This Week in Climbing #62 (May 21, 2017)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Dancing Sasquatch is New Multi-pitch 5.7 in Banff at Gripped Sebastian Pacey-Smith Sends Hard Nova Scotia Problems at Gripped New Ontario Eyeball Crag is Big Granite Wall at Gripped Marek Raganowicz…

This Week in Climbing #59 (April 2, 2017)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada It’s Spring Rock Climbing Season in Western Canada at Gripped New Guidebook: Sport Climbing in the Canadian Rockies at Gripped Patagonia Three Belgian climbers free 1200-meter route on Central Tower of…

This Week in Climbing #47 (December 18, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Luke Zimmerman Sends V13 on Cold West Coast at Gripped Venom and Antifreeze are New West Coast Mixed/Ice Lines at Gripped USA Israeli Sender Alex Khazanov Flashes Mandala V12 at Gripped…

This Week in Climbing #45 (December 4, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Ontario Climbers Climb Rocket Man in Rockies at Gripped Early Season Accidents in Rockies a Good Reminder at Gripped La Pomme d’Or is a Classic Canadian Ice Route in Quebec at…

This Week in Climbing #44 (November 27, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Two Big New Ice Routes Near Peyto Lake in Rockies at Gripped The 2016 Squamish Golden Scrub Brush Awards Announced at Gripped Kurt Ross and Colin Simon Climb Fat Rocket Man…

This Week in Climbing #43 (November 20, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada New Rockies Ice Route and Slow Start to Season at Gripped Kevin Wilson Sends First 5.14 with Repeat of Fit Bird Direct at Gripped Greenland Canadians Climb Big New Routes on…

This Week in Climbing #42 (November 13, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Shepherdess of the Glaciers Wins Grand Prize at Banff Mountain Festival 2016 at Gripped Quebec Climbing Legend François-Xavier Garneau Passes at Gripped Max Fisher and Fred Giroux Recieve 2016 John Lauchlan…

This Week in Climbing #41 (November 6, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Letter from ACC to Ontario MNR About Niagara Escarpment Closure at Gripped USA Adam Ondra Finds Dawn Wall Complex and Difficult at Gripped (And another update, and the most recent.) Tour de…

This Week in Climbing #39 (October 23, 2016)

  Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada The 2016/17 Bouldering Competition Schedule for Canada at Gripped New Rockies Dry-Tool Crag is Drive In Near Exshaw at Gripped Nova Scotia Second Edition Ice Guidebook Online for Free at…

This Week in Climbing #38 (October 16, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AFRICA Fred Nicole Climbs New V14/15 at Age 46 at Gripped AMERICAS Canada Julia Bobak and Marcel Aarden Send Hard Routes at Horne Lake at Gripped Access to Ontario Crags Along Niagara Escarpment…

This Week in Climbing #37 (October 9, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada West Coast’s Eldred River Valley Access Under Threat at Gripped New Brunswick’s 100-metre Cobblestone Wall is Wild at Gripped Mark Bramble Repeats Nearly 90-Pitch Yamnuska Traverse at Gripped USA Isabelle Faus…

This Week in Climbing #36 (October 2, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada New 5.11 in Quebec at Area Hopefully Open Soon at Gripped New Big Rock Climb on Bedson Ridge in Jasper at Gripped Patagonia Updated: Marc-Andre Leclerc Frees Titanic on Torre Egger…

This Week in Climbing #35 (September 25, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Julia Bobak of B.C. Sends Her First 5.13c by Gripped Third Ascent of House-Anderson for Hawthorn and Livingstone at UK Climbing (See also Planet Mountain.) Joe Skopec Sends All Bolted Routes Along…

This Week in Climbing #34 (September 18, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Daniel Martian Climbs New Ontario 5.14 at Lion’s Head at Gripped New Route on Mount Gimli’s South Face is Dark and Stormy at Gripped Patagonia Marc-Andre Leclerc Attempts Torre Egger Solo…

This Week in Climbing #33 (July 31, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AFRICA SOUTH AFRICA Monkey wedding, ~8C by Nalle Hukkataival at UK Climbing (See also Gripped.) AMERICAS CANADA Baffin Island, Ragni return after new routes at Planet Mountain Unrepeated Yamnuska Traverse Attempted in Single…

This Week in Climbing #32 (July 17, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS CANADA Sara Frangos Sends Planet X 5.13 at Gripped Luke Zimmerman Sends West Coast 5.14 at Gripped Baffin Island, new climbs and fresh information from the Italian-Belgian expedition at Planet Mountain USA…

This Week in Climbing #31 (July 3, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy, and happy climbing! Climbing News AMERICAS Bolivia Bolivia: Italians climb new route up Rumi Mallku at Planet Mountain Canada New Bouldering Area Near Squamish is the Constellations at Gripped Andy White Talks About the Boom in Okanagan Bouldering…

This Week in Climbing #19 (March 6, 2016)

Here’s all of the best and most interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy! Climbing News AMERICAS Canada Alannah Yip and Sean McColl are 2016 Canadian Champions at Gripped New Hard Sport Routes in Rockies at Gripped South America Patagonia: Riders on the Storm repeated by Mayan Smith-Gobat, Ines Papert and…

This Week in Climbing #18 (February 28, 2016 Edition)

Here’s all of the best and interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Enjoy! Climbing News AMERICAS Big Sends, More Bears, a Bad Fall and Avalanches in the Rockies at Gripped RIP: Steve Edwards at DPM (See also DPM.) New Ontario Select Rock Climbing Guidebook and App are Cutting Edge at Gripped Remembering…

This Week in Climbing #17 (February 21, 2016 Edition)

Thanks for hanging in there as I took a few weeks off! Here’s all of the interesting rock climbing stuff that happened over the last week. Climbing News AMERICAS Puccio and Schubert Win Hueco Rock Rodeo at DPM Youth Bouldering Nationals Finals Results at Gripped Lucie Hrozová Sets Standard With New M15 In Colorado at Gripped (See…

This Week in Climbing #16 (January 31, 2016 Edition)

Here’s all the interesting stuff that went on in the rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering world during the week of January 24 to January 31, 2016. Climbing News AMERICAS New Fitz Roy Route and Patagonia Season Highlights at Gripped American Alpine Club Announces 2016 Award Recipients at Climbing Remembering Iñaki Coussirat at Planet Mountain Climbers…

Image: Screenshot from the video of The Kraken (V13].

