Coach Xian Goh shares an excerpt from her new climbing technique book Smooth...
'Climbing is special because we are constantly doing different things. No two climbs are exactly the same. Climbers too are unique, and often each climber will have a slightly different way of climbing up to the top. Even at the highest level, such as in the World Cup competitions, we see climbers of similar heights solving climbs with different beta. This suggests that there is no single best way but rather multiple equally good ways of climbing.'
Press Release Boulder UK Youth Plywood Masters, 2 – 3 August 2025
Fri Night Vid Mother Earth - 8b Trad in Australia
This week's Friday Night Video is about the pure obsession and effort behind a hard trad first ascent by Québécois/Australian Jacques Beaudoin. Mother Earth (8b) is a stunning sixty-degree thin crack climb hidden amongst bushland that has been...
Podcast Mountain Air - 11. Steph McKenna, Award-Winning Mountain Campaigner