Check Out Alex Honnold’s Jaw-Dropping Home Climbing Gym Alex Honnold’s new family addition surely infringes on his free time. A simple climbing board can help. But Honnold, of course, goes big. Written by Seiji Ishii September 04, 2024
A Precise, Supportive, Light-on-the-Foot All-Arounder: SCARPA Arpia V Climbing Shoe Review The SCARPA Arpia V proved to be a great all-around intermediate shoe adept at both gym climbing and outdoor cragging. Written by Matt Samet July 17, 2024
Sport Climbing in the 2024 Paris Olympics: Qualifying Explained The road to the sport climbing events in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games is long and convoluted. Here’s our explainer. Written by Seiji Ishii May 20, 2024
Heinous Highball Bouldering in Bishop With Timmy Kang Among climbers, Bishop, Calif., is famous for its gigantic, egg-shaped boulders. How about sending five of the hardest climbs there in a single day? Written by Andrew McLemore April 18, 2023
Big Bouldering Deals Just in Time for Spring Find great deals on outdoor gear. That’s our goal each week. This week, save on bouldering essentials. Written by Austin Beck-Doss March 17, 2023
Climbing in Dubai: Who Knew? A bouldering YouTuber checks out some of the rocks near Dubai. Turns out there’s plenty of stellar climbing even up to hard grades. Written by Andrew McLemore January 23, 2023
Stefano Ghisolfi Hunts Bouldering Bliss in Bishop The latest vid from the Italian climbing pro sees him join other The North Face athletes in a fun romp through California’s bouldering epicenter. Written by Andrew McLemore January 03, 2023
A ‘Good Month’ for Drew Ruana: 7 V14 & V15 Sends, Including First Ascents With this iPhone edit, Drew Ruana shows a talent for understatement. He actually sent seven routes at V14 and above in less than a month. Written by Andrew McLemore November 15, 2022
Tension Board 2 Gets the Spray-Down With New Layout For climbers looking to attack their weaknesses, the Tension Board is a good place to start. Now, the mirrored board folds in a spray wall… Written by Sam Anderson October 31, 2022
For First Time Ever, IFSC Youth World Climbing Champs Come to US From August 22 to 31, the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s (IFSC) Youth World Championship will take over Dallas. Written by Jilli Cluff August 08, 2022
Crash Pads & Crack: Pete Whittaker Tries the World’s Hardest Crack Boulder In this cut, the crack king attempts to wrangle a 40-foot-long horizontal V13 boulder put up by his Wide Boyz co-conspirator, Tom Randall. Written by Jilli Cluff August 04, 2022
IFSC World Cup Climbing Rules & Scoring Explained Perplexed by the IFSC’s scoring system for World Cup climbing competitions? Here’s how to decrypt Boulder, Lead, and Speed stats. Written by Jilli Cluff July 29, 2022
Adam Ondra – Climbing Tick List & Accomplishments of 2022 What makes for a productive season when you’re Adam effing Ondra? We take a look at the best climber in the world’s year so far. Written by Jilli Cluff July 21, 2022
Watch Alex Puccio and Michaela Kiersch Crush a V13 Boulder in Switzerland In this stoke-intensive edit, we get to see Kiersch and Puccio run a send train on ‘Steppenwolf,’ V13/8B, in Magic Wood, Switzerland. Written by Jilli Cluff July 12, 2022
IFSC World Cup: Garnbret Returns, Plus Historic Wins for Duffy & Grossman This year’s IFSC Boulder, Lead, and Paraclimbing World Cups in Innsbruck, Austria, were full of surprises, reunions, and historic moments. Written by Jilli Cluff June 27, 2022
‘This Kid’: Will Bosi’s Bouldering Rampage Leaves Ondra Lost for Words We talked to the 23-year-old Bosi, who recently showed up on Adam Ondra’s doorstep and summarily crushed every climb he saw — V15 FA included. Written by Sam Anderson April 25, 2022
Canada Ships Boulders Cross-Country for Flatlands Climbers Come July 2022, a Canadian skatepark will be home to several 13-foot boulders. Calgary climbers, prepare your crashpads. Written by Jilli Cluff April 13, 2022
Vibin’ Out and Sendin’ Routes (or Boulders) With Brooke Raboutou Allez! Brooke Raboutou climbed a slew of classic, mega-hard boulder problems in Ticino, Switzerland, this winter. This video rounds them up and chills them out. Written by Sam Anderson April 06, 2022
Payson McElveen Crashes in Season Opener & More Stories to Start Your Week This is GJ’s wrap on exploration and adventure news of the week. Here’s what you missed, and a few things to look forward to. Written by Jilli Cluff March 13, 2022
Female Ultra Skier Crushes All-Time Record, Kelly Slater Surfs to 56th Career Win, & More Stories to Start Your Week This is GJ’s weekly wrap on exploration and adventure news of the week. Here’s what you missed this week, and a few things to look… Written by Jilli Cluff February 06, 2022
‘Lock Down Rock Up’: First Responder Eases Pandemic Problems Through Bouldering Award-winning short ‘Lock Down Rock Up’ documents how one paramedic turned to climbing as an outlet during quarantine. Written by Jilli Cluff January 11, 2022
Climbers Purchase ‘House Boulders’ to Boost IL Climbing Access ‘House Boulders’ is a new, 20-acre corridor acquired by the Access Fund and ICA. It offers 70+ problems and a potential boost to the economy. Written by Jilli Cluff November 09, 2021
Ski Resort, UDOT Expansion Plans Threaten Little Cottonwood Canyon Bouldering A ski transportation project will destroy many of Little Cottonwood Canyon’s boulders, and time to reverse plans is running out on September 3. Written by Sam Anderson August 27, 2021
The North Face x Mellow Film Documents Epic ‘Return of the Sleepwalker’ V17 Send Want to know what it takes to climb one of the hardest graded routes in the world? Watch this film. Written by Mary Murphy June 22, 2021
Watch Alex Honnold Go Bouldering in ‘Big Walls to Low Balls’ This casual film, “Big Walls to Low Balls,” focuses on Alex Honnold as he explores a few different boulder problems in Red Rock, Nevada. Written by Mary Murphy June 08, 2021
Watch: Daring, Ground-Up Ascents from Japanese Bouldering Phenom “I could fall right into the ocean.” Toru Nakajima climbs tall boulders from the ground up without cleaning the holds, rehearsing the moves on a… Written by GJ Staff November 20, 2017