This Week in Climbing #15 (January 24, 2016 Edition)

Image: Screenshot from the video of The Kraken (V13]. Here’s all the interesting stuff that went on in the rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering world during the week of January 18 to January 24, 2016. Climbing News AFRICA Blasting in Montagu – Road / Crag / Hiking Closures at Climb ZA CityROCK Cape Town…

This Week in Climbing #14 (January 17, 2016 Edition)

Here’s all the interesting stuff that went on in the rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering world during the week of January 11 to January 17, 2016. Climbing News AFRICA Bouldering in Table Mountain National Park is LEGAL at Climb ZA AMERICAS Mason Earle Wins $1,000 by Onsighting Indoor Crack at Climbing – And it goes at 5.12+/5.13-….

This Week in Climbing #13 (January 10, 2016)

Here’s all the interesting stuff that went on in the rock climbing, ice climbing, and mountaineering world during the week of January 4 to January 10, 2016. Climbing News AMERICAS Necessary Evil (5.14c) for B. J. Tilden at DPM New Ice Crag in Northern Ontario at Gripped AAC Supports Two Cutting-Edge Expeditions at Climbing Richard Wright…

This Week in Climbing #12 (January 3, 2016)

Here’s everything that went down in the rock climbing world from December 28 to January 3. Climbing News AMERICAS Big New Ice Climbs in British Columbia at Gripped In Memoriam: Ryan Jennings at Alpinist New Thin Ice Routes in Northern Ontario at Gripped AAC President Doug Walker Dies at Climbing (See also Gripped, Alpinist.) Canadians…

This Week in Climbing #10 (December 20, 2015)

Here’s all the climbing news fit to print from December 14 through December 20. Climbing News AFRICA Never the Same, first free ascent on Tsaranoro Atsimo in Madagascar by Polo, Gorobey and Giuliberti at Planet Mountain AMERICAS Cerro San Lorenzo new Slovenian climbs in Patagonia at Planet Mountain Ice Climbing World Cup 2016: Maxim Tomilov…

This Week in Climbing #9 (December 13, 2015)

Sorry this edition of This Week in Climbing is a couple days late, but better late than never, right? Climbing News AFRICA Rock Master 2015 Results at Climb ZA AMERICAS New V14 in Joe’s Valley by Matthew Fultz at DPM Sarah Hueniken Sets Standard With M14 Send at Gripped Legendary Climber Doug Tompkins Dies in Kayaking…

This Week in Climbing #4 (November 8, 2015)

Check out everything that happened in the rock climbing world over the last week! Climbing News Slovenians climb new routes in Kyrgyzstan at Planet Mountain Stefano Ghisolfi frees Lapsus at Andonno, Italy’s first 9b sports climb at Planet Mountain (Also at UK Climbing, Gripped, DPM, and Climbing. Also see this other Planet Mountain post.) Quebec’s…

This Week in Climbing #3 (November 1, 2015)

Here’s your weekly dose of rock climbing goodness! New on The Undercling What does “SDS” mean in bouldering? Climbing News Oriane Bertone is 10 and Sends Another V11 at Gripped Niccolò Ceria cruises Moon’s Voyager at Planet Mountain (See also DPM.) Voodoo-Zauber, new rock climb up Dolomites Heiligkreuzkofel by Simon Gietl and Andrea Oberbacher at Planet…

This Week in Climbing #2 (October 25, 2015)

Here’s the best stuff from the online climbing world over the past week. Enjoy! Climbing News Brilliant New Route in Remote Patagonia at Climbing Ed Douglas Awarded Best Mountaineering Article at Alpinist Monk Life 8B+ for 16 year-old William Bosi at UK Climbing Swiss trio climb three virgin summits in India’s Kashmir Himalaya at Planet…

This Week in Climbing! (October 18, 2015)

Here’s the best stuff of the last week from the online climbing world. Gear/Reviews Field Tested Review: Austrialpin Wall Hammer at The Alpine Start Game Changer – Offset Superlight Rocks at Andy-Kirkpatrick.com Massive! 12-Inch Rock Climbing Cam Anchor at Gear Junkie Mammut Eternity Dry 9.8 Rope Review at Splitter Choss Other Articles PLATEAUING ON YOUR…

Weekly Rock Climbing News and Article Roundup (#1)

Here are last week’s great climbing-related news items and articles to get you psyched. The tragic tale of Mt. Everest’s most famous dead body (BBC) Get Inspired: How Jake McManus got off the ground (BBC) Can You Hear Me Now? (Sondry) – An Everest-related article by the widow of Scott Fisher, a climber who died during…

Climber Sean “Stanley” Leary Dies in a BASE Jumping Accident Near Zion National Park

Big wall climber, big wall speed ascensionist, and BASE jumper Sean “Stanley” Leary died in a BASE jumping accident near Utah’s Zion National Park on March 13. Further details about the circumstances surrounding his death (i.e., the events that led to his death) seem to be unknown. Deaths are not uncommon in either the climbing…