In the early days of rock climbing, athletes had a simple choice: Slip on a pair of rubber-soled high-tops or don a pair of heavy hiking boots. Suffice to say, footwear was limited and unsuited to ...

A list of open speech corpora for Speech Technology research and development. This list has a preference for free (i.e. no $ cost) and truly open corpora (e.g. released under a Creative Commons ...

Plants that climb, creep and twist. There’s an incredible range of foliage forms and colours, stunning flowering displays, gorgeous fragrances and in several species, almost luminous shows of colour ...

Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World heritage site, a world-famous landmark and an icon of Japan. But it has also become a “trash mountain” overcrowded by millions of tourists. To try and bring more ...

The British Mountaineering Council (BMC) can today announce the climbers who have been named as part of the GB Climbing Team for the 2025 season. Following standout Boulder and Lead British ...

Interview with Matteo De Zaiacomo on preparing for the iconic Melloblocco bouldering festival with Andrea Pavan and the entire route-setting team. The meeting is scheduled to take place in Val di ...