Climbing

Europe's grand limestone canyon: abseil in from the rim and climb your way back out.

The sandstone forest south of Paris where bouldering was invented — the spiritual home of the sport.

The place sport climbing goes on holiday — the most concentrated bolted crag network in Europe.

Vestpillaren on Presten and the airy Svolværgeita horn jump — Arctic granite you can climb at midnight.

Some of the most technical and committed granite towers on earth.

Hundreds of short bolted routes within a day trip of Kraków.

Europe's ice-climbing capital — hundreds of frozen waterfalls concentrated in one deep valley.

Poland's granite trad crag — Sokoliki, where you place your own gear and the slabs punish bad footwork.

Multi-pitch granite routes with proper alpine exposure.

The cliff-top crag that shaped modern Spanish sport climbing.

Winter-sun limestone in a Málaga gorge, endless mid-grade routes.

Pebble-studded rock towers above a monastery, an hour from Barcelona.

Winter-sun endurance climbing above a Valencian gorge.

Long, exposed multi-pitch on the giant conglomerate Mallos.

Runout granite friction on the domes above Madrid.

The overhanging wall that produced La Dura Dura, one of climbing's hardest routes.

The Naranjo de Bulnes — Spain's most famous rock tower, deep in the Picos.

A giant tufa cave near Lleida, home to some of the hardest routes ever climbed.

Pocket-pulling on red conglomerate, half an hour from Siurana.

A 300-metre limestone rock climbed straight out of the Mediterranean at Calpe.

Long vertical limestone above a reservoir in a Pyrenean gorge, a winter-sun sport-climbing staple.

Conglomerate towers and walls above the Priorat vineyards, a quiet neighbour to Siurana.

The Costa Blanca's signature sport crag, steep and long limestone in a sunny inland valley.

Vertical and overhanging limestone above a turquoise river gorge in inland Castellón.