Robert Pettigrew, former UIAA Access Commission president is now Member of the Order of the British Empire (Photo: BMC for UIAA) Former UIAA Access Commission president Robert Pettigrew has been awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for outstanding service to the community and...
Yannick Glatthard of Switzerland is only 17-years-old but climbing like he's aged 30 (Photo: Photo by Philippe Mooser for UIAA) Veterans Maxim Tomilov (Russia) and Angelika Rainer (Italy) put on show of power and skill, while wowing the crowd, to win the Men and Women’s Lead competition...
UIAA and Korean Alpine Federation officials met with the Korean Olympic Committee to discuss ice climbing (Photo: KAF for UIAA) UIAA President Frits Vrijlandt, Executive Board Member Thomas Kähr and UIAA Ice Climbing Commission President Urs Stoecker met with Korean Olympic Committee president Jung-tae Kim to...
Russia is a country that produces Speed climbing champions by the dozens but Nikolai Kuzovlev is proving that he’s the best of them. First he beat fellow Russians Egor Trapeznikov, 2013’s overall UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour Speed champion in the Bozeman Speed final, then Maxim...
Every sport which wants to enter the Olympics, needs athletes, spectators, excitement, and where possible, a global reach. But what it also needs most is a person who believes in the sport’s potential and is willing to back it financially. Kihak Sung of Goldwin Korea, the official...
Ice climbing camp to be held for youth near Erzurum, Turkey one of three GYS winter events (Photo: Nejat Akinci for UIAA) Indoor and outdoor ice climbing is all the rage these days especially among young people. Check out three UIAA Global Youth Summit winter events, which take...
William Lowell Putnam was an Honorary Member of the UIAA William Lowell Putnam, a dear friend and Honorary Member of the UIAA – International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation died Saturday after a week-long coma following a fall. The news was sent to the UIAA from his son...
Marietta Uhden on Zillertal (Photo: http://www.marietta-uhden.com) Marietta Uhden the first female German athlete to win a UIAA World Cup in Bouldering was a champion climber and athlete whose love of climbing and passion for the sport was legendary. Born in 1968, the former professional climber passed away on...
Nikolai Kuzovlov surveys the Bozeman crowd on the way down (Photo: Max Lowe for UIAA) Bozeman is a mountain town that loves ice climbing and residents showed what that means when they came out in droves to witness the first UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour competition...
Kendra Stritch made history by becoming the first American to win a stage of the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour (Photo: UIAA) Unseasonably warm weather meant there was no ice on the Speed wall at the UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour stop in Bozeman. But that didn’t stop...