Mike Ives here — a freelance writer based in Hanoi, Vietnam. For the next few days, I'll be filing dispatches from the second-annual Yangshuo Climbing Festival in Yangshuo, China. If my aching fingers ...

With Moon Hill, The White Mountain and 30 other crags, Yangshuo is one of the most important and interesting areas for rock climbing in China. Yangshuo is a little-known corner of China, at present ...

Bristling with lofty and precipitous peaks, Yangshuo county in China’s Guangxi province is frequented by rock-climbing enthusiasts from around the world. Following the International Olympic ...

NANNING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- When American rock climbing enthusiast Andrew Hedesh hit rock bottom in his job in 2008, he came to Yangshuo, a popular tourist destination in south China, to clear his ...

Click the photo and watch the video. Yangshuo of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is the most popular rock climbing destination in China, famous for its dramatic karst mountain landscape ...

Moon Hill is regarded as the birthplace of climbing in Yangshuo. Liu Jiaoqing / for China Daily A dispute in the self-proclaimed birthplace of Chinese rock climbing has resulted in devotees being ...

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When American rock climbing enthusiast Andrew Hedesh hit rock bottom in his job in 2008, he came to Yangshuo to clear his mind and never left. “I came to China and I typed into the internet ‘rock ...

There are more than 1,000 routes in Yangshuo, accounting for one third of the routes in China, attracting some 300 rock climbing lovers from all over the world to stay in Yangshuo all year round.

Five-time Bouldering World Cup winner Kilian Fischhuber might have retired from climbing competitions two years ago, but he’s still very active in the sport. The Austrian rock specialist now spends ...

Yangshuo Climbing Festival Day 3: Steady Drizzle. The morning's scheduled outdoor climbing workshopswere moved to the Yangshuo Kungfu Training Centre. I biked over around 9:30 a.m. to watch Alex ...

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