German Olympic sports climber Alexander Megos has revealed that he suffered from anorexia in his younger years. Megos, 32, told Monday's Welt paper that he gradually slid into the illness as a child ...

Megos: The first part is 5.14d in my eyes, [yet] depending on who you ask, people might also say 5.15a--but I think this route suits my style very well. It's quite a powerful 5.14d, I would say, power ...

"Climbing has a million stories, I'm going to tell you one from Alex. And this is a good one." These words are uttered by someone who knows a thing or two about climbing, namely Jerry Moffatt. The ...

German climber Alex Megos is perhaps best known for putting down one of the hardest routes in the world, Bibliographie (initially thought to be 5.15d, a grade climbed only once before, but eventually ...

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Last month, Mat Wright established Black Thistle, a runout and technical E10 7A (5.14- R/X) at Glen Nevis, in the U.K. It was his second FA of the grade this year, after climbing Magical Thinking at ...

Alex Megoshas a climbing skill set unlike any other climber. Regardless of the climb's degree of difficulty, he appears to scale vertical rock faces with such ease it's mystifying. So when the German ...