Five Things Friday – Sport Sends and Climbing News – 3rd May
Climbing news for the last week featuring Piotr Schab climbing his first 9b, IFSC World Cup news with Manuel Cornu and Janja Garnbret, Alex Puccio 8B+ boulder, Jim Pope film and more
YiLing Song Breaks Speed Climbing World Record at Chongqing
18 year old YiLing Song of China has broken the Women’s Speed Climbing World Record with a time of 7.101 seconds. Song broke the previous record by over two tenths of a second at the IFSC Climbing World Cup in Chongqing.
Five Things Friday – Climbing News – 19th April
Climbing news from Easter April 2019 featuring Janja Garnbret gold at IFSC Bouldering World Cups, Daniel Woods on The Kingdom, Seb Bouin 9b Mamichula and the Wide Boyz Black Mamba
The Best of Climbing April Fools 2019
The very best of this year’s Climbing April Fools’ Day 2019 products and news. Featuring a new addition to the Honnold Signature series, innovative sucker pads for route setters, gear for extreme weddings, and way more.
Five Things Friday – Top Climbing Stories – 29th March
Back again with another round up of the top climbing news stories from the news in the last week or so. It’s nearly the weekend so get pumped up and ready for the official start of the climbing season!
Chris Sharma sends new traverse / boulder problem 5.14d Super Blood Wolf Moon
Chris Sharma climbing his new traverse problem Super Blood Wolf Moon. Unroped and with a crash pad, this 25 metre, 30 move problem in Cova de Ocell is a bit of an odd one as it could just be seen as a boulder problem
Five Things Friday – Climbing news for friday blues – 15th March
The biggest climbing news from this week, with awesome big wall onsights, Lynn Hill still killing it, and the first repeat of possibly the world’s hardest boulder
The Impossible Climb by Mark Synnott – Book Review – The inside story behind Alex Honnold’s El Cap Free Solo
Alex Honnold climbed El Cap without a rope and lived for Mark Synnott to tell the tale. If you’re like us you’ve probably watched Free Solo and still want to know more about Honnold, or to be exact, you want to know what type of person would do anything like this.
Five Things Friday – Climbing news round up – 22nd Feb
This week’s climbing news – big rock chipping problems in Ten Sleep Canyon, more crazy hard sends by Ondra, backwards leg beta from Ashima Shiraishi, sad news from Ben Hope and more.
The Push by Tommy Caldwell – Book review
“The Push” is the Dawn Wall book, personal journey from the viewpoint of the man himself and does incredibly well in answering the questions we all had about the route and Tommy Caldwell