You might have seen it in the Olympics or at your local gym: Those five-pointed red holds snaking back-and-forth up a slightly-overhanging wall, and the climbers racing up them. The timers, the ...

Step into the thrilling world of speed climbing with none other than Ludovico Fossali, a true climbing pro and world champion. In "Fast and Fearless: Inside the World of Speed Climbing," we explore ...

With climbing playing a role in the Olympics, more people are being introduced to the sport. Included in the 2024 Paris Olympics are 3 disciplines of climbing: bouldering, lead, and speed. Speed ...

GoPro Mountain Games organizers and USA Climbing announced today that Olympic athletes have signed up to compete in the debut speed climbing competitions at this year’s event June 5-8. These new ...

Aleksandra Miroslaw added more history to an already groundbreaking week of sport climbing at the Tokyo Olympics, breaking the women's speed climbing world record in the discipline's final round.

Adam Ondra and Janja Garnbret, two of the world’s best climbers, are in the men’s and women’s finals, but can they succeed under the event’s quirky scoring system? By John Branch In sport climbing’s ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. For Olympic climber Brooke Raboutou, every wall is a puzzle to be solved ...

For the first time ever, climbers will compete for Olympic gold as sport climbing makes its Olympic debut at Tokyo's Aomi Urban Sports Park. It's a big deal for a sport with outdoor roots that has ...

For those who have not yet seen the sport of speed climbing, the concept is fairly simple. Imagine Spider-Man scrambling, blurry fast, up the side of a four-story building. Now picture another ...

Because of a complicated scoring system, it was often hard to know who was ahead in this mash-up of climbing disciplines making its Olympic debut. By John Branch TOKYO — What no one predicted about ...