Section · Endurance
Mountain Climbing
Everything the paper holds for Mountain Climbing: game reports built from the signed-off box score, the schools that field the sport, the athletes who have chosen to be public, and the season calendar.
From the Scorebook
Mountain Climbing Game Reports
No Mountain Climbing reports published yet
A report lands in this section as soon as both teams' books agree, the box score is signed off, and the recap is published from the game page.
The Season
Season Calendar
Season Calendar · 2026
Mountain Climbing · UIAA - International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (mountaineering and ice climbing); World Climbing, formerly the IFSC, for competition rock climbing
| Phase | Starts | Ends | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| High-altitude mountaineering weather windows | — | — | Governed by weather windows, not a league season. On Everest the main season is the spring pre-monsoon window of April and May, with most 2026 summits falling between 17 and 26 May, plus a smaller autumn window from September to November; July is monsoon and the mountain is off-season. |
| UIAA Ice Climbing World Tour 2025-26 | Jan 9, 2026 | Mar 7, 2026 | Cheongsong, South Korea 9-11 January (World Cup 1); Saas-Fee 22-24 January (World Cup 2 and European Championships); World Youth Championships Malbun 29 January to 1 February; Continental Cup Sunderland 7-8 February; Longmont, Colorado 20-22 February (World Cup 3 and North American Championships); Edmonton 26-28 February (season decider); final Continental Cup Oulu 7 March 2026. |
| World Climbing Series 2026 (sport climbing, 13 stops) | May 1, 2026 | Oct 25, 2026 | Opens Keqiao, China 1-3 May (boulder) and closes with the season finale in Santiago, Chile 23-25 October, the first ever series event in Chile. Stops include Wujiang, Bern, Alcobendas, Prague, Innsbruck, Krakow, Chamonix, Koper, Guiyang, Chongqing and Salt Lake City. |
| World Climbing Youth World Championship | Jul 18, 2026 | Jul 25, 2026 | Arco, Italy. |
| UIAA Ice Climbing 2026-27 provisional season | Nov 28, 2026 | Feb 27, 2027 | Provisional. Continental Cups Zilina 28 November, Brno 5 December, Utrecht 12 December 2026; World Cups Cheongsong 15-17 January, Saas-Fee 21-23 January (to be confirmed by 1 September), Calgary 19-21 February and Edmonton 25-27 February 2027; World Youth Championships Edmonton 25-28 February 2027. |
| Mountaineering competition calendar | — | — | Alpinism and high-altitude mountaineering is not a competitive, federated sport and has no competition calendar. Achievement is recognised by awards rather than results tables, and expeditions are regulated by national permit authorities. |
| UIAA Ice Climbing World Championships (biennial pinnacle ice-climbing event) | Jan 29, 2027 | Jan 31, 2027 | Champagny-en-Vanoise, France |
UIAA calendar · checked Jul 31, 2026
Not Yet Confirmed
7 parts of the Mountain Climbing year are still unsourced
These are gaps, not blanks. Each names what is missing and who would confirm it. Nothing is estimated to fill the shape of the table above.
- Season window
- Primary-source citation for Nepal's 2025-26 Everest royalty schedule — Nepal's Department of Tourism would confirm. UIAA calendar
- Season window
- Aconcagua and Patagonia climbing-season months from an official source — the Aconcagua Provincial Park authority (Mendoza) would confirm.
- Elite calendar
- The 2026 and 2027 Piolets d'Or ceremony dates and organiser contacts — the Groupe de Haute Montagne / Piolets d'Or organisers (no official Piolets d'Or page was reachable in this session) would confirm.
