Gripped Magazine

The popular climbing area of the Roaches in Britian saw a sad turn of events last week as the chicks of Peregrine Falcons nesting there were stolen

In this bastion of climbing tradition, change is rare, and some of the most famous cliffs, like Skytop have been closed to open access from climbers. The opening of Dickie Barre is, therefore very welcome.

This season alone, there have been two deaths from loose rock.

The pair made a fast continuous ascent very few younger climbers could beat. As of May 30, Donini was back on the valley floor with a new partner hoping to make another one day attempt.

The Red River Gorge Climbers’ Coalition (RRGCC) and the American Access Fund have teamed up and purchased 309-acre climbing area in Beattyville, Kentucky.

A great resource for Rockies climbers.

James McHaffie and Ben Bransby have repeated the Long Hope Route on St John’s Head, Hoy, Scotland, making the second free ascent of the bold and crumbly sandstone trad route first free-climbed by Dave MacLeod in 2012.

If you think that set up for an IFSC comps are a higher-level version of what may be available at your local gym, think again. Competition setting has very different and specific goals than training routes and circuits in a commercial gym.

Paumgarten depicts a battle between the unromantic, slick professionalism of Steck, who he tracks through his training and his carefully maintained professional reputation in Switzerland, and commercial climbing, also a non-Nepali invention.

“Without any climbing history at the Olympics, going to the Games is just another road trip. Sometimes, despite the best of plans, it rains, and you have to spend a few days cooling your heels in the coffee shop.”