Britain's Pete Whittaker is one of the world's most experienced trad climbers with cutting-edge first ascents and hard repeats to his name. These span the spectrum, from short and desperate gritstone ...

Dried blood, scabs, swollen fingers, chalk-encrusted cuticles, unexplained bruises ... it's just another day of crack climbing, a niche of rock climbing that involves climbing what isn't there. Rather ...

Climbing is literally a steep learning curve, but you can flatten the bell with advice for climbers who have been at it and have excelled. Climbers such as Paige Classen and Neil Gresham. Happily, ...

Vedauwoo, WY, is known for a lot of things. It's known for flaring cracks and bruised knees, shattered egos, and some of the hardest trad lines in the Rockies. It's also known for a truly ...

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Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

Pain is a great teacher. While learning the subtle art of crack climbing through years of twisting various body parts in various fissures is the venerable and accepted way, many climbers have an issue ...

Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker completed a 2,500-foot roof crack under a freeway in Devon, England, their latest in a series of bridge climbs since they started scaling concrete in 2020 UK climbers ...

After climbing about 15 feet up the vertical rock wall, I came to the crux. It’s what rock climbers call the hard part. The only thing the rock offered me was a flaring-out crack for about 12 feet. I ...