Tori Ward fit the tips of her shoes onto "rocks" as small as a child's fist. From below, Molly Wick fed Ward rope as she made her ascent 10, 20, 30 feet in the air. Along the way, Ward clipped herself ...

In the months after she claimed a silver medal in sport climbing at the Paris Olympics, Brooke Raboutou returned to the place where she had once competed as a child prodigy: Arco, Italy. Just outside ...

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Rebecca Weber, a participant in the Women's Rockreation Club, scales a rock wall at The Quarry. The club was started to give female climbers a safe space to climb. (Jackie Durfey) The Women’s ...

This year’s North Face Climb Festival, the first held in New York, delivered on its promise of an adrenaline-bound community. With a 55-foot climbing wall anchored into the pier waters, onlookers ...

Katherine Cedro didn’t always consider herself a rock climber. The Wayne native embraced the sport when she was in college studying to become a nurse. She would climb on her own indoors, and ...

Ms. Rodden is a professional climber and the author of the forthcoming memoir, “A Light Through the Cracks.” I don’t know what time it was when my husband at the time, the rock climber Tommy Caldwell, ...

Bree Jameson combines her passion for rock climbing and desire to be a role model and trailblazer for women and people of color, not only in rock climbing but in outdoor sports. (Courtesy of Bree ...

Three women, and three climbs, which helped change the course of rock climbing: Luisa Iovane on Comeback in Val San Nicolò in 1986, Lynn Hill on The Nose in 1993 and Josune Bereziartu on Bain de Sang ...

Sasha Turrentine is a California-raised, Brooklyn-based photographer and writer. She contributes to Climbing, Alpinist, and Outdoor Research, and has shot for The North Face, Brooklyn Magazine, and ...

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