More Hard Sport Routes in Spain
Thanks to James for compiling this news In more sport climbing news: Patxi Usobiaga: repeated La Rambla (9a+) on Nov 27, 2007 at Siurana, Spain. The route had its first ascent by R...
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Appeared in 177 posts between 2007 and 2015.
Ten years later
Still the benchmark. Ondra established the first 9c (Silence, 2017) and has spent the years since pushing the ceiling higher with more 9b+ and 9c projects. He competed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paris 2024, finishing 4th in combined at Paris. Still projecting routes nobody else dares attempt.
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Thanks to James for compiling this news In more sport climbing news: Patxi Usobiaga: repeated La Rambla (9a+) on Nov 27, 2007 at Siurana, Spain. The route had its first ascent by R...
As usual, I go out of town and a ton of things happen: Last week Ty Landman visited Squamish and did what he normally does, which is climb hard problems. He did 1 V13 and a couple...
I haven't heard of such an area in the U.S. but apparently over in Europe chalk is banned from being used on certain types of rock at certain climbing areas. Adam Ondra , who...
Adam Ondra has repeated Alex Huber's 1996 testpiece Open Air at Austria's Schleier Wasserfall, suggesting a grade of 5.15a for the route.
A review of the latest release from Sender Films: The Sharp End
Looking for more on Big Up's latest movie Progression and Chris Sharma's Jumbo Love? Check out these posts ! The dust has settled on Chris Sharma sending his project at Clark Mt. ,...
15 year old Adam Ondra has repeated Wolfgang Gullich's Action Directe (5.14d) in Germany's Frankenjura. Read more at Czechclimbing and climbing.com .
I have another interesting topic for discussion tomorrow, but in the meantime here are a few links for your perusal: If you enjoy salivating over the posts at the Betabase blog , y...
Not much Earth shattering news going down lately but here are a few things to check out from the past few weeks: Joe Kinder prepared nicely for his 2 month trip to Spain with his r...
15 year old Adam Ondra continues to amaze. In the course of one day he sent Sanjski Par Extension (5.14d), Človek e jezi se (5.14c) and Popolni mrk (5.14b) all at Slovenia's Misja...
Just an update on Beth Rodden's new 5.14 trad route Meltdown . Big Up Productions was there filming her work on the route for the upcoming Dosage 5. Big Up shares their first hand...
Another week, another impressive piece of news from Czech youngster Adam Ondra. UPDATED with a link to video of Daniel Woods doing the problem as well as additional details.
80 minutes of extras from Big Up Productions' Progression are now available for download
The top posts and videos on Climbingnarc.com for November 2009
A few News & Notes as I get caught up from nearly 2 weeks away from a computer
A review of Progression, the latest release from Big Up Productions
A likely sign of things to come, Adam Ondra has done the FA of what he considers his hardest route yet at a crag near Sardinia, Italy. Dubbed Marina Superstar , Ondra felt the rout...
News & Notes to wrap up the week...
News & Notes from Dave Graham, Tommy Caldwell, the Hubers, Adam Ondra and much more...
Interview with Josh Lowell about Big Up Productions latest movie, Progression, that features Chris Sharma, Tommy Caldwell, Kevin Jorgeson, Paul Robinson, Daniel Woods and others pu...
To wrap up the discussion from last week about the perceived superiority of European sport climbers compared to American sport climbers is this guest post by Urban Climber Editor J...
As climbers, we often utilize a wide array of excuses for not sending our latest project. One I’ve started working in to my repertoire is that I’m simply “too old” to do something...
News from Jon Cardwell, Adam Ondra and Paul Robinson. Notes from Chris Sharma, the Reel Rock Tour and more...
Alex Johnson will be the lone U.S. participant in the 23rd Arco Rock Master this weekend. UPDATED with Results.
