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One for the rock climbing history books – female climbers Kelleghan and Pineau become first women to climb Yosemite Triple Crown
By Julia Clarke published
It's been 24 years since Dean Potter and Timmy O’Neil completed the first ascent of the Yosemite Triple Crown in a single day

Anraku finally beaten as France do the double in latest bouldering round of the Climbing World Cup, but bad weather calls an early halt again
By Will Symons published
France's Mejdi Schalck and Oriane Bertone won gold after the women's final was cancelled due to windy conditions in Prague

Rain stops play - stormy weather forces an early end to the latest Climbing World Cup round, with some unexpected medals as a result
By Will Symons published
USA's Emma Hunt and Indonesian Kiromal Katibin took gold after heavy wind and rain brought the contest to an abrupt close

Thousands of climbers gearing up to take on America's tallest mountain as the peak summer season gets underway
By Will Symons published
Dozens have already summitted Alaska's Denali mountain, which was controversially renamed Mount McKinley by Donald Trump earlier this year

Emily Harrington's big wall career will blow your mind, and now you can watch her record-breaking freeclimb of El Capitan on film
By Charlie Lyon published
The Girl Climber feature-length doc features 10 years of incredible footage, including the day Emily sent the Golden Gate route on El Capitan

As the Everest summit window draws to a close, records are smashed while others suffer bitter disappointment
By Charlie Lyon last updated
Revered mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa makes his 31st summit, while 29-year-old Tashi Gyalzen Sherpa summits four times in just 15 days

US mountaineer who claims to have climbed Everest in quickest time ever from sea to summit arrested in Nepal over cash smuggling allegations
By Charlie Lyon published
Andrew Ushakov, who climbed with the aid of Nims Purja's Elite Exped guides was detained at Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu

Setting the bar high - Irish climber David Fitzgerald sends what could be Yosemite’s hardest ever boulder problem
By Will Symons published
The Last Line of Defense boulder problem has a proposed rating of 8C+, which would make it one of the California park's toughest climbs

"I got scared, I tried hard, my heart was beating" - watch Czech climbing sensation Adam Ondra flash one of the world's toughest trad climbs
By Will Symons published
The infamous Lexicon E11 7a route was created in 2021, and is thought to be one of the most challenging trad routes ever climbed
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