Climbing has become an increasingly popular sport, especially among college students, and University of Minnesota students do not seem to be immune from the bouldering bug. The new Climbing Training ...

San Francisco’s waterfront was reimagined last weekend as both stage and summit. At Climb Fest 2025, The North Face transformed the city into a proving ground where the sublime grit of climbing ...

Reviewing sport climbing's biggest stories, replays, medal results, top athletes, and new records at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In the early days of rock climbing, athletes had a simple choice: Slip on a pair of rubber-soled high-tops or don a pair of heavy hiking boots. Suffice to say, footwear was limited and unsuited to the ...

Stair climbing gets the heart pumping quickly, as anyone who’s ever skipped the elevator or escalator knows. That makes it an excellent low-impact exercise that’s as accessible as walking, since ...

Hannah Zook, a third-year University of Virginia student from Sterling, was 4 when she tried adaptive climbing for the first time at a recreation center. Now, she’s scaling walls the world over. “I ...

Some 26 years ago, the legendary American climber Lynn Hill and all-star team were busy developing what was, at the time, the most difficult big wall climb ever sent by an all-female group. Madagascar ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK -- A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, marking the third death in the park this summer. Balin Miller, 23, died in a climbing ...

The man, Kokichi Akuzawa, said he woke up at 5 a.m. every morning for three months to train for the feat Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...