One of America's brightest young rock stars finishes on the podium at the 2009 World Youth Championships in Valence, France. UPDATED
I’m still decompressing and trying to catch up after being on the road for the past 10 days, but here is a bit of news to tide you over. UPDATED TWICE
Results from the 2009 Climbing World Championships held in Qinghai, China
News from Joe Kinder, Brad Weaver, Chuck Odette, Adam Ondra, Andy Raether and more
Adam Ondra has done the first repeat of the hardest route in Frankenjura, Germany, Markus Bock’s Corona (5.15a). Pictures from Vojtech Vrzba .
News & Notes returns...
Big Up Productions is hard at work in Spain filming their next movie Progression. As usual, Chris Sharma is one of their main subjects, but we will be treated to more of a Europea...
News & Notes from Shawn Diamond, Alex Johnson, Matt Segal, Matt Wilder, Tim Clifford and much more...
According to his scorecard Adam Ondra did his 2nd V15 in as many days yesterday with a repeat of Dave Graham's From Dirt Grows The Flowers in Chironico, Switzerland. On Monday he r...
Feast on the latest edition of News & Notes with news about several repeats of Dave Graham V15s in Europe, a tragic accident in Red Rocks, a lesson about the importance of helmets...
Check out which posts and videos you were clicking on the most during the month of October 2010
Adam Ondra (not pictured) took a break from school at the end of last month to go to Madagascar of all places and, as usual, he did not leave empty-handed.
Here are the most popular posts and videos for September 2010
News & Notes from the European Championships, Alex Honnold, Steve Wempler and more
News & Notes from Adam Ondra, Brent Perkins, Phil Schaal, Black Diamond and MUCH more...
After a quiet month of July, which mainly stemmed from my 2 week vacation, ClimbingNarc.com was firing on all cylinders during the month of August. Here is what you were reading a...
A few notable sends that caught my eye recently and sad news from the Alps...
Youth seems to be the theme of this edition of News & Notes...
Adam Ondra and Akiyo Noguchi win the Bouldering World Cup in Munich & they win the overall title for the 2010 Bouldering World Cup as well
A little love for Rocklands local Arjan de Kock
A few stories from the past few weeks that caught my eye including World Cup Bouldering, climbing on El Cap and more...
Popular posts & videos for June 2010
Results from the 2010 Bouldering World Cup event held in Vienna, Austria as well as a few thoughts on the upcoming World Cup at the 2010 Teva Mountain Games
American Alex Johnson wins the first bouldering World Cup event of the 2010 season. UPDATED
UKClimbing has a long and extensive interview with Adam Ondra discussing his recent visit to the UK which saw Ondra repeat 2 5.14d's and onsight several 5.13d's.
A special Access edition of News & Notes with additional news from Adam Ondra, Jimmy Webb, Dai Koyamada and more...
Popular posts and videos for April 2010
Over the weekend at Petrohrad in the Czech Republic Adam Ondra climbed 17 problems V9 and harder including the FA of a V14 called Stix SD .
Black Diamond has an interesting essay on their journal site that details Adam Ondra's impressive sends in 2008 of WoGü (5.14b, 7 pitches, FFA) and Hotel Supramonte (5.14a, 10 pitc...
News & Notes from Daniel Woods, Chuck Fryberger, Paul Robinson, the Teva Mountain Games and more...
A pair of excellent interviews with Czech climbing prodigy Adam Ondra
Popular posts and videos for March 2010
Adam Ondra ticks one of his hardest yet...UPDATED
Could you be bribed to give up climbing forever? How much would it cost??
News & Notes from Chris Sharma, Daila Ojeda, Chris Webb Parsons, Hueco Rock Rodeo Results and much more...
A note about the ClimbingNarc.com Facebook page as well as a summary of popular posts and videos for January 2010
A look back at what was making news the last 3 months of 2009
News & Notes from Matt Wilder, Paul Robinson, Daniel Woods and MORE. Updated 1/12/10.
A look back at what was making news the months of July, August and September of 2009
A look back at what was making news April through June of 2009
A look back at what was making news the first 3 months of 2009
A look at Dead Point Magazine's new pay video area dubbed "The Stash"
Adam Ondra does it again...
