The 19-year-old German phenom Alex Megos has made a very impressive second-try ascent of La Rambla (5.15a) at Siurana, Spain. ...

Check out this video of Austrian climber Guntram Jörg making the first ascent of Ninja (V14) in the Canary Islands....

Carlo Traversi finally found an actual “problem” in The Story of Two Worlds (V15). And the “problem” was that he couldn’t send it as quickly or with the relative ease that he has grown accustomed to while trying the world's hardest boulder problems. ...

Sasha DiGiulian is back at it again sending some of the hardest sport routes in the world. On Friday, March 22, DiGiulian climbed Fish Eye and Los Humildes pa Casa during one day at Oliana, Spain. Both are 5.14b. ...

Carlo Traversi has repeated the Dave Graham testpiece The Story of Two Worlds (V15) at Cresciano, Switzerland....

Alex Megos has climbed Estado Critico at Siurana, Spain, on his first try, making what is possibly the world's first 5.14d onsight....

Today, Chris Sharma vanquished his long-term project by clipping the chains of La Dura Dura (5.15c)....

George Lowe, part of the Everest summit team with Edmund Hillary in 1953, died on Wednesday. He was the last surviving member of the team....

The Piolets d'Or committee has decided to honor two ascents of the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre in 2012....

After two years of effort, Leopoldo Faria has established Portugal's hardest sport climb--Peixe Porco (5.14d)....

Bouldering ace Paul Robinson has established a V15, The New Chapter, in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas. ...

Austrian alpinists David Lama, Peter Ortner, and Hansjorg Auer have made a bold first winter ascent of the Sagwand, located in Valsertal, in Austria’s Zillertal valley. The trio climbed the formidable Schiefer Riss (VI, M7, 80-degrees) and endured friable rock with bad protection and one sleepless, bitter-cold night while making the ascent. ...

The International Federation of Sport Climbing has announced that speed climbing and bouldering will now join lead climbing in the bid for the 2020 Olympic Games....

Check out this excellent send footage from the upcoming film The Santa Linya Collective of Magnus Midtbø Ciudad de Dios (5.14d/.15a) in Santa Linya, Spain. ...

A Belgian team recently finished first free ascents of Cerro Catedral and Cerro Cota 2000 in Torres del Paine National Park. Both routes involved free climbing up to 5.13a....

Here is what happens when it all goes wrong! Brace yourselves for this Weekend Whipper and witness a genuine 60-foot slab fall! ...

Mina Leslie-Wujastyk just did a first female ascent of Jason's Roof (V10) at Crookrise in the U.K....

In a mere 16 hours, Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold have free climbed four Zion big-walls in a single push. The formidable duo romped up Sheer Lunacy, Moonlight Buttress, Touchstone, and Spaceshot for a groundbreaking day of free-climbing. ...

The Piolet d'Or committee has announced its nominations for the 2013 awards. "Mountaineers from all over the world have proved that impressive modern challenges can be overcome by small teams climbing on the highest mountains."...

The British alpinist Jonathan Griffith has soloed the three North Faces of Les Droites, Les Courtes and Aiguille Verte in winter, in the same day, and, most notably, under his own power—he descended without technical assistance, often down soloing. ...