China

China offers a vast and rapidly expanding climbing landscape, ranging from the towering limestone archways and karst towers of Yangshuo to the high-altitude granite of Sichuan and the burgeoning bouldering circuits near Beijing. The climbing style is heavily defined by steep, pockets-laden limestone in the south and durable, splitter-cracked granite in the alpine interior. Development varies widely from heavily bolted sport crags with modern infrastructure to remote, exploratory trad routes in mountainous regions bordering the Himalayas.