Climbing Magazine

2 weeks ago | climbing.com | Maya Silver

5 things the 5.15/V15 climber swears by Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. You can’t become the first woman to send both 5.15 and V15 without mad skills, a dedicated training ethic, grit—and some really good gear. We asked Michaela Kiersch to share some of her favorite products for performance, safety, and skincare. Here are her five things Kiersch won’t climb without, and why she loves them. 1.

2 weeks ago | climbing.com | Owen Clarke

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. Will Bosi continues to make the world’s hardest grade look like a habit. The Scottish boulderer has sent his fifth proposed V17 problem, Realm of Tor’ment at the limestone crag Raven Tor, in England’s Peak District. The 26-year-old is no stranger to the most difficult bouldering grade; he’s already sent more V17s than anyone else in history.

2 weeks ago | climbing.com | Alice Hafer

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. In the fall of 2018, I stood at the base of my current project: a 12a on a gray-brown cliff looming over the highway at Arizona’s Virgin River Gorge. Not even six months earlier, I had breached 5.14. But since then, everything had changed. Earlier that summer, while I was on my way back from a successful trip to Madagascar, my father had a stroke.

3 weeks ago | climbing.com | Emily Lapointe

For professional climber and Rab athlete Anna Hazlett (a.k.a. Anna Hazelnutt), a trip to El Salto, Mexico was about more than just pushing personal limits—it was a chance to reconnect with her heritage, build community, and rediscover the raw joy of adventure. Partnering with fellow Rab athlete Connor Runge—who had long been eyeing El Chamán Loco, Mexico’s hardest big wall climb—Hazlett spent months working the route’s 14 demanding pitches.

3 weeks ago | climbing.com | Owen Clarke

Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. On Saturday, May 10, three climbers were killed in a rappelling accident in Washington Pass’s Liberty Bell Group. A fourth member of the team narrowly survived the incident and is currently hospitalized.