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....

The Californian Dan Beall has claimed the fourth ascent of Terremer (V15), in Hueco Tanks. ...

Tommy Caldwell may be the hardest-working man in climbing. In this recent video, Making Tommy, filmmaker Chris Alstrin explores Caldwell’s roots, beginning with his first climb in Estes Park at the age of three, to his current battle with El Cap’s Dawn Wall project. ...

Italian mountain guides Adam Holzknecht and Hubert Moroder completed a first ascent of La Legrima (WI6 M6 A0) in the Dolomites on January 8. The route ascends 1,000 meters of rock and ice on the north face of Sassolungo in the Dolomites and runs roughly parallel to the more common Pichl route on the face....

Two years ago Paul Robinson spent two months bouldering in South Africa, and a year later he returned with a whole crew of bouldering friends. The other visitors to Cape Town and the Cape of Good Hope included the young bouldering phenom Ashima Shiraishi, 11, who is pictured here on Scorpion, a V11 she climbed in a day, in a segment from the new film Chasing Winter. ...

An avalanche has swept six climbers off the Scottish Highlands peak Bidean nam Bian, 3,772 feet high, near Church Door Buttress, killing four and seriously injuring a fifth....

Weekend Whipper: Man falls, slams into tree, breaks ankle....

Three months of effort in the Black Canyon produce a big new free route, Black Cloud (IV 5.12- PG) by Robert Pizem and Chris Righter....