Alex Honnold is fascinating and polarizing. He climbed the 1,000-meter face of the El Capitan in Yosemite National Park without any ropes or safeguarding. And yet, in his view, it was a safe undertaking.
Adam Ondra and Chris Sharma are undoubtedly at the top of the world climbing scene. But at the latest since the Olympic premiere of climbing, Alberto Gines Lopez and Janja Garnbret are also stars of the scene. We present ten top athletes.
Sebastian Steudtner is an exotic: He’s the only German surfer who does big wave surfing professionally. In an interview he explains how dangerous the masses of water are.
40 years ago - on 20 August 1980 - Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Mount Everest solo and without additional oxygen. ISPO.com shows the best mountaineers of the world on the occasion of the anniversary.
About 60 kilometers south of Paris is one of the largest bouldering facilities in the world. It is not without reason that Fontainebleau is considered the cradle of bouldering: on around 25,000 hectares of forest, you will find around twenty thousand individual bouldering routes for climbing, even in winter.
Tough Mudder, Spartan Race & co: Anyone can run, crawl through mud, and scale obstacles. We have collated the key facts for each of these popular events.
Under the provocative campaign title "Not bad for a Girl" the German extreme sportswoman Anja Blacha succeeds in doing what many people obviously did not think she could do: After 57 days, 18 hours, 50 minutes and 1,400 kilometers on skis she reached the South Pole on 9 January.
