LE BOURGET, France – On the first day of sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, the boulders won. They won’t medal, of course, or be fawned over by the crowd. But the man-made objects humbled ...

Still relatively wild and lonely, Ladakh offers a long summer climbing season and plenty of potential for exploration both for international teams and for young local climbers. Recently ...

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If American Sam Watson wins the inaugural Olympic gold medal in speed climbing—the new stand-alone event in which athletes scale a 15-m wall in around five sec., or less—he’ll have some ...

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The 58-year-old had been trying to scale Mount Huascaran when the avalanche struck, which presumably killed the three climbers. Police said Stampfl’s body and clothing had been preserved by the ...

Sport climbing consists of three separate disciplines: speed, bouldering and lead. At the last Olympics, one single combined event was held that incorporated all three disciplines. For the 2024 ...

A climber on Oregon’s Mt. Hood was rescued on Saturday after surviving a 700-foot fall on a steep, icy route near the mountain’s peak, officials said. Chris Zwierzynski, 55, of Arizona ...

On Thursday, Aug. 1, the climbers' bodies were located dangling from their climbing ropes at an altitude of roughly 2,000 meters (about 6,600 feet), according to a translated Facebook post from ...

Four decades ago, fragile falcon eggs were saved from certain death by Ken Yager and a small team of expert climbers from a nest on Yosemite’s El Capitan sheer granite wall, as protective ...

Here’s what you need to know about climbing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. When did climbing become an Olympic sport? Climbing debuted at the Tokyo Games of 2021. Prior to that, the sport first ...

Sport climbing, which debuted as an Olympic sport at the Tokyo 2020 Games, will return to the program at Paris 2024, with the first competition scheduled for Monday, August 5. A total of 68 ...