Why It’s Almost Impossible to Climb 15 Meters in 5 Seconds
Equal parts fascinating and goofy look at speed climbing, featuring Alex Honnold, American speed climber Jordan Fishman, and French biomechanist Pierre Legreneur.
Equal parts fascinating and goofy look at speed climbing, featuring Alex Honnold, American speed climber Jordan Fishman, and French biomechanist Pierre Legreneur.
The truth about going for it.
Hans Florine writes about what the recovery from his leg-breaking, ankle-shattering fall six months ago has been like: the lessons, the difficulties and the road back to the Nose.
REEL ROCK 13 comes out November 1, with all new films about Adam Ondra, Queen Maud Land, speed climbing, and Wadi Rum!
Longtime climber Bill Wright, co-author with Hans Florine of Speed Climbing, lays out the case for why he thinks speed climbing is a reasonable and attainable pursuit for average climbers, and not just something for the Alex Honnolds and Tommy Caldwells of the world.
Yep, you guessed it. They did it. Sub two hours.
The man with more ascents of El Capitan than anyone else in history writes about watching Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell's new speed record, whether he thinks they'll break the two-hour mark, and the risks involved in speed climbing the Big Stone.
France claims golds in speed events, Noguchi takes her second consecutive gold of the 2018 season, and Khazanov makes history with the first World Cup gold for Israel at the fourth 2018 World Cup event in Tai'an, China.
The former Nose speed-record holder, who has climbed El Cap a record 178 times, fell high-up on the route last Thursday, shattering bones in both his legs.
The second bouldering world cup of the season largely saw a reshuffling of the podiums from last week's event in Switzerland.
Time to dust off your hangboard: competition climbing will be front and center at the 2020 Olympic games.
Over Labor Day weekend, Freddie Wilkinson and Rufus Lusk set a new record. They single-pushed the Nose (5.9 C1) on El Cap—from Brooklyn, New York. “It wasn’t about the record though,” says Wilkinson, “It’s been an 11-year dream.”