Paradox Sports

10/09/2026

This winter 2027 Paradox Sports celebrates two decades of breaking barriers in the climbing world! 🗺️ ⛏️Celebrate with this winter for their 20th Anniversary and the 20th Annual Paradox Sports X Ouray Ice Park Weekend! 🥶🎉We’re gearing up for an unforgettable winter of adaptive climbing and community. Blending history with high-altitude adventure🏔️ Dates: February 19th-21st 2027—registration opens soon, stay tuned to be part of the milestone!


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10/07/2026

Climb in costume. Climb with friends. Climb for Paradox. 🎃

The Paradox Halloween Climb-a-thon is Oct. 30–31, and it’s free to sign up. Set your own goal, join a Boulder-Golden area climbing event, or log your climbs from anywhere, and help raise $50,000 for adaptive climbing.

Your goal doesn’t have to be dramatic — climb for a half-day, full day, or both days. Costumes encouraged!

Sign up today, and we’ll help you share your goal with your community:

Join me in supporting Paradox Sports: https://go.rallyup.com/paradoxhalloween

10/06/2026

Adaptive climbing changes what people believe is possible. This month, you can help make more of those moments happen.

Sign up for free, set your own climbing goal, and help Paradox reach 50,000 feet climbed and $50,000 raised for adaptive climbing. You can join group climbing events in the Boulder-Golden area or log your climbs from anywhere.

Grab your harness, shoes, best costume, share your goal with your community, and create some spooky good fun. Every route counts!

Sign up for free. Set your own goal: https://go.rallyup.com/paradoxhalloween

10/01/2026

Our work in Ukraine continues.

After this summer’s adaptive climbing training with Ukrainian veterans with disabilities and instructors, we’re committed to providing additional training and specialized climbing equipment to our partners in Ukraine. Together, we’re helping build opportunities for climbing, connection, and community.

Thank you to Chris Weidner and the Daily Camera for highlighting this work. Read the story:

Alex Kosseff expected Ukraine to look like a country at war. What surprised him were the bustling restaurants, the people going out to bars — it all seemed so normal. He and three others at Paradox Sports traveled to Ukraine in early August…

09/17/2026

🎃 The Paradox Halloween Climb-a-thon is officially happening October 30–31, and we’d love for you to be part of it.

This peer-to-peer fundraising challenge is built around a simple idea: climb what you can, set a goal that works for you, and invite your friends, family, coworkers, and community to support your effort.

Together, our goals are to:

🧗 Climb 50,000 vertical feet
💰 Raise $50,000 for Paradox Sports

You can participate as an individual or as part of a team. You can join Paradox-hosted climbing sessions in the Boulder-Golden area, climb independently and log your feet on the honor system, or do both. We’ll host group climbing opportunities during the day on Friday, October 30 and Saturday, October 31, outside if weather permits, plus an evening gym climbing event on Halloween night.

There is no fee to register. We suggest a base fundraising goal of $250 for individuals and $500 for teams, but the most important thing is to sign up, participate, and help bring more people into the Paradox community.

And because it’s Halloween, costumes are encouraged — just make sure you can climb safely in whatever heroic, haunted, or hilarious outfit you choose.

We’ll have individual and team prizes for:

🏆 Most money raised
🏆 Most vertical feet climbed
🏆 Best costume

You do **not** need to climb a mile, crush hard routes, or set a huge goal to participate. Every route counts. Every fundraiser matters.

Please sign up, start a team, join a team, make a pledge, or donate today:

https://go.rallyup.com/paradoxhalloween

Let’s climb **50,000 feet**, raise **$50,000**, and make Halloween a celebration of everything this community can do.

08/18/2026

Paradox’s adaptive climbing training in Ukraine was a success. We’re proud of our team, the work they did, and the trust our Ukrainian partners placed in us. But first and foremost, we’re overwhelmed by the warmth of the Ukrainian people and the kindness and support our training group showed to one another.

