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r/climbing

r/climbing is a safe-for-work community on Reddit, ranked #650 on SubMouse with 1,641,194 subscribers and about 2.5 new posts a day.

Rank (SFW)#650
Subscribers1.6M
Growth since Nov 2+400
Posts per day2.5
Posts all time132.1K
CreatedJul 2008
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About r/climbing

In its own words:

The home of Climbing on reddit. And yes we are scared of falling.

Community guide

r/climbing (#649, about 1.6 million subscribers) — The home of Climbing on reddit. And yes we are scared of falling. A recent sample averaged 2.8 posts a day (~47% video, ~20% link, ~13% image). Its public rules include: No questions outside of the weekly question thread; Circlejerking; Not climbing related; low effort/low quality; No indoor climbing or bouldering except covering competitions. It is listed under “Sports”.

What belongs here

Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Low-effort memes/empty shitposts are often removed—add real context.

How it differs from lookalikes

Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rule list—not merely a larger sibling community.

Practical pointers

Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change.

The community was created on Jul 17, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 400 subscribers (+0.02%). Among the 7 communities on our climbing list it is the largest. It sits just behind r/Warhammer40k (#649) and ahead of r/indiameme (#651) in our ranking.

What sets r/climbing apart

Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.5 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.

Subscriber growth

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Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/climbing went up from 1,638,244 to 1,641,194 subscribers (+3K, +0.18%). That is about 58 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.

Top posts on r/climbing this week

The most upvoted posts of the past seven days, in the order Reddit ranks them (collected Nov 9, 2026).

  1. I made climbing sculpture with a real piece of rocku/CalmDynoArt · Nov 4 · video
  2. Shauna Coxsey climbing Hat Trick, 7C, Göschenenu/redbullgivesyouwings · Nov 3 · video
  3. Aiden Roberts has climbed Distillery, his long term project at Bridalveil Falls (V17 or harder)u/monsieurcanard · Nov 5 · link
  4. Matt Mendes repeats Realm of Tor’ment V17/9Au/TTwelveUnits · Nov 3 · link
  5. Duality of Man — America's Hardest Sport Climb, 5.15d/9c — Sean Bailey (full video)u/Shannamalfarm · Nov 5 · video
  6. Ryuichi Murai sends Alphane 9Au/static_motion · Nov 6 · link
  7. Big Wall Sport Climbing in Indonesian Borneou/p666rty_goat · Nov 4 · gallery
  8. Dave MacLeod Repeats Franco Cookson’s E12 'But Nothing Is Lost', proposes E10u/tatxc · Nov 4 · video
  9. Did Inti Watana into Res Arete the other dayu/doublemm7 · Nov 7 · gallery
  10. NEW Black Velvet rain gauge now available for precip when visiting Red Rock!u/ICanCountTo0b1010 · Nov 7 · image

All-time top posts

The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/climbing, from 2016 to 2022, ranked by Reddit.

  1. Climbers for Net-neutrality: The net is an important, free and open resource for all climbers and mountaineers alike. Lets keep it that way!u/Rhumidian · Nov 22, 2017 · 47,623 points · 112 comments · link
  2. I'm moving to Los Angeles in February and don't know anyone. This is how I'm going to make new friends.u/King_Pearson · Jan 4, 2017 · 19,959 points · 473 comments · image
  3. Got my 300 pound self up the wallu/DREWNSRLU · Feb 16, 2019 · 15,625 points · 449 comments · image
  4. My sister's only exception in using a selfie stick.u/Jaffz · May 1, 2017 · 12,125 points · 267 comments · image
  5. Got bored and photoshopped out climbers from boulders... Praise Be To The Stoneu/Phat_Duck · Nov 3, 2017 · 10,973 points · 165 comments · link
  6. Giving retired rope a second life!u/LambertRopeArt · Jan 26, 2021 · image
  7. US National Parks WILL NOT be privatised! Well done everyone who opposed this!u/Bea_OProblem · Feb 2, 2017 · 8,534 points · 190 comments · image
  8. Ondra with the classic "toe-jam-knee-bar-bat-hang" moveu/no-thx · Oct 4, 2019 · 5,352 points · 228 comments · video
  9. Highball V0 with aid ladders. Doesn’t count.Jan 6, 2021 · image
  10. I think it's fair to assume that Honnold's days of free soloing are over. And I'm glad about that.u/Liocla · Feb 24, 2022 · 5,874 points · 383 comments · image

What r/climbing talks about

Looking at the titles of 18 recent posts (Nov 1–Nov 7), the words that come up most are “weekly”, “america”, “sport”, “v17” and “repeats”.

  • weekly 2
  • america 2
  • sport 2
  • v17 2
  • repeats 2
  • rock 2

Activity and best time to post

r/climbing gets about 2.5 new posts a day. The public archive holds 132,147 posts and 2,004,737 comments in total, about 15.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (5 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (0).

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Posts per hour of the day, UTC, Oct 31, 2026 – Nov 6, 2026

Rules of r/climbing

The moderators of r/climbing list 5 rules. In short:

  1. No questions outside of the weekly question thread
  2. Circlejerking
  3. Not climbing related
  4. low effort/low quality
  5. No indoor climbing or bouldering except covering competitions

How to join

Open reddit.com/r/climbing and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.

Frequently asked questions

How many members does r/climbing have?

r/climbing has 1,641,194 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #650 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 2,950 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.

How old is r/climbing?

r/climbing was created on Jul 17, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from May 9, 2009.

How active is r/climbing?

Moderately: r/climbing gets about 2.5 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 132,147 posts and 2,004,737 comments.

When is r/climbing most active?

Based on post counts from Oct 31, 2026 to Nov 6, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Sunday. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.

What is r/climbing about?

The community describes itself as: “The home of Climbing on reddit. And yes we are scared of falling.” Recent post titles often mention weekly, america, sport, v17 and repeats.

Is r/climbing safe for work?

Yes. Reddit does not mark r/climbing as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.

How do I post on r/climbing?

Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/climbing accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “No questions outside of the weekly question thread”; “Circlejerking”; “Not climbing related”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.

Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 9, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/climbing.

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