Climbing was added to the Tokyo Olympic slate in 2016. The addition of the sport, along with surfing and skateboarding, is part of an Olympic effort to appeal to a younger audience. Instead of ...

Many people decided to upgrade their backyards during the pandemic. It offered a convenient way for caretakers and children alike to get outdoors. Instead of wrangling everyone into the car to head to ...

Nathaniel Coleman is seen climbing during the men's boulder qualification at the climbing World Cup in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 21, 2021. Climbing is an Olympic sport for the first time, and the ...

Climbing’s standing as a niche sport has always been a part of its appeal. A rock wall can be a place of solitude or of camaraderie with a small group of fellow climbers. There are no crowds, just the ...

HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) — The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games are just over a month away, and a new event, sport climbing will be making its debut. 22News spoke with climbing experts at Central Rock Gym in ...

2021 was an “interesting” year in terms of climbing gear. Because the pandemic put so much of life on pause, items that had been slated to be released in 2020 or early 2021 were held up by ...

You may have been rock climbing before, but you’ve never done it the way Nathaniel Coleman is doing it right now at the Momentum Indoor Climbing gym in Salt Lake City. Coleman isn’t climbing so much ...

Winners of the 2021 Piolets d’Or, mountaineering’s highest honor, were announced October 8 for two significant ascents, one in the Canadian Rockies and one in Pakistan, as well as a special mention ...

It didn’t really hit Melissa Utomo until she went climbing in Wyoming’s Ten Sleep Canyon. The Boulder resident had been rock climbing for several years, but when she went to scale one of the sport’s ...

Vertical climbing workouts have been expanding their reach in recent years, as more people look for innovative and efficient ways of getting and staying fit. No longer just one of those neglected ...

The Dolorock Climbing Festival is back and for the eighth edition of the Dolomites climbing festival the organisers have devised a new formula: the meeting no longer takes place on a specific day, but ...