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....

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. ...