The most popular posts and the highest rated videos for November 2011
Daniel Woods gets really "next level" with things by flashing a Fred Nicole testpiece in Switzerland
Adam Ondra keep cleaning up projects near his home in the Czech Republic
Was Alex Honnold on TV or something???
I would generally have more to say on a Video Friday such as today but I'm currently doing this: Hopefully things are looking this good wherever you're climbing this weekend, and h...
Adam Ondra and Daniel Woods each add proposed V15s to Petrohrad and Magic Wood respectively
Despite some challenging conditions Dai Koyamanda, Adam Ondra and Daniel Woods have all been getting it done on the boulders of Switzerland of late.
Popular posts and videos for September 2011
A final update from Adam Ondra's most recent trip to Rocklands, South Africa
Another day at the office yields 5.15 and V15 FAs for Adam Ondra and a 5.14a onsight for Sasha DiGiulian
The most popular posts & videos from August 2011
Adam Ondra has wrapped up his trip to Rocklands, South Africa, and in addition to the earlier repeats he added flashes of Leopard Cave (V12) and the likely 3rd ascent of Fred Nicol...
Literally as she was turning 21 years of age France's Charlotte Durif redpointed PPP (5.14d) at Grotte de Galetas in France's Verdon Gorge according to a posting on her website . F...
Fresh off overall gold at the World Championships and quickly redpointing two 5.14d's, Adam Ondra has taken his talents to Rocklands, South Africa
A chance for you to win something for free and a few thoughts on The Schengen Files, The Swiss Account, Better Than Chocolate and Midwest Unknown just as soon as the cops are done...
The most popular posts and videos for July 2011
Adam Ondra checks in with his 8a scorecard to report that he sent two Chris Sharma 5.14d's in Margalef, Spain in Gancho Perfecto and Era Bella, with the latter going down 2nd try....
Adam Ondra and Sasha DiGiulian highlight the results from the 2011 Climbing World Championships that took place in Arco, Italy
Urban Climber has posted the big feature interview they did for a recent issue with Adam Ondra . A lot of interesting tidbits throughout so definitely check this one out if you can...
A few words about the end of my trip to Colorado, the schedule for the Bouldering World Cup in Sheffield this weekend and Video Friday videos
Peter Beal caught up with Daniel Woods to do an interview for Beal's upcoming book's website
To go along with today's Video Friday post is this excellent recap of Adam Ondra's trip to the UK which includes footage of him sending Overshadow (5.15a) and onsighting Bat Route...
A look back at the stories and videos you were clicking on the most in May of 2011
Not much doing on the news front from the weekend, but there are a few interviews done recently with Jimmy Chin, Chuck Fryberger and Petr Pavlicek that I thought were worth sharing...
Before the videos get started I wanted to offer a little more background on the video of Adam Ondra's FA of Chaxi Raxi (5.15b) . Writing on his newly redesigned blog , Andrew Bisha...
Adam Ondra returns to England to nab the 2nd ascent of Steve McClure's Overshadow (5.15a) at Malham Cove. UPDATED
iCLIMB.com brings us a nice video profile of Italy's Christian Core
Since turning 30 a few weeks back do you think Chris Sharma spends his free time watching the Climbing After 30 series to keep his motivation up?? Whatever he's doing is working b...
A look back at the stories and videos you were clicking on the most in April of 2011
A few News & Notes from Nik Berry, Daniel Woods, Adam Ondra, the Petzl Roc Trip China, a new iPhone app guidebook for Joshua Tree and more
Adam Ondra does his 4th 5.15b of the year...and it's only April
Chris Sharma nabs the long-awaited FA of his First Round First Minute project in Margalef, Spain
A pair of international comps went down over the weekend in Canada at the Canadian Bouldering Championships and in Milan, Italy at the 1st leg of the 2011 World Cup that featured s...
PlanetMountain has an excellent interview with Adam Ondra discussing his quick repeat of Chilam Balam (5.15b) last week .
Adam Ondra makes quick work of one of the world's hardest and most notorious unrepeated routes
News & Notes from Nina Caprez, Cedric Lachat, Kevin Jorgeson, Fred Nicole and much more...