- Olympic and major games
- Whether ice climbing is on the 2030 French Alps Winter Olympic programme, a long-standing UIAA ambition — the UIAA would confirm. LA28 Games Plan
- High school season
- USA Climbing's youth season structure and divisional, regional and national dates — USA Climbing would confirm. USA Ice Climbing competition schedule
- College season
- The organiser and dates of the U.S. collegiate climbing series, commonly attributed to USA Climbing's collegiate division — USA Climbing would confirm. NCAA Future Dates Summary · NCAA Emerging Sports for Women
- Results and news sources
- The most authoritative Himalayan expedition-record source (the Himalayan Database is the usual answer) — the Himalayan Database editors would confirm. UIAA Ice Climbing live results
Around The Season
- High school
- Not an NFHS sport; neither climbing nor mountaineering appears on the NFHS list of sanctioned activities and sports. U.S. school-age competition runs through gym-based youth series and USA Climbing, and through USA Ice Climbing's youth categories. NFHS Activities & Sports
- College
- Not an NCAA sport; absent from the NCAA championship future-dates schedule and from the emerging-sports-for-women list. NCAA Future Dates Summary
- Olympic and major games
- Sport Climbing is on the LA28 Olympic programme and Para Climbing on the LA28 Paralympic programme. Climbing also appears at the Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 and the Asian Beach Games Sanya 2026. Ice climbing and mountaineering are not on the LA28 programme. LA28 Games Plan
- Club, youth and academy
- Competition climbing's youth pathway is dense and international: Europe Youth Series stops at Soure (18-19 April), Graz (9-10 May), Zakopane (13 June), Dornbirn (4-5 July), St. Polten (1 August), Imst (4-6 September) and Leipzig (3 October) 2026, Europe Youth Championship Sukoro (11-14 June), Asia Youth Series Quannan (13-16 August) and Al-Bahah (15-17 October), Asia Youth Championship Guiyang (21-25 August), and the World Climbing Youth Championship in Arco 18-25 July 2026. Ice climbing runs youth World Championships in late January and February and formal training camps at Champagny-en-Vanoise 27-28 August 2026 and Brno 20-25 October 2026 before the winter season. For mountaineering there is no tryout model; skills progression runs through alpine clubs.
- Busiest months
- January, February, April, May, June, July, October
Results data · Split. Competition climbing and ice climbing publish results in structured form and freely reachable - the UIAA runs a public live-results service and World Climbing publishes a full event calendar with schedules and info sheets. Mountaineering is not published centrally: ascents are recorded by expedition operators, national permit authorities and third-party trackers rather than any federation results feed, and no central UIAA ascent registry is offered.
Programs
Schools Fielding Mountain Climbing
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- Georgia TechSoutheastern Con. Hockey
- Penn State UniversityACCHL Premier
- Arizona State UniversityAZ · WCHL
- University of ArizonaAZ · WCHL
- Stanford UniversityCA · Pacific West
- UC San DiegoCA · Pacific West
- University of California BerkeleyCA · Pacific West
- University of California IrvineCA · Pacific West
- University of California Los AngelesCA · Pacific West
- University of Southern CaliforniaCA · PAC
- Colorado CollegeCO · Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
- Colorado State UniversityCO · Mountain West Conference
- Front Range Community CollegeCO · Rocky Mountain
- University of Colorado BoulderCO · Big 12 Conference
- University of Central FloridaFL · Big 12
- University of FloridaFL · SEC
- Iowa State UniversityIA · Big 12
- Boise State UniversityID · Mountain West
- University of IllinoisIL · Independent
- Indiana UniversityIN · Big Ten
- Ivy Tech Community CollegeIN · Great Lakes
- Purdue UniversityIN · Big Ten
- University of KentuckyKY · SEC
- Tufts UniversityMA · New England Small College Athletic Conference
Athletes
Public Mountain Climbing Pages
Athlete records are private by default. Only athletes who have claimed their record and chosen to make it public appear here.
No public athlete pages in this section yet
An athlete appears here only after they have claimed their record and set it public. Nothing is listed on their behalf.
Bylines
Reporting on Mountain Climbing
No filed stories on Mountain Climbing yet
Stories from named reporters covering this sport appear here, each carrying that reporter's page and their podcast, channel and social links.