5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (588+ words) Laura Rogora Makes Third Ascent of Adam Ondra’s Big Twin 5.15a gripped.com Laura Rogora has just made the third ascent of Big Twin 5.15a (9a+) in Laggio Nord in the Italian Dolomites. Since the ascent of her hardest climb yet, Bibliographie 5.15c, the…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (702+ words) High above the Valais valley in Switzerland, the 2,985m Petit Clocher du Portalet rises as a steep granite spire into the Alps. Histoire sans Fin (8b+, 200m) is one of the hardest free-climbing routes on the spire and a major test of hard…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (286+ words) The following Instagram quote from Cea about his ascent has been translated from Spanish to English using Google Translate: After giving it a few attempts on that first trip, I went back to the Frankenjura, where I did a lot…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (196+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine On June 21, the summer solstice, French climbers Hugo Parmentier and Esteban Daligault set out to free the three hardest routes on the Grand Capucin in the Mont Blanc massif in under 24 hours. They began at 5:10 a.m. on the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (454+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Adam Ondra went out for a bouldering session in Toit d’Orsay in France. He had his sights set on a V14 flash, but ended up making a V14/15 (8B+/C) first ascent instead. He called the problem Little Boy du…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (488+ words) An team of strong climbers has established an 800-metre new route on Pedra Baiana in Brazil, climbing a line they have named Sintonia (5.13 C1, 800 m, 22 pitches). The route was opened by Brazilian climbers Gisely Ferraz and Danielle Pinto, French climber Laura…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (488+ words) An team of strong climbers has established an 800-metre new route on Pedra Baiana in Brazil, climbing a line they have named Sintonia (5.13 C1, 800 m, 22 pitches). The route was opened by Brazilian climbers Gisely Ferraz and Danielle Pinto, French climber Laura…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (229+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Italians Silvia Loreggian and Stefano Ragazzo made the first-ever link of Great Trango Tower, Little Trango Tower and Nameless Tower in Pakistan’s Karakoram, climbing the three peaks in one continuous push without returning to base camp. The…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1448+ words) I was on a random visit to Melbourne, Australia, and thought I would drop in on a bouldering gym. The closest to my digs was Rocket Climbing in West Footscray, a four year old gym servicing, among others, students from…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (409+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Laura Rogora made history a couple of weeks ago when she climbed 5.15c faster than anyone ever has with her ascent of Bibliographie in Céüse, France. She also set another record – she became the first woman to climb…...