Somber news about Renan Ozturk and Jimmy Chin and amazing video of Adam Ondra onsighting 5.14c in Oliana
If there is one recurring theme about my climbing you probably picked up from reading this site over the years is that I get injured. A lot. In fact, injury was the main impetus fo...
A look back at the stories and videos you were clicking on the most in March of 2011
Videos from Cuba, Sweden, Australia and more...
Adam Ondra's 2 week holiday to Spain ended with a 5.15b FA and 5.14c onsight at Oliana
News & Notes from Adam Ondra, Daniel Woods and much more...
With the warm up out of the way, Adam Ondra turns his attentions to more long term challenges on his current road trip to Spain. News also from Daila Ojeda...
Bourbon talk and excellent videos from Arkansas, the UK, Yosemite and Rifle
Following up on this week's news about Adam Ondra onsighting multiple 5.14cs is this interview he did discussing these ascents with PlanetMountain.com. Among the factors that contr...
Adam Ondra actually improves on his recent "world record" of 2 5.14cs in 2 days by doing 2 in one day!
Adam Ondra builds on his recent 5.15b FA by onsighting 2 5.14cs in Extauri, Spain
Popular posts and the most highly rated videos for February of 2011
Just weeks after his 18th birthday Adam Ondra does the FA of perhaps his hardest route yet in Siurana, Spain
Popular posts and the most highly rated videos for January of 2011
Thoughts about last weekend's Quick on the Draw climbing comp as well as the most popular videos of the past week
Thoughts on an upcoming climbing comp and videos from Joe Kinder, Jimmy Webb and Adam Ondra
The top climbing videos of 2013 based on your votes and views
Something happened to me over the weekend that hasn't happened in some time: I was blown away watching a climbing movie
Nice piece by Rannevig Aamodt in Rock & Ice about Adam Ondra's work this past summer in the Hanshelleren Cave in Flatanger, Norway: Hours later I was startled awake by Ondra standi...
Adam Ondra has done his 3rd 5.15c FA 1 with the FA of Vasil Vasil at Sloup in his native Czech Republic. Ondra comments on the route in this interview with UKC : It might be weird...
Nice interview with Adam Ondra by Fitz Cahall as part of Ondra's being nominated for Nat Geo's Adventurer of the Year: I think sport climbing is still a relatively young sport. Not...
Adam Ondra puts the rest of the World Cup circuit on notice: Valence in France: this was the stage chosen by Adam Ondra to celebrate his return to the Lead World Cup after three ye...
Adam Ondra's return to the Lead World Cup circuit seems as good a time as any to get back on the bandwagon and check out some of the world's best sport climbers as they compete thi...
Adam Ondra is set to compete in the upcoming Lead World Cups in Valence, France and in Kranj, Slovenia , but before doing that he's made a stop in the Frankenjura where he's done t...
DPM catches up with the relatively unknown Andrew Palmer after his repeat of Jaws II (5.15a) in Rumney, NH: I never really thought Jaws II was possible for me but it’s the next ind...
Nice interview with Adam Ondra reflecting on his 15 months as a full-time climber: No, I wasn’t tempted to . Because I know that if I didn’t have to be home to study, it would be h...
The 2013 Portland Boulder Rally and the highest rated videos of the past week
It looks like Adam Ondra's season in Norway has come to an end, but not before he added two more 5.15s up there with the FAs of Hell Racer (5.15a) in Hell and Kangaroo's Limb (5.15...
Congrats to Adam Ondra and Mina Markovic who were awarded the Salewa Rock Award and the La Sportiva Competition Award at this past weekend's Arco Rock Legends ceremony in Arco, Ita...
The highest rated videos of the past week
Do not adjust your computer. This is just how fast Adam Ondra climbs these days. On a related note: could anyone else make something like the bottom part of Move look so easy yet h...
The highest rated videos of the past week
Once again Adam Ondra has established a route in the mid-5.15 range in the Hanshelleren cave in Flatanger, Norway, this time with the route he's calling Move . Here's how he descri...
