19+ hour, 59+ min ago   (222+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine A woman in her 30s was rescued after falling about 30 metres in the Blue Mountains on Saturday morning. Reports say that she was climbing at the Ben Travado Wall, but there are no other details. A major rescue…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (303+ words) New for Spring 2027: ‘Behind the Ranges’ Rethinks Canadian Mountaineering Gripped Climbing Magazine New for Spring 2027, Behind the Ranges, published by UBC Press, and written by Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon offers a new history of mountaineering in the Canadian West,…...

1+ week, 1+ 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   (1821+ words) Gripped reached out to Joe Evermore. The father of the family that climbs El Capitan together. In May, Joe and his two boys, Joey (7) and Sylvan (11), topped out on El Capitan. Mom (Ann) was watching from the Meadow. Their accomplishments…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (208+ words) Spanish climbers Eneko and Iker Pou and their Peruvian partner Micher Quito have established two new routes on the northwest face of 6,162m Ranrapalca in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca, first climbing the face in 2023 and returning this year to open what they…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (570+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine Alex Megos made the first ascent of two V14 (8B+) boulders in Norway – Norwegian Sky and Schattenspiel – within a few days. Norwegian Sky is crimpy and very dynamic with a huge throw on immaculate, wavy rock. Schattenspiel is more…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (365+ words) During the summer of 1967, together with his compatriot Michl Meier, he was invited to Chamonix by the ENSA. On this occasion, they went on to repeat, on Mont Blanc, the Bonatti–Gobbi route on the Grand Pilier d’Angle and the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) New 900-metre Route Climbed on Eiger’s North Face Gripped Climbing Magazine Over 13 days this summer, Roger Schaeli and Fay Manners established Solar Eclipse, a 900-metre 33-pitch line up the north face of the Eiger. Schaeli noted that while the route…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (211+ words) Gripped Climbing Magazine German mountain guide Michael Wohlleben made the first free ascent of the five-pitch Bodhichitta on the smooth Westliche Dreifaltigkeit slab in Switzerland in 2022. He was belayed by Nemuel Feurle and filmed by Roman Berner. Wohlleben found the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (344+ words) gripped.com Siblings Giulia and Mattia Bernardini have climbed Digital Crack 5.13b, the famous 50-metre route on the Grand Gendarme of the Arête des Cosmiques, near the Aiguille du Midi, at an altitude of approximately 3,800 metres. First freed in 1990 by French…...