Climbing
The Japanese climber Sachi Amma manages to climb the most difficult route to date in his home country: Maturity (9a +). Sachi worked on his "Dragon Wall Project" for two months, tinkering with ...
Climbing
The Basque Patxi Usobiaga is known for his merciless training. After a serious car accident, he fought his way back into the limelight of the international climbing scene. Before a…
Climbing
The new Tarragona climbing guide by Pete O'Donovan and Dani Andrada is now available in the Topo collection of the Vertical-Life Climbing App. That means that it ...
bouldering
If you are not afraid of the snow on the forest floor, you will currently find perfect conditions in the Cresciano bouldering area. Giuliano Cameroni takes advantage of this fact and ...
Climbing
In June this year Steve McClure climbed the most difficult route in Great Britain: Rainman (9b) in Malham Cove. Shortly before Christmas, Adam Ondra visited the climbing area ...
bouldering
In 2013 Thomas Blaabjerg had a serious climbing accident and ended up in a wheelchair. The doctors told the young Dane that he would never be able to climb again….
bouldering
So far, the German climber Fabian Buhl has been known mainly for climbing difficult multi-pitch tours (e.g. the MSL tour Ganesha). In the summer of 2017 ...
Climbing
Do you know the scapular pull-up? The exercise described below is extremely important, but is far too rarely integrated into the training program. Time to catch up on that. One…
bouldering
You don't know Ryohei Kameyama? Then you are not alone. The 20-year-old Japanese was recently in Fontainebleau and unceremoniously committed boulders in the levels of difficulty ...
Climbing
Chris Sharma stayed at home for a few days, climbing with Tommy Caldwell in an old Dean Potter project. For both it remained ...
bouldering
12-year-old Oriane Bertone recently climbed her second 8b boulder, Psychopad. The boulder is located on the French island of La Réunion and was designed by Grég Sobczak ...
bouldering
Carlo Traversi fulfilled a dream this spring: He scored Gecko Sitzstart (8b +) in Fontainebleau, France. Here is the video of the inspection….
Climbing
Roger Schäli and Simon Wahli traveled to the big wall paradise of Yosemite Valley for almost seven weeks. The aim of the two was to prepare for an upcoming Patagonia trip….
Climbing
In the summer of 2016, the American Heather Weidner was the fourth woman to climb an 8b + in Trad style: She succeeded in climbing the multi-pitch tour China Doll in Dream ...
Climbing
In the winter and spring months, some are drawn to the snow-capped mountains, others to the southern climbing and bouldering areas. A very popular destination ...