14-then-another-one/
The IFSC World Cup series will be replaced with the World Climbing Series starting in 2026
The post The IFSC Has Changed Their Name to World Climbing appeared first on Gripped Magazine.
https://gripped.com/news/the-ifsc-has-changed-their-name-to-world-climbing/
Caroline “Caro” Ciavaldini has made the third female ascent of Greenspit, the overhanging crack testpiece in Valle dell’Orco, Italy.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/caroline-ciavaldini-repeats-greenspit-f8b-valle-dell-orco-italy/
Sunna Shinn went from fundamentalist Baptist teacher to nonbinary climbing TikTok influencer in five years. As they learned to climb, they learned to embrace their queerness.
https://www.climbing.com/people/nonbinary-climber-sunna-shin/