Swiss athlete Petra Klingler is a pioneer in competitive climbing, having excelled in speed, boulder and lead in addition to mastering rock and ice climbing. Very few climbers, male or female, have ever competed at such high levels across so many disciplines. While her early successes were in lead climbing, she's gone on to become a world bouldering champion, world ice climbing champion, Swiss Champion in speed and bouldering and a European bronze medallist in bouldering. She also competed in the sport's Olympic debut at the 2020 Tokyo Games, finishing 16th.
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...
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Press Release Boulder UK Youth Plywood Masters, 2 – 3 August 2025