Climbing Articles: Advice, Events, Argentina or Austria

Thu, Oct 22, 2026Events Argentina

CAMP’s 25th bouldering festival: 7–8 November 2026

CAMP’s outdoor festival returns to Sierra de los Difuntos with a Sunday competition, optional Saturday climbing and camping, and a trek for non-climbers.

Joe Rushton

Sat, Oct 17, 2026Advice Austria

Outdoor climbing in Austria: crags, boulders and via ferratas

Where to climb on real rock in Austria, from bouldering in the Zillertal and the Maltatal to sport crags in the Wilder Kaiser, the Ötztal and the hills around Vienna, plus how via ferratas are graded and when to go.

Joe Rushton

Sat, Oct 17, 2026Events Austria

Austria's 2026 climbing championships and the season ahead

Who won the 2026 Austrian bouldering, speed and lead titles, the highlights of Austria's international season, and the competitions still to come in the country's halls, from the autumn state championships to the World Climbing Series in Innsbruck in June 2027.

Joe Rushton

Sat, Oct 17, 2026Advice Austria

Do you need a Kletterschein to climb in Austria?

Austria's Alpine Club issues Kletterschein belay cards, but almost none of the halls we list asks to see one. Here's what they ask of roped climbers instead, from signed declarations and staff checks to membership rules and children's consent forms.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Advice Australia New South Wales

Climbing in the Blue Mountains: a guide for gym climbers

The Blue Mountains hold about 7,300 routes, many of them bolted sport climbs on sandstone around Blackheath, Mount Victoria and Katoomba. Here's where to start, when to go, the access rules, guidebooks and courses, and the gyms on the way.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Events Competitions Australia Victoria

Speed climbing in Melbourne: national and state titles in November

Urban Climb Blackburn hosts the 2026 Australian Speed Climbing National Championships on 7 November, and Gravity Worx the Victorian State Speed Titles on 21 November. Here's what speed climbing is, who races, and how to enter or watch.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Advice Australia

How climbing gyms work in Australia: a first-timer's guide

What a casual entry gets you, what shoe and harness hire cost, why you sign a waiver and do an induction, how belay and lead checks work, what weekly direct-debit memberships involve, and the age, chalk and etiquette rules at Australian climbing gyms in 2026.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Advice Australia Victoria

A guide to Melbourne's free public bouldering walls

Melbourne's free outdoor bouldering walls, from Burnley's volunteer-built walls under the Monash Freeway to council walls in Brunswick, Footscray, Southbank, Chadstone, Point Cook and Cranbourne South, and a campus wall in Frankston: where each one is, what it's like and how to use it well.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Events Australia

Perth hosts the first National Boulder Cup: results and what's next

Portside Boulders in Osborne Park hosted the first National Boulder Cup on 25–27 September 2026, with the WA Open Boulder Titles run inside it. Olivia Hawryluk and Maxim Pare won the open finals, and WA's lead titles follow at Oasis Climbing on 7–8 November.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Advice Australia

Climbing at Kangaroo Point Cliffs: Brisbane's floodlit city crag

Kangaroo Point Cliffs is a free, floodlit crag on the Brisbane River, a short walk from the CBD. Here's what the climbing is like, how the old quarry came to be, the council's rules on anchors and groups, and how to move safely from the gym to the rock.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Events News Australia Australian Capital Territory

Booroomba Rocks marks 60 years of climbing with a November meet

The Canberra Climbers' Association is marking 60 years since the first recorded climb at Booroomba Rocks with a members' trad meet on 21 and 22 November 2026, two months after the crag's access road reopened following a closure that began in May.

Joe Rushton

Fri, Oct 23, 2026Events Competitions Australia Queensland

Ipswich hosts the 2026 Queensland Youth Boulder Titles

Sport Climbing Queensland's youth bouldering championships come to GRIPswich Bouldering in Ipswich on 31 October and 1 November 2026, with state titles and qualification for the Australian Youth Boulder Nationals at stake.

Joe Rushton