Keyword: bouldering

On a trip away from Bleu and Ticino, it's often just you and your project. No warm-up boulders and easy routes in sight. Professional climber Alexander Megos explained to us how best to prepare your fingers and body for such situations. He always keeps two things in his car for this purpose – a yoga mat and a fingerboard. Here he explains how he uses both.

The right time to get climbing shoes resoled is sooner than you might think: when there's about one millimeter of sole left. Honestly, nobody measures it, but how do I know when I should get my shoes resoled, and where can I even do that?

High altitude instead of heat wave: You won't break a sweat at these summer-friendly alpine bouldering spots, even in August.

Sometimes rock climbing is the best training – Adam Ondra thought so too last week when he went to Val Daone instead of the climbing gym. There, he flashed a total of four 8B boulder problems in just three and a half hours and even managed to flash an 8A/+ on top of that.

At -22°C and under daily shelling, the people of Kyiv continue to climb. Not despite the war, but as a response to it. In the city's climbing gyms, a sport that mountaineers once called the "pursuit of uselessness" has become something profoundly necessary: ​​a place of light, warmth, and community in the fifth winter of the war.

Mountain Equipment is refreshing its climbing and bouldering collection – with clothing that captures the feeling of life between rock, gym and everyday life.

The most successful competitive climber in history is giving fans a first-ever glimpse into her private life on her new YouTube channel. Her first video takes them to the Boulder World Cup in Keqiao.

At the World Cup in Madrid, Japan's Sorato Anraku won the third of the season's three bouldering events so far, with gold going to Great Britain's Erin McNeice. In speed climbing, American Emma Hunt and China's Chu Shouhong triumphed.