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Rock climbing

November 2024

  • Paul Sagar climbing in the Swiss alps in 2019.

    ‘It has been a year since I felt joy’: Paul Sagar on coming to terms with the climbing accident that paralysed him

    A 20-metre fall while mountaineering left the academic and philosopher with life-changing injuries. In this extract from his diary, his clear-eyed willingness to confront his situation leads to some breathtakingly honest reflections

September 2024

  • Ashley Loveday, 15, climbing one of the walls at Clip ’n Climb in Cambridge

    Olympic champion Toby Roberts’ example is sending young people up the wall

    Climbing centres across the UK report surge in interest since ‘the Terminator’ struck gold in Paris

August 2024

  • Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits

    Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits review – Czech Spider-Man climbs all the way to Olympics

    Jan Šimánek and Petr Záruba’s intimate documentary reveals the vulnerabilities behind sporting success as rock climber Ondra trains for Tokyo 2020

July 2024

  • This photo distributed by the Peruvian National Police shows police carrying a body that they identify as U.S. mountain climber William Stampfl, on Huascaran mountain in Huraz, Peru, July 5, 2024. Peruvian authorities announced on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, that they have found the mummified body of the American man who died 22 years ago, along with two other American climbers, after the three were trapped in an avalanche while trying to climb Peru's highest mountain. (Peruvian National Police via AP)

    US mountaineer buried by avalanche 22 years ago found preserved in ice, police say

    William Stampfl tried to climb Mount Huascarán in 2002 with two friends, one was found and one is still missing

May 2024

  • Looking down on Longsleddale, Lake District.

    Country diary
    Country diary 1974: a new staircase to the heights

    13 May 1974: Not mentioned in any guide book, this natural route to the summit seems to have been missed by all but the ravens

April 2024

  • MEMORIAL bomb/file 2<br>File dated 30/4/1999 of the scene in the Soho area of London after a nailbomb explosion in the Admiral Duncan Public House

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Fragments – The London Nail Bombings; Chasing Mountains; Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones!; How Was It for You? – review

    Powerful first-person accounts of a London terror attack; a race to climb the world’s highest peaks; and two comedies, one magnificently silly, the other soothingly everyday

January 2024

  • Brittany Leavitt, executive director of Brown Girls Climb, bouldering.

    ‘I don’t have to code-switch’: how Black and brown rock climbers are revamping the sport

    People of color are carving out safe spaces for themselves within the white male-dominated activity

November 2023

  • A rock climber hangs on a rope below an overhanging cliff

    The age of extinction
    Rock climbers like to connect with nature – but are they also destroying it?

    Outdoor climbing has boomed in popularity worldwide but some experts say the pursuit can push vulnerable cliff-dwelling species to the brink

October 2023

  • Smith Rock Morning Glory and Picnic Lunch Walls with Crooked River. Image shot 06/2007. Exact date unknown.<br>AD5KWX Smith Rock Morning Glory and Picnic Lunch Walls with Crooked River. Image shot 06/2007. Exact date unknown.

    Man arrested over alleged mass shooting plot at Oregon climbing event

    A man has been arrested in Oregon over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a rock climbing event

May 2023

  • Murdo and his daughter pause as they approach the summit of Mitre Peak, a spectacular mountain and lake view around them

    Self and wellbeing
    Climbing Mitre Peak seems daunting to Murdo MacLeod – but he doesn’t want to let his daughter down…

  • Lordi

    Hard rock hallelujah! How metal found an unlikely home at Eurovision

March 2023

  • Ugurapal man Kruze Summers at Minto Crag, an ancient basalt rock formation near Croftby, Queensland.Photo by Dan Peled.

    ‘Too special a place’: how an eclectic Queensland alliance saved a sacred site from rock climbers

    As the state moves to protect Indigenous site Whinpullin, or Minto Crag, climbing groups realise ‘you can’t just go charging in’

January 2023

  • An image of Alaskan mountains. ‘It’s a sad truth, especially in the adventure community, when people encounter life-altering injuries, the toll that they take is devastating on relationships in many instances.’

    ‘The story was so remarkable’: what happened after a devastating climbing accident

    In a fascinating new book, climber and author Michael Wejchert tells of two couples, remote mountains in Alaska and the tragedy that followed

November 2022

  • Fred Smith

    Other lives
    Fred Smith obituary

    Other lives: Climber who was instrumental in setting up of the Merseyside Mountaineering Club

October 2022

  • Iranian climber feared missing greeted by cheering crowd at Tehran airport – video

    Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi received a jubilant welcome on her return to Tehran 

September 2022

  • Gavin Escobar played for the Cowboys from 2013 to 2016

    Former Dallas Cowboy Gavin Escobar dies in apparent climbing accident at 31

    Former Dallas Cowboys tight end Gavin Escobar has died at the age of 31 after an apparent rock climbing accident

May 2022

  • 'Never thought about stopping': Shauna Coxsey on climbing while pregnant – video

  • Shauna Coxsey bouldering while pregnant

    ‘I’m a pregnant woman making choices’: Shauna Coxsey on climbing – and the ‘bullies’ who want her to stop

April 2022

  • The Wall of Shadows

    The Wall of Shadows review – Sherpas caught between a rock and a hard place

  • Sports scientist Anika Frühauf says climbing therapy ‘was shown to reduce depression and anxiety as well as enhance self-efficacy’.

    ‘My head was completely free’: the rise of climbing as therapy

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