Unless you were living in a cave through 2017 and 2018, you’re probably aware of the term free solo. Alex Honnold’s incredible climb of the Freerider route on El Capitan without protective aids or ...

Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...

When 21-year-old Lincoln Knowles spoke with GearJunkie this week, he had (of course) just finished another morning of climbing without a rope. He was attempting a two-pitch climb in Salt Lake City’s ...

Alex Honnold and Sanni McCandless are having a kid—a daughter, in fact! For the climbing world, this is the equivalent of a royal birth. I half expect that the guys over at Reel Rock are already ...

Sixty feet up an overhanging limestone face striped orange and blue on the edge of Spain’s pleasure isle of Mallorca, American climber Chris Sharma pumps once, pumps twice—then launches himself up the ...

After Free Soloing El Capitan in Yosemite, Alex Honnold has been spending his time primarily working on his foundation. Free solo climbing is the act of climbing without the use of a rope or harness – ...

On the morning of June 30, Austin Howell, of Lombard, Illinois, was climbing without a rope in Linville Gorge, North Carolina. The 31-year-old first free-soloed a 350-foot swath of vertical sandstone.

This article was first published by GymClimber.com. A climber was found dead following a fall in Eldorado Canyon last week. According to Carrie Haverfield at the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) ...

“There are only two mandatory criteria for deepwater soloing—overhanging rock and deep water. It’s pretty simple really,” says rock climber Matt Maddaloni, who helped bring this subsport into fashion ...

Despite its long-time placement on the climbing world map, Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay remains shrouded in mystery, often hyped but seldom profiled. Beyond the heavily-skewed website of the local guiding ...