Travel

'Zone Local' has the beta on the best hidden boulders of Fort Tryon, proving that Manhattan's climbing history goes beyond Central Park.

Boulder, eat, wander, repeat: The French Olympian shares her routine for living between the Magic Forest and the capital city. 

Since January 20, the Trump administration has tightened travel restrictions for visitors while increasing penalties for breaking the rules.

This year's best climbing destinations, from Ecuador to Turkey

Celebrate climbing and our community at these 13 events, starting in May 2025 and running through November.

These destinations check all of the important boxes, offering short approaches, a high density of routes at various grades, a flat staging area, zero to minimal rockfall, and overall safe climbing terrain.

Not every hard project has to be tackled from a tent or campervan

Deep in the Desert Southwest, a 28-mile road winds up through five ecosystems and provides access to more than 2,500 routes, year-round, on steep, featured granite.

If you find yourself alone at a crowded crag, don’t fret. Remember that you're part of a community of people that all share a common interest.

So where are all the climbers?

Exploring the small island's tufa-laden limestone sport routes, some requiring hair-raising rappels to precarious stances above the sea.

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Deep in the Cascades, you can top out huge walls without placing gear or pulling 5.10 moves on routes like Flyboys, which climbs 1,800 fully bolted feet at an achievable 5.9. (From 2020.)

Uncovering approachable routes for the everyday climber in South Patagonia.

Your Virgin Island itinerary is simple: send, rinse, repeat.

In the Elbe River Valley they were climbing 5.9+ by 1905 and 5.10+/5.11 by 1922. And they were doing this with knotted slings as pro.

It's easy to fantasize about climbing road trip, but hard work to make it happen. Here are some tips to make the prep a little easier.

Thou shalt read this and do as I sayeth.

“She’s my favorite international climbing partner,” says Kate Rutherford. "She can make ramen and tuna taste gourmet."

Against a background of 10,000-foot peaks, icebergs, and the vast Atlantic Ocean, local Inuit kids in East Greenland are growing up stuck somewhere between traditional ways of life and the quickly encroaching modern world. Communities struggle with record suicide, alcoholism, and abuse rates. Four Icelanders and an American asked the question: Can rock climbing help?

It's too beautiful. It's not crowded enough. You're better off at your local gym.

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The Cuban government still does not recognize climbing as an official sport, so climbers must operate under the radar.

In Kenya’s far north, the semi-nomadic Samburu tribesmen are exploring their ancestral landscape in a radical new direction—vertically.

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The steep, wild, multipitch conglomerate of Los Mallos de Riglos in the hills of Northern Spain

Nepal will resume domestic and international air traffic, and begin granting climbing permits for the autumn season.

Life, love, and vertigo in Paklenica—a traveler’s journal

Bali, Indonesia, is known for its vibrant culture, yoga retreats, epic surf breaks, and lush jungle. However, there’s also a thriving climbing scene in this most unlikely of venues, proving that climbers will find community the world over.

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First ascents meet anti-hydropower activism in Albania—Europe’s wildest unknown limestone paradise.

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A quixotic tale of hornswoggling and hubris on Spain’s limestone paradise of la Costa Blanca.

How The Climbing Academy—a traveling high school centered on rock climbing— is building the next generation of redpoint and academic crushers

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Climbing travel with social awareness

The thousand faces of Central Europe's karstic gem

Not long ago, Hatun Machay was considered the premier sport climbing destination in South America with more than 300 routes. These days, it lies abandoned.

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Our top climbing gear picks for 2018

Our top climbing gear picks for 2018

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After the indigenous people of Indonesia’s West Timor prevented miners from destroying their sacred mountains, they sought sustainable forms of revenue. A team of kayakers and climbers traveled here with one question: Could climbing and adventure tourism be it?

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Top-shelf bouldering in the middle of somewhere.

Pro climber and frequent flier Heidi Wirtz shares five tips for long airplane rides.

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Panther Gorge is a hidden gem surrounded by New York's highest peaks.

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Pro climber and yoga instructor Heidi Wirtz does it all.

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How the nonprofit climbing organization Escalando Fronteras has shown kids from the barrio in Monterrey, Mexico, a different way to live.

Planes, trains, and broken luggage: one year with Colette McInerney

Where the waves meet the rock

A midwinter escape to cool crags near Mexico City

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Ben Rueck and Mayan Smith-Gobat push their limits on the ephemeral and frigid sea stacks of Tasmanian

Magma formed Oregon’s climbing before it was cool

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An outsider decodes the intricacies of Japanese climbing culture

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A growing climbing community with relentless psych strives for legitimacy

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