Rock Climbing News

Read here about all the latest rock climbing news--the hardest redpoints, the most astonishing onsights, the wildest trad climbs, and the boldest solos. If it's a ground-breaking rock climb, we've got all the details.

  • Climber Deaths in Yosemite, Tahquitz

    5/20/13 - A climber died Sunday after he fell climbing the Muir Wall (5.10 A2) on El Capitan. The Muir Wall is a 33-pitch line just left of the famed Nose.

  • National Park Service Authorizes Fixed Anchors in Wilderness

    5/17/13 - The National Park Service has released a decision regarding fixed anchors in Wilderness. The policy, called Director's Order #41, manages the use of fixed anchors in wilderness areas, including in major climbing areas like Yosemite, Grand Teton, Zion, Joshua Tree, and Canyonlands national parks.

  • Megos Repeats Corona (5.15a) in Frankenjura

    5/14/13 - The 19-year-old Alexander Megos has climbed Corona (5.15a) in the Frankenjura, Germany.

  • Utah Desert Gets New 5.12+ Offwidth

    5/13/13 - Pamela Pack and Patrick Kingsbury have established a new hard offwidth route in Indian Creek, Utah: Soul Assassin (5.12+ R, four pitches).

  • Arizona Climber Found Dead from Bee Stings

    5/9/13 - On April 6, a group of climbers found a man hanging in climbing gear from a cliff on Mt. Hopkins in Santa Rita Mountains, south of Tucson, Arizona.

  • Climbing to be Banned at Castle Rocks, Idaho

    5/2/13 - On April 17, the Bureau of Land Management in Idaho proposed permanently banning climbing on 400 acres of the Castle Rock Interagency Recreation Area. This does not affect the neighboring and much larger City of Rocks.

  • New Route in the Fisher Towers

    5/3/13 - Jeremy Aslaksen and Paul Gagner have completed their sixth new route in the Fisher Towers of Utah in three and a half years. Mudzilla (V A3, 5 pitches) climbs a line up the northwest face of the King Fisher, between Dead Again and Hazing, linking thin features connected by short bolt ladders to a "money crack system that shoots uninterrupted to the cap rock," Gagner said.

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    Harry Edwards, 12, Climbs Southern Smoke (5.14c)

    5/1/13 - Twelve-year-old Harry Edwards has climbed Southern Smoke (5.14c), Red River Gorge, Kentucky.

  • Alex Megos, 19, Makes First Ascent of 5.15a

    5/1/13 - Alexander Megos has made the first ascent of Classified (5.15a/9a+), on the Holzgauerhaus Wall, Frankenjura, Germany. This is his second 5.15a redpoint.

  • Tributes to Layton Kor, 1938–2013

    Climbing asked partners, friends, and admirers of the late Layton Kor to write a few words in tribute: Jeff Achey, Pat Ament, Chris Archer, John Gill, Steve Komito, Jim McCarthy, Royal Robbins, Steve Roper

  • Russia’s Evgeniya Malamid Onsights 5.14a

    4/23/13 - Russian climber Evgeniya Malamid has onsighted Los Humildes pa Casa (5.14a) in Oliana, Spain.

  • Beautiful New Free Climb in Yosemite Valley

    4/23/13 - Nik Berry has redpointed a beautiful new nine-pitch route up the Fifi Buttress, just west of the Leaning Tower in Yosemite Valley. The new line, Final Frontier (5.13), is the free version of an aid climb (V 5.7 A3) of the same name, established by Dan and Sue McDevitt, Penny Black, and Brittany Griffith.

 
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