Some 26 years ago, the legendary American climber Lynn Hill and all-star team were busy developing what was, at the time, the most difficult big wall climb ever sent by an all-female group. Madagascar ...

In the months after she claimed a silver medal in sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, Brooke Raboutou returned to the place where she had once competed as a child prodigy: Arco, Italy. Just outside ...

This year’s North Face Climb Festival, the first held in New York, delivered on its promise of an adrenaline-bound community. With a 55-foot climbing wall anchored into the pier waters, onlookers ...

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