Nicoletta Costi reports about She Rocks! the women's climbing workshop at Melloblocco 2025 organised by Caroline Ciavaldini.

A group of men in a climbing gym make a derogatory remark as Coraline ... but it speaks volumes about the persistent biases against women in this sport. A moment of truth that resonates with ...

"My room is smaller than some people's vans," she jokes. Oakley, originally from Kensington, Maryland, began climbing in the gym at age 15 with her brother, who quickly lost interest, leaving her ...

This proves we women can climb as hard as men.” There are different climbing grade systems worldwide; in Europe, rock climbs are often graded using the French scale, which assigns numbers 1 ...

Alexis Vergalla co-founded She Rocks, a community climbing group that hosts climb nights across Seattle-area gyms for women and nonbinary people, in 2014. “The idea was to build a community ...

Climb So iLL’s annual Showdown event is a gym-climbing competition, yes—but not like the Olympics ... Then the top six men and top six women advance to the finals—“the big event under the lights,” ...

Conclusions: The study confirms that accumulating short bouts of stair climbing activity throughout the day can favourably alter important cardiovascular risk factors in previously sedentary young ...