Simon Carter's Rock Climbing Photos

Excited to announce our new Red River Gorge guidebook with a shout-out to @brendanleader for his incredible attention to detail and all his hard work authoring this arse-kicking 360 page...

New pics. Jacques Beaudoin has just sent his mega trad route Mother Earth (31) — this time placing all gear on lead during the actual ascent!⁠ ⁠ I posted some...

I’m honoured that one of my images has been selected as the Signature Image for the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival this year. It is the second time one...

Louie Allen attempting God’s Own Stone (5.14a), Gold Coast, Red River Gorge, Kentucky, the other day.⁠ ⁠ So awesome to get overseas for the first time in several years! I’ve...

I’m very sorry to hear of the passing of Bryden Allen yesterday, truly one of the great legends of Australian climbing.⁠ ⁠ I took this image of him in 1998,...

Maria Alejandra Garcia Villegas, Manic (18), Narrabeen Slabs, Sydney.⁠

Ben Miura maxed out on Prowess (23) at Bow Wall, Vaucluse, one of the shots I took for the Sydney Climbing guidebook. The new guidebook has dropped! In case you...

Boom! At last, I’m delighted to announce that the SYDNEY CLIMBING guidebook is available now.⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ The book is 212 pages and covers 1145 routes at 24 of the best...

I took this image in 1991, several years before I started shooting professionally, and, if I remember correctly, it was my first cover of Rock Magazine. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Climbers are...

Tough as nails… Lisa Hathaway finds a Fine Mexican Boyfriend (5.11d) above a snow-covered Mill Creek, near Moab, Utah, belayed by Monique Forestier in, as you might imagine, freezing conditions....