What is up with the youth of today? Is there something about this generation of iPad toting toddlers that allows them climb so hard? If you’ve been on the site lately, you may have noticed posts about Mirko Caballero, the 11-year-old who recently sent his first V12, and Ashima Shiraishi, who repeated Crown of Aragorn (V13) and won the youth female [...]
Mike Foley is at it again, tackling hard routes from the Northeast to the Great White North. Stationed in Squamish, B.C. while he earns his undergrad degree, the Massachusetts-born climber sent Silent Menace (5.14c) earlier this week. We interviewed Mike last year after his third ascent of Jaws II at Rumney, and are super proud to have such a strong dude representing the [...]
Eleven-year-old Mirko Caballero has been getting a lot of buzz recently, and for good reason. Born in Bedford, New Hampshire, Caballero has been climbing for most of his life and is quickly progressing in the competition world. At age 11, Caballero has already achieved things that many climbers dream of, including a sponsorship with Five Ten and sending some seriously [...]
On the 19th of January, David Lama ascended Cerro Torre and a piece of mountaineering history was written. He’s the first climber to have ever scaled the southeast face of the mountain without additional technical aid. It only took him three years worth of trying but hey, three is a lucky number, right? “I can’t believe it…” Lama writes on [...]
No matter what skill level you are, every climber can identify with the amazing feeling you have when you send a climb that is a step above what you normally do. Regardless of the rank of the climb, pushing yourself to your limit and succeeding is a feeling that can’t be matched. Sonnie Trotter’s, The Shadow sums this feeling up [...]
There is an obvious difference between the U.S.A. and the rest of the world when it comes to competitive climbing. North American may harbor some of the strongest and most media spotlighted climbers in the world, but when it comes to competitive climbing, it seriously lacks momentum. Compared to the rest of the world, it doesn’t really seem like we [...]
We’ve got some big news coming from way out in the boondocks of Northern Alaska. Patagonia climbers Hayden Kennedy and Tommy Caldwell have recently set up a new 1300 foot route (5.11+X, M2) on the Arrigetch Peaks in Alaska. To avoid the mosquitoes and the vegetation, the team decided to make this a winter excursion. However, while avoiding the summer [...]
You would have to try very hard to find a climb with Ueli Steck that doesn’t seem amazing, and this latest video is no exception. On this excursion, Ueli is joined by Jonathan Griffith in the Mont Blanc massif of the French Alps to climb the north face of Les Drus. It is always fun to watch the confidence and [...]
Maine native Dave Graham has been sending ridiculous problems for quite some time now, so it comes as no surprise that a new video is out showing him sending Memory is a Parallax (V14) out near Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Infamous for its absolutely brutal crimps, the problem has sent many climbers walking away nursing their fingers. Not [...]
Hot on the heels of news that Jason Kruk and Hayden Kennedy put up the first “fair means” ascent of the southeast ridge of Patagonia’s Cerro Torre, word has it that David Lama and partner Peter Ortner have established the first free ascent of the Compressor route. Controversy rages (as I write, there are 748 posts on this Supertopo thread) around [...]
