This year’s North Face Climb Festival, the first held in New York, delivered on its promise of an adrenaline-bound community. With a 55-foot climbing wall anchored into the pier waters, onlookers ...

Rebecca Weber, a participant in the Women's Rockreation Club, scales a rock wall at The Quarry. The club was started to give female climbers a safe space to climb. (Jackie Durfey) The Women’s ...

In the months after she claimed a silver medal in sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, Brooke Raboutou returned to the place where she had once competed as a child prodigy: Arco, Italy. Just outside ...

When Caroline Ciavaldini told me she was organising a workshop (female-focused, but not exclusive!) for this year's Melloblocco, I immediately embraced the idea with enthusiasm, volunteering as ...

Between the sounds of crunching dirt and the clinking of carabiners, words of encouragement and laughter filled the air at McDowell Mountain last month. “Everyone is so supportive and wonderful, and ...

Two groundbreaking ascents in just 14 months have redefined the upper limits of women’s sport climbing. Here’s why Brooke Raboutou and Janja Garnbret’s historic 5.15c (9b+) sends mark one of the sport ...

If you’ve paid any attention to the comp climbing scene in the last few years, you know there are some heavy favorites in the women’s Combined (Boulder and Lead) event at the Olympics. Slovenia’s ...