The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced an increase in medals and athlete quota for Sport Climbing for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/sport-climbing-gets-separate-medals-for-la-2028-olympics/
Early March saw the Mountaineering Scotland International Winter Meet take place for the first time since 2020. The event showcased both the best of Scottish winter climbing and the vagaries of the weather. Despite a deep thaw midweek, some imp...
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Babsi Zangerl, climbing with her partner Jacopo Larcher, has made an historic flash of El Cap over a three-day push via Freerider (5.13a).
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/babsi-zangerl-flashes-freerider-5-13a-f7c/
A new park has opened that uses the holds and pads that were used in climbing's inaugural Olympics
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This is the first send of the famous route that's been recorded in 2024
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Sport Climbing's second Olympic showing kicked off today at Le Bourget in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. The men's Boulder semi-final filled the 6,000-capacity stand and many athletes had their first taste of competing on the world's biggest sporting stage. Japan's Sorato Anraku topped the leaderboard after a dominant two-top perf...
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“New Heights” is the first video game to capture the physics of rock climbing. Every climber should give it a try.
https://www.climbing.com/news/review-climbing-video-game/