Climbing news, events, guides and advice, from new walls and competitions to how to start climbing.
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
The Rock Adventure Centre in Newtown, Geelong's indoor climbing centre since 2001, closes for good on Saturday 7 November 2026. Here's what is ending and where the city's climbers can go next, from Industry Boulders in Grovedale to the granite of the You Yangs.
Joe Rushton
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
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
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
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
Tasmania's open bouldering titles are at Rock It Derwent Park in Hobart on Saturday 5 December 2026, with Open A, Open B for first-timers and Masters. Early-bird entry is $75 until 10 November, and round 2 of the youth series follows on the Sunday.
Joe Rushton
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
Verified dates for climbing socials, workshops, national championships, films and bouldering competitions in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.
Joe Rushton
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
Sunniva E. Haave and Leo Chiba won the bouldering titles in Fredrikstad in February, and Ingrid Kindlihagen and Leo K. Bøe took lead gold in Oslo in September, where para-climbers competed for titles in seven classes.
Joe Rushton
The Ontario Climbing Federation's season runs from speed in Kingston in November to the youth provincials at Steel Peak, The Core, Gravity Hamilton and Hub Mississauga in spring 2027. Here are the dates and venues.
Joe Rushton