Michaela Kiersch

At 5.14d, her new route, ‘Mad Lib,’ is the hardest grade established by a woman in North America since Beth Rodden’s ‘Meltdown.’

At the North American Cup finals yesterday, the local Olympian won in Women’s Lead. Find out how Michaela Kiersch, Kai Lightner, and Nathaniel Coleman stacked up—and who took men’s gold.

Pro climber snacks, ranked, from Honnold’s notorious bell pepper and Amity Warme’s dried fruit, to Michaela Kiersch’s ale of choice

5 things the 5.15/V15 climber swears by

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'Dreamtime' was the world first proposed V15 boulder. In climbing it, Kiersch becomes the ninth woman to climb the grade.

Plus: Sean Bailey does Lucid Dreaming // Tomoa Narasaki flashes V16 (and downgrades to V14) // and Michaela Kiersch reveals an unlikely key to a recent success

THE WEEKLY ROUNDUP: ‘Tis the season for hard sport climbing! Nicholas Milburn also made quick work of ‘Flex Luthor.’

In doing so, she became only the second American woman to tick the grade.

Michaela Kiersch discusses the importance of running, weight lifting, and injury prevention exercises to her training regimen.

Kiersch just had the best bouldering trip of her life in Magic Wood, Switzerland. In total, she put down 16 double digit boulders, two of which were V14. 

Kiersch topped her longest ever bouldering project and Puccio follows.

Finding balance between climbing and "life" is difficult. Pro climber Michaela Kiersch learned how to do it early in her career.

Kiersch described the route as “one of the most beautiful, historical, and challenging routes in North America.”

When it was first climbed by Boone Speed in 1994, roughly four months before Kiersch was born, Super Tweak was the hardest route in America established by an American.

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Kiersch and Claassen climb a venerable American testpiece

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