Dave Graham took first in the men's open division of the Spot Bouldering Series Gladiator Finals this past Saturday, February 2. Graham is best known for his hard climbing outside and is seldom seen in the competition world. ...

The Austrians Albert Leichtfried and Benedikt Purner have established what is possibly the world’s hardest traditional mixed climb. Senza Piombo is located in the Dolomites of northern Italy and is a naturally protected five-pitch M10....

The Lagarde Couloir on the north face of Les Droites in Chamonix, France was a site of tragedy this weekend, as two climbers became stranded and eventually died while awaiting a rescue. ...

Check out this crazy video of Katie Brown whipping big on an onsight attempt of The Tombstone's Epitaph (5.13) in Moab, Utah....

On January 17 Swiss climber Dani Arnold sent three hard ice and mixed routes up to M10 and WI 6 in Breitwangflue, Switzerland. Arnold had previously set a speed record of 2 hours and 28 minutes on the Heckmair route on Eiger North Face in April 2011....

Malcolm Smith burst onto the world stage when he sent the Ben Moon testpiece Hubble, the world's first 5.14c. At the time, he was just an 18-year-old Scottish kid that no one had ever heard of. ...

Check out this sweet new video of David Graham, Nalle Hukkataival, and Ian Dory climbing up to V14 in Australia....

John Long, who was seriously injured in a gym on November 29 when he fell to the floor from the top of the wall, said today that "all things considered, I am doing well."...

New speed record on historic Naked Edge (5.11b). Scott Bennett and Brad Gobright climbed the 460-foot route in a blazing 44 minutes....

Yesterday Adam Ondra came painfully close to sending La Dura Dura, the Sharma project at Oliana which may be the world's hardest route. Reportedly falling two moves away from easier climbing, Ondra seems poised to send. ...

At least 18 people have been murdered and buried or thrown down a well near Potrero Chico, a well-known climbing area in Northern Mexico. ...

Bernd Zangerl currently lives like a bouldering monk in Ticino, Switzerland. He rises with the sun in a small house made of rocks on a mountainside, reads or writes in the morning, and then spends the rest of his day trying to unlock the sequence of a long-term bouldering project. ...

The Stanley Headwall, or THE Headwall of the Canadian Rockies, has had another big and hard route added, done ground up and in good style. ...

The Mount Washington Valley Ice Fest, the biggest, baddest climbing event on the east coast, celebrates its 20th birthday this year from February 1st-3rd, in North Conway, New Hampshire. ...

Jan Hojer has continued his rampage on the world’s hardest boulders by repeating The Big Island (V15) in Fontainebleau, France. Hojer had climbed The Island (V14/15) one month ago, and then set his sights on linking the two lower moves to complete The Big Island’s fifth ascent. ...

Robert Andrew Prosser, 60, of Edmonds, Washington, was killed January 13 in a fall from the top of an ice climb at milepost 8 of State Roue 155 near Coulee City. ...

Three climbers were injured including an Iraqi War veteran on a fund-raising climb when an avalanche ripped down Central Gully in Huntington Ravine on New Hampshire's Mount Washington. ...

In the midst of a stunning Patagonian climbing season where once-seldom-summited peaks are seeing dozens of ascents—and coming on the heels of last years' blitz where Cerro Torre's Compressor Route was chopped and then freed—one can't help but ask: is Patagonian climbing totally different now? ...

"The only thing I'm fighting is me." So says Chris Schulte in this new Louder Than 11 film about hard bouldering in the deep and labyrinthine cleft of the Ice Caves, Independence Pass, Colorado. The film shows Schulte’s wild-looking possible V13 The Crucible, which is apparently unrepeated: "No one else has tried it to my knowledge," he told Rock and Ice....

For Kate Rutherford and Madaleine Sorkin, a women’s place is on top. During the recent splitter weather in Patagonia, this dynamic team of American alpinists climbed Fitz Roy for the massif’s fourth all female ascent....