America's longest and most elusive ice climb, Yosemite's Widow's Tears, sees a rare ascent....

Raphael Slawinski and Eamonn Walsh have made the first ascent of a spectular line, Lacelle Qui Reste (WI6, 40 meters), on Mt. Wilson in the Canadian Rockies, on December 30. ...

Frenchman Guillaume Glairon Mondet has squeezed up The Big Island (V15), making a rare repeat of Fontainebleau’s hardest problem....

Cedric Lachat has made a rare repeat of Chaxi, a 5.15a power-endurance route in Oliana, Spain. Chris Sharma first sent the route on May 5, 2011. ...

Following his groundbreaking first free ascent of the Compressor Route (5.13b) on Cerro Torre last year, David Lama is on his way back to the Patagonian mountains with a wild new first ascent in the Alps as preparation....

Happy belated birthday to Fred Beckey, who turned 90 on Monday. Beckey’s 90 years have been devoted to mountains, and his climbing adventures have left him with more first ascents in the mountains than anyone in North American climbing history. ...

Will Gadd, Will Mayo, Pat Delaney, and John Freeman collectively developed a new M11 route called Nophobia in the Ghost area near Canmore, Alberta. Two in the party successfully climbed the route on January 10, 2013....

“He’s making it look easy!” exclaimed a shocked spectator while watching Simon Duverney style the final route at the 18th annual Ouray Ice Festival mixed-climbing competition this Saturday....

David Lama and Peter Ortner established a new route on the North face of Laserz on December 27, 2012, in the Lienzer Dolomites of Austria....

Klem Loskot recently exploded onto the scene with a V15 ascent and a 5.15a first ascent. Now Loskot has shared his thoughts, photos, and video footage of his recent repeat of Zunami (V15) with Rock and Ice. ...

At the age of 89, Fred Beckey is at it again. Beckey roped up with two other climbers to do Tranquility, a three-pitch 5.6 in Joshua Tree. Beckey turns 90 on January 14 and is an American climbing treasure. ...

“Don’t blowtorch the holds!” Or at least that’s what Carlo Traversi has been hearing lately after being shown in a film using a blowtorch to dry some wet granite holds in Sweden....

V15s are falling like apples in October. Dave Graham and Jon Cardwell have both cranked two of the hardest boulder problems in the world. ...

Local climber Andres Marin just sent five of the hardest mixed lines in Ouray's Posers Cave in a single day. "My first visit to the cave was about six years ago," Marin writes in an email to Rock and Ice. "I remember being overwhelmed by the place and how steep the climbing is."...

Last winter, Klemen Premrl and Tim Emmett completed the first and second ascents (respectively) of Wolverine (WI11) in Helmcken Falls, British Columbia. ...

Last week Daniel Woods told Rock and Ice that he was trying Witness the Fitness in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. "It has broken numerous times since Sharma has done it," wrote Woods in an e-mail to Rock and Ice. ...

Josh Wharton is not scared to fall. Just watch this top-shelf video from John Dickey of Wharton climbing traditional mixed-terrain in Rocky Mountain National Park, and you will see for yourself....

Daniel Woods has done what may be the first V14 in the Southeast. Aggravated Assault, located in Griffin Falls, Alabama, climbs a 60-degree roof on holds that are “flat and angled the wrong direction” Woods stated in an e-mail to Rock and Ice. ...

Mount Everest can now be seen like never before. Famed climber and filmmaker David Breashears has stitched together approximately 3.8 billion pixels to create an interactive photo called a "gigapan" that allows viewers to virtually tour the world's highest peak."The context of the photo is really important," Breashears told Rock and Ice. ...

Eric Nourse, 41, of Colorado and David Reinhart, 42, of Portland, Oregon, have died while attempting Aconcagua, 22,841 feet and the highest mountain in the Americas. ...