

In late 2016 Pete Whittaker made an 'all-free' rope solo ascent of Freerider on El Capitan. The route took him 20 hours and 6 minutes, smashing the previous fastest time of 4 days. Pete flashed the route in 2014, perhaps making it the ideal route for him to try alone. Pete documented his big day and the resulting film is a fascinating insight into what it takes to complete a climb of that magnitude.
Read our interview with Pete about his rope solo here
In October 2011, Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk became the first people to climb Mt Meru via the Shark's Fin. Anker first attempted the route in 2003, but retreated. He returned in 2008 with Ozturk and Chin, to spend 19 gruelling days on the wall before turning back 100m from the summit. The route became somewhat of an...
Our Friday Night Video is an account of Hayden Kennedy and Nik Berry climbing The Hallucinogen Wall (5.13R) in Black Canyon. The route was originally established as a 16 pitch, A5 aid climb. Hansjörg Auer first free climbed the route in 2011. Jim Newberry named the route after all the climbers that would...
Our Friday Night Video this week is a battle on one of El Capitan's most formidable free routes - Zodiac. Babsi Zangerl and Jacopo Larcher attempt the 16-pitch route, which has sections as hard as 5.13d/8b. Until their ascent last November, Zodiac had only seen two previous free ascents.
This week's Friday Night Video is an excerpt from the classic film 'Onsight' from Al Lee at Posing Productions. In the clip, Pete Robins, Jack Geldard, Neil Dickson and James McHaffie all try the route Grave Diggers (E8 6c) ground up. They all appear to be well versed at ripping gear, scaring themselves and...
Fred Nicole first climbed Dreamtime at Cresciano in 2000 and it was the world's first 8C boulder problem. It became a symbol of hard bouldering throughout the 2000's, with many of the world's best climbers making the trip to climb the problem. Chris Sharma, Dave Graham, Malcolm Smith, Dai Koyamada and many more all helped to...
This week's Friday Night Video time travels to 2063. The sport of climbing has changed drastically, but the duo formerly known as the 'Wide Boyz' - Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall - haven't forgotten their halcyon days of gritstone adventures. As part of their annual birthday dress-up challenge, this year the pair aged considerably...
Eliot Stephens has returned from a fantastic two week trip to Magic Wood where he climbed New Base Line, a Bernd Zangerl 8B+....
The second round of the 2018 IFSC Boulder World Cup series took place in Moscow, Russia this weekend alongside the first round of...