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← Zur aktuellen AusgabeGarnbret's historic ascent, Emil's comeback, gear breaks under load
Janja's Historic Send
Janja Garnbret just climbed something no one else has.
She sent Bibliographie, a route that sits at the absolute frontier of sport climbing difficulty [Quelle: The Struggle]. Filmmaker Jon Glassberg was there to document what it takes to capture climbing's rarest moments—not just the send itself, but the process, the fails, the mental architecture that makes it possible. That footage matters because ascents at this level are still so rare that every one teaches something about what the human body and mind can do together.
The climbing world watches moments like this to understand its own horizon.
Emil's Return to Hard Climbing
Emil Abrahamsson sent his hardest route after being told to quit.
The Swedish climber appeared on The Struggle to discuss the training breakthroughs that got him back to elite sends following a scare that nearly ended his climbing career [Quelle: The Struggle]. His story sits at the intersection of physiology and psychology—figuring out not just how to train harder, but how to come back from the moment you believe it's over. That kind of comeback carries weight because the path isn't obvious.
His training protocols are already being studied by coaches hunting for the same magic.
Breaking Through the Wall
Elite climbers are cracking the code on training volume.
Nate Drolet and others featured on The Struggle are working through the mechanics of structured training plans and maximum tolerable training doses—the threshold where more reps stop building and start breaking [Quelle: The Struggle]. The pattern emerging across these conversations is deliberate: plateaus aren't walls, they're signals. When progress stalls, the answer isn't always harder—it's smarter placement of hard. Knowing where that line sits separates climbers who push through and climbers who recover.
The athletes who master this calibration will be the ones setting the next generation of records.
The Struggle Climbing Show23 hours ago ... The best climbers in the world share their struggles and breakthroughs in Training, Nutrition, Tactics, and Mental Game. Hosted by Ryan Devlin.thestruggleclimbingshow.com