Climbing

5/27/2025 |  Zepp Health Corp. Sees DD Boost from Amazfit Brand in First Quarter (SGB UPDATE) Zepp Health Corporation reported revenues for the first quarter of 2025 reached $38.5 million, a decrease of 3.6 percent from the first quarter of 2024. The decrease was primarily due to the $5.0 million decrease in the sales of Xiaomi wearable products.

5/6/2025 |  EXEC: Royal Robbins Posts Q1 Increase in U.S. Market for Parent Fenix Outdoor (SGB UPDATE) Fenix Outdoor Int’l AG Chairman Fenix Martin Nordin described the 2025 fiscal first quarter as another challenging period with “warm and volatile weather” in Europe, and a macroeconomic and political situation did not support this first quarter of 2025. Nordin’s comments came in a letter to investors accompanying the company’s first quarter financial report.

12/18/2024 |  Denver to Host 2025 IFSC Speed Climbing World Cup (SportsTravel) Denver will host a Speed Climbing World Cup as part of an American doubleheader of events with Salt Lake City, announced the International Federation for Sport Climbing.
The Denver speed climbing event will be May 31–June 1, the first time the region has hosted an IFSC World Cup event. It comes after Salt Lake hosts a boulder event from May 23–25.
“We could not be more thrilled to partner with the IFSC to host a Climbing World Cup,” said Kourtny Garrett, president and chief executive officer of the Downtown Denver Partnership. “As an epicenter for outdoor recreation and the economic hub for the Rocky Mountain West, the opportunity to host an event like this is synonymous with our ethos. All of us in Denver are incredibly proud to welcome the IFSC, its athletes and a global audience to our city this summer.”

12/5/2024 |  Landlord Sues Crux Climbing for Climbing Wall Ownership (Athletic Business) A climbing gym in Austin, Texas, Crux Climbing, should be soaring to new heights after recently opening a brand new facility and expanding its business. Instead, it’s down in the weeds of lawsuits and legal filings.
One of Crux Climbing’s locations at 121 Pickle Road Austin, Texas, is a rented space. Back in 2023, Crux informed the building’s landlord that it would not be continuing to rent the space past 2024. The legal trouble came when the landlord, 3432 Pickle LLC, claimed that the climbing walls inside the gym belonged to the building and not Crux.

10/17/2024 |  Youngest female climber to scale 14 tallest peaks calls for novices to be regulated (Associated Press (AP)) KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A British mountaineer who set the record as the youngest female to climb all the 14 tallest mountains in the world said Thursday that inexperienced climbers should not be allowed to climb the highest peaks because they run the risk of endangering their lives and others.