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This is how you treat climbing finger injuries

Almost every climber knows it: the finger injury. Ring ligaments and capsular injuries or flexor tendon strains are probably the best-known candidates. In the following episode shows ...

The latest Shit: Retrofit climbing routes with 3D technology

Anyone who has undertaken a really difficult project often has to prepare precisely for the stresses and strains of the route. So far this has been done at home on ...

Adam Ondra in Project Hard at Flatanger - Norway

Adam Ondra in the 9c project: You have to see these moves

Adam Ondra has been back in Flatanger, Norway for some time. He has dogged himself into a potential 9c line, which he previously called "Project ...

Grigri plus from PETZL_Produktbild_Sicherungsgerät

Get the new Grigri + for just 85 CHF

Yes, the new Grigri + is here. And yes, it's even safer. Now you can order it for only 85 CHF without shipping costs. Why so cheap? ...

Again 9a onsight climbed

Alexander Megos wrote climbing history four years ago when he was the first to climb a 9a onsight. Yesterday he announced the second onsight ascent of a route in ...

Baptiste Ometz wins the European Youth Cup in Soure

Big cinema: Baptiste Ometz from Valais climbs onto the podium of the European Youth Cup in Soure, Portugal. The Swiss champion in bouldering, Sofya Yokoyama, wins the ...

Eithne Kane shows exercises for Cool Down

With these exercises you conclude your climbing training properly

Everyone knows how important it is to warm up before climbing and bouldering. The British top boulder Shauna Coxsey (LACRUX reported) showed us some good exercises.

Here row by row classics are bouldered

Jimmy Webb, Kevin Takashi Smith and Mark Heal were in Switzerland for a few days in April. They visited the areas of Val Bavona, Brione, Magic Wood….

Kevin Heiniger on the successful ascent of Kryptos

At the end of April, Kevin Heiniger succeeded in inspecting cryptos after years of project planning (LACRUX reported). Now the video of the successful ascent is online. Kevin Heiniger at ...

Giuliano Cameronia climbs Grande gigante gentile in Val Bavona

Giuliano Cameroni's ingenious first ascent in the Val Bavona

We are used to big words from American climbers. The Swiss are more reluctant. Giuliano Cameroni's latest creation, however, leaves him unusually immodest words ...

Piotr Schab climbs Victimas Perez in Margalef

Piotr Schab rides on the wave of success

Piotr Schab continues to soar. At the beginning of the year we reported several times about its inspections. After ticking off two 9-way routes in Santa Linya, few manage to ...

So you warm up properly before bouldering

Before you claw nasty ledges and do dynamic bouldering moves, you should really warm up. It is worth it .. How you do it shows us today ...

How to mount your fingerboard with reef cords

So you attach your fingerboard with reef cords

Usually, a finger board, such as the Beastmaker model, is drilled above a door frame. But what if the sun is shining on the balcony, you ...

Rebekka Stotz at the Swiss Bouldering Championship 2017

The Swiss bouldering champions are chosen

Yesterday the Swiss bouldering championship took place in B2 near Pratteln. The winners were 19-year-old Sofya Yokoyama from Vaud and 19-year-old Baptiste Ometz. The entire results can be found ...

Michi Wohlleben and Simon Gietl - Drei Zinnen

Spectacular pictures of the traversing at the Drei Zinnen

The German alpinist Michi Wohlleben and the South Tyrolean Simon Gietl realized the first winter ascent of the five peaks on the Drei Zinnen in March (LACRUX reported)….