Adam Ondra continues to use the Hanshelleren cave in Flatanger, Norway as his personal 5.15 playground, this time with the FA of Iron Curtain (5.15b). Lest you think 5.15b has beco...
I don't know how you warm up for your 5.14d onsights, but this is what Adam Ondra did : Well, I tried a route which I thought was 8a and fell off at about half-height. But I wasn't...
Kairn.com reports in French that Adam Ondra has done his long-awaited 5.14d onsight with his first go send of La cabane au Canada in Rawyl, Switzerland. Long expected to be the fir...
The highest rated videos of the past week
Adam Ondra is back in Norway for the summer
Adam Ondra notches 5.14c onsight #15 if you're scoring at home. I'm starting to think this kid has a bright future in this here climbing game.
The highest rated videos of the past week
Nice write-up with pictures from Henning Wang by Magnus Midtbø about his onsight of Cosi fan tutti (5.14c) in Rodellar, Spain: It was a very satisfying feeling to for once win a de...
Aussie James Kassay has flashed Dave Graham's Sideways Daze (V13) in Fontainebleau, France. This is the 2nd V13 (or harder) flash in the forest after Adam Ondra flashed Gecko Assis...
The most popular posts and videos for March 2013
If you had Adam Ondra in the office pool for who would be the first to onsight 5.14d you just lost. Probably.
Chris Sharma finishes his hardest route yet
Finally . Other than the sheer absurdity of the number, what I find most interesting about this is that Ondra did his first 5.14d way back in 2006 when he was just 13. Since then a...
The highest rated videos of the past week...
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Adam Ondra, in an interview with Evening Sends : For me, however, it takes less time to adapt because I have climbed many kilometers of rock in my life—on all kinds rock and differ...
In addition to the lead competition won by Adam Ondra and Jain Kim , the Paraclimbing World Championships also happened last weekend in Gijon, Spain. Climbing.com has the full brea...
Adam Ondra and Jain Kim win the 2014 Lead World Championships
Epic TV chats with Adam Ondra
The highest rated videos of the past week...
After a thrilling battle Saturday night that saw both the men's and the women's competition come down to the final attempts by the final climbers, Adam Ondra and Juliane Wurm emerg...
Adam Ondra and Magdalena Röck win the 2014 Lead World Cup stop in Imst, Austria
A funny thing happened earlier this week: Adam Ondra "finally" repeated Biographie in Céüse and barely anyone seemed to notice.
The 2014 IFSC Lead World Cup continues this weekend with a stop in Briançon, France
After another disappointing finish in a Lead World Cup in Chamonix where he failed to make it out of the qualifiers due to skipping a clip on the 2nd qualifier route, Adam Ondra ma...
Jakob Schubert and Jain Kim win the opening event of the 2014 Lead World Cup
The 2014 IFSC World Cup circuit continues this weekend in Haiyang, China with Bouldering, Lead and Speed events
The highest rated videos of the past week
Amazing video .
The 4th stop on the 2014 IFSC Bouldering World Cup circuit took place this weekend in Innsbruck, Austria with Shauna Coxsey winning her 2nd consecutive gold medal and Kilian Fischh...
The highest rated videos of the past week
The 2014 Bouldering World Cup continues this weekend in Innsbruck, Austria
Another 5.14d onsight for Adam Ondra
We often joke that Adam Ondra might be a robot based on his out-of-this-world ticklist, but I'm starting to think that if any of the top climbers is a robot it might be Nalle Hukka...
Spoiler alert: Adam Ondra climbs another really hard sport route
Chris Sharma is "back" with another 5.15 in Spain
Adam Ondra has been busy doing Adam Ondra-like things of late, both in Spain and in Canada
Adam Ondra, in an interview with Squamish Climbing Magazine about his thoughts on Yosemite and the Dawn Wall: Yes, I feel ashamed that I have never been to Yosemite, and this climb...
World Cup champion Sachi Amma looks to be in top form of late, sending multiple routes 5.14d and harder in Spain.
The top climbing videos of 2013 based on your votes and views