Free soloing means climbing with no rope or gear, a historic genre that in the late 1970s, through the Yosemite-based John Bachar--at the time nicknamed Mr. Norelco, after a "cordless" electric razor- ...

A climbing gym in St. George is offering free classes every Friday morning to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease and to ...

The goal is Taipei 101, a 508m-tall, 101-floor needle in Taiwan. Unlike most building soloists, he will not end up in ...

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When 21-year-old Lincoln Knowles spoke with GearJunkie this week, he had (of course) just finished another morning of climbing without a rope. He was attempting a two-pitch climb in Salt Lake City’s ...

SUNNYVALE — A decade ago, a crowd gathered on the rough gritstone of central England to watch Alex Honnold propel himself up a sheer wall of rock. But by the time the Sacramento native had reached the ...

Steven Potter is a digital editor at Climbing. He's been flailing on rocks since 2004, has successfully injured (and unsuccessfully rehabbed) nearly every one of his fingers, and holds an MFA in ...

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On the morning of June 30, Austin Howell, of Lombard, Illinois, was climbing without a rope in Linville Gorge, North Carolina. The 31-year-old first free-soloed a 350-foot swath of vertical sandstone.

Jeff Smoot begins his latest book, titled All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing, by describing a moment in the mid-1980s when his life nearly came to an end. Back then, Smoot was one of America’s ...