OPENING NEW LINES

Oak Flat’s transfer could erase a sacred Apache site and iconic climbing area.

A new study shows how climbers help shape Squamish’s economy—and its growing pains.

What World Climbing’s finances reveal about a circuit still carried by its tour.

Climbing’s old-school and modern styles clash less than they complete each other.

Care for cliffs, access, and ecology now shape modern climbing culture.

Both turn skill and freedom into status, style, and quiet rules about belonging.

Growth is cooling, even as participation stays near record highs.

How a local walkout exposed a deeper crisis inside France’s biggest gym chain.

When pace turns into power, a day out can become something far more dangerous.

What keeps climbers coming back isn’t just pleasure—it’s the power of almost.

In Paris, the French Spider-Man fights to control what the world remembers.

Before the towers, he risked everything on France’s hardest rock routes.

A grief-haunted journey through Switzerland, with the Alps always out of reach.

A worker-owned gym network bets on shared power, capped pay gaps, and local roots.

A national program faces scrutiny as an internal probe begins.