La Sportiva Blog

Climbing Cotopaxi with ROMP and La Sportiva
Bri Daniels with Cotopaxi in the background
ROMP brings together adaptive athletes, demonstrating what is possible when people have access to mobility technology. Read more...
Routesetting & Representation with Adeline Wright
Thank your local routesetter
Do you remember the first time you rock climbed – that childlike joy you can only get from playing in jungle gyms and running through a playground? Read more...
Three Weeks at the Head
Keenan Takahashi bouldering above the North Atlantic
Go "vacation bouldering" in Fairhead, Northern Ireland with La Sportiva climbing athletes Katie Lamb and Keenan Takahashi. Read more...
Jonathan Siegrist Climbs Amazing French Limestone
Jonathan Siegrist Climbs Amazing French Limestone
My curiosity with ‘L’étrange Ivresse des Lenteurs’ really began on my very first trip to Ceuse in the spring of 2012... Read more...
Sam Stroh: El Corazon in a Day
Sam Stroh climbing El Corazon at sunset
Over the six months leading up to Yosemite season last year, I don’t think I had climbed more than 5 pitches in a day. So, rolling into the valley in... Read more...
The Joy of Suffering: Gisely Ferraz
The Joy of Suffering: Gisely Ferraz
Indian Creek season is here, and you’re dreaming about taking on some of the biggest, baddest cracks in the desert... Read more...
Sendero Luminoso, Asterisks Free: Brent Barghahn
Brent Barghahn on Sendero Luminosa
In August of 2024 I redpointed one of America’s most difficult backcountry rock routes: Sendero Luminoso, a 1500’ 5.13d route... Read more...
For Your Mountain: Bronwyn Hodgins
Bronwyn Hodgins overlooking fellow climber on ropes
When La Sportiva asked me last winter to write an article about a goal I was pursuing... Read more...
Gisely Ferraz - Stuff You Should Know about Climbing in the Creek
Gisely Ferraz Crack Climbing
Here are 10 things you should know about climbing in the Creek. Read more...
29 Years in the Creek - Heidi Wirtz
Heidi Wirtz smiling group photo
Heidi reflects on the last 3 decades of time in Utah's Indian Creek and what the future holds for both her and it... Read more...
Fitz Roy Patagonia - Gisely Ferraz
On top of Fitz Roy
The mountains around us played a symphony of rockfall and avalanches, all part of the experience of being in the mountains... Read more...
The Curecanti Needle - Angela Lee
Angela and friends posing the Black Canyon
The Curecanti Needle, named after the Ute Chief Curicata, sits in the upper Black Canyon, or “Much Rocks, Big Water” in Ute Creek. Read more...