This year’s North Face Climb Festival, the first held in New York, delivered on its promise of an adrenaline-bound community. With a 55-foot climbing wall anchored into the pier waters, onlookers ...

Emily Harrington wants to be clear: She’s just following in the footsteps of the women who redefined rock climbing. When Lynn Hill used just her hands and feet to scale all 3,000 feet of El Capitan in ...

Rebecca Weber, a participant in the Women's Rockreation Club, scales a rock wall at The Quarry. The club was started to give female climbers a safe space to climb. (Jackie Durfey) The Women’s ...

The Colorado Rocky Mountain School Oysters found themselves at the summit of high school rock climbing once again in February. The Oysters’ varsity boys team repeated as state champions, while the ...

"Girl Climber," a new film screening at the Outside Festival this weekend, captures the grit and complexity of one of America's top climbers. Yes, Girl Climber has an oversimplified title. But it’s ...

Between the sounds of crunching dirt and the clinking of carabiners, words of encouragement and laughter filled the air at McDowell Mountain last month. “Everyone is so supportive and wonderful, and ...

SHANGHAI — Zhou Yinan is a bit of an anomaly among rock climbing enthusiasts in China — she is afraid of heights. “It’s actually quite scary to climb to the top of an indoor rock wall,” she admits. “I ...

Sport climbing is a sport that makes use of both the body and the brain to climb walls. Kasahara Konomi, a master at puzzles, just happens to discover her school’s climbing wall, and it looks almost ...

The sport doesn’t just have physical benefits—it’s a mental game. “Rock climbing fires every system of the body and mind.” A man boulders to the top of the Aguille de Joshua Tree in Joshua Tree ...

Emily Harrington wants to be clear: She’s just following in the footsteps of the women who redefined rock climbing. When Lynn Hill used just her hands and feet to scale all 3,000 feet of El Capitan in ...

The Hanamiya girls meet up at a speed wall for their speed climbing training. After Jun explains the rules of speed climbing to Konomi, she completes the climb where she learns that she needs to ...