UKC

2015 was a year of contrasting headlines in the climbing world. Our microcosm of climbing news reached the mainstream media in a way that has never before been achieved: live Tweets and interviews from the Dawn Wall, elaborate digital features in the New York times and hopes of competition climbing becoming an Olympic discipine in Tokyo 2020 were just some of the many highlights.

Here are just some of the more light-hearted and surprising moments that we wouldn't have expected from 2015, which attracted the most number of hits this year.