And then there’s Lizard Head. I have never climbed such rotten volcanic rock in my life. I didn’t know volcanic rock could be so chossy. The real kicker, which I mulled over as I struggled to not fall off the decomposing top pitch, was that this was first climbed in 1921—a century ago!—one of the…
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The Olympic champions, Janja Garnbret and Toby Roberts, have both finished the 2025 World Cup Boulder season with Gold medals at Innsbruck, Austria.
https://www.climber.co.uk/news/olympic-champions-garnbret-and-roberts-win-last-boulder-golds-of-2025/
From V17 sends in a session to the first-ever flash of El Capitan in a day - here are some of the biggest sends of May
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In this week's Friday Night Video, fresh from his ascent of the 9A Soudain Seul, Adam Ondra heads out with the aim of flashing some hard boulder problems. We get an insight into the preparation before these attempts and also a little look at a potential 9A/+ project...
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Ueli Steck was one of the world's leading climbers for over a decade. He once tried to get a speed record with Alex Honnold
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