An alpine climbing harness offers most of the same features as a trad climbing harness. ... Big wall climbing requires lots of gear, and many big-wall harnesses have more than four gear loops.

In 2013, I became the first woman to climb the hardest big-wall grade to date—Bellavista in the Italian Dolomites—a 5.14b, later downgraded to a 5.14a/b. It’s an alpine route with a huge ...

Three members of Italy's elite Lecco Spiders are on their way to repeat Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker's groundbreaking 1976 route in pure alpine style.

Climbing alpine style, the pair set off on 8 February and initially followed La Gran Raja, the first route on the wall and at present still unrepeated. After 250m the pair broke off right to follow ...

For those who fancy technical alpine climbing, this remote part of northern Italy is almost unmatched. ... Remember, the Matterhorn is a two-day big wall climbing experience at altitude.

The first day involved roughly 1,000 feet of limestone that, “if someone brushed it and cleaned it, would actually be really good,” Wharton said, “like big wall sport climbing in Europe.” ...

Lunag Ri (Alpine climbing) 3. Dawn Wall (Big Wall climbing) 4. ... "There’s no doubt this is the hardest big-wall rock climb in the world," he said. 04. Silence (Sport climbing) ...

After Wales, you went on to climb all over the world. Are there any locations that are particularly special for you? My first ever big wall was a new route on the Torre Central del Paine, which is ...

Crews were busy Friday at the Longmont Climbing Collective, erecting a temporary 40-foot-tall ice climbing wall. Large ice blocks the size of pool tables were created using refrigeration equipment ...