The people we worked with have faced constant war since 2022. Air raid sirens that have become background noise. Horrors witnessed, homes gone, limbs lost, loved ones dead, refugees in their own country—but they came together for climbing. And to learn how to build community by sharing climbing with veterans with disabilities.

The adaptive climbing approaches that Paradox has pioneered in North America over the past two decades hold tremendous value for Ukraine’s veteran community. Faced with tens of thousands of veterans with disabilities and limited resources, traditional models of rehabilitation and reintegration are inadequate. Given the supportive community of veterans and climbers we encountered, we’re optimistic that a robust adaptive climbing community can be a part of the solution.

Learn more about what we’re doing in Ukraine and how you can help by following the link. Your support will help us continue this work in Ukraine and share this story.

https://www.paradoxsports.org/ukraine-adaptive-climbing-initiative/

Razom for Ukraine Petzl The North Face

Photos 1,3 - Tristan Blommer, https://www.tristanblommer.com/, https://www.instagram.com/tblom.photo/
Photos 2,4,5 - Anastasiia Kubert, https://www.instagram.com/kubert_photo/

08/03/2026

Our Ukraine training has begun. Five days and, via the instructors we are training, an opportunity to positively impact hundreds or thousands of veterans with disabilities.

Ukrainians are, by necessity, innovative. They’re clearly ready to take the skills and information we’re sharing and have a positive impact on their huge community of veterans with disabilities.

We got the call to come to Ukraine and said “yes.” But when our team boarded their flight, we were still counting on you to make this work. Paradox can’t do this work if it draws funds and resources from our U.S. programs. Please consider a small donation to power this program and enable ongoing work supporting veterans in Ukraine.

Visit https://www.paradoxsports.org/ukraine-adaptive-climbing-initiative/ for more information. Follow us in Instagram for the latest updates: https://www.instagram.com/paradoxsports/

Follow along over the next four days while our team is in Ukraine! Let us know if you have questions!

Razom for Ukraine The North Face Petzl

08/02/2026

This is a tiny section of the memorial to local soldiers lost in the small Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk.

We can’t help those who have been lost, but we can help the tens of thousands veterans returning home with disabilities.

Paradox’s small team is currently in Ukraine to help launch a national adaptive climbing program. With your partners in the country we we are building opportunities for rehabilitation and community.

Because we felt the need is so great, we headed to Ukraine before we even had the funds in place to fully support this project. Your support would mean we can finish out this initial project and continue to support veterans with disabilities in Ukraine.

Please follow along for the next 5 days to learn more about what we’re doing in Ukraine. You can learn more at the link in our bio or at paradoxsports.org.

07/24/2026

At least 100,000 amputees.

That is the current estimate for Ukraine from the Superhumans Center, as recently reported by The New York Times. Behind that number are people rebuilding strength, identity, relationships, and daily life while Russia’s war continues.

Medical care, prosthetics, and rehabilitation are essential. So are places where someone can be a climber, teammate, and leader—not only a patient.

Climbing cannot undo what happened. It can create challenge, trust, problem-solving, and community. That is why this work matters now.

Please share this post to help more people understand the role adaptive sports can play. Learn more: https://www.paradoxsports.org/ukraine-adaptive-climbing-initiative/



Images: https://war.ukraine.ua/imagebank/, Stacey Chen, Paradox collection

07/22/2026

We’re going to Ukraine to help launch an adaptive climbing program. The goal: Make sure they can keep it going without us.

From August 2–6, Paradox will work alongside Ukrainian climbers in Ivano-Frankivsk and Kamianets-Podilskyi, training roughly 20 instructors and climbing with roughly 20 Veterans with disabilities.

We’ll share adaptive systems, disability awareness, risk management, and program-building tools developed over nearly 20 years. Ukrainian climbers and Veterans will shape them for their communities and carry the work forward.

Five days is the starting hold, not the summit.

Learn more and support the Ukraine Adaptive Climbing Initiative here https://www.paradoxsports.org/ukraine-adaptive-climbing-initiative/

With Razom for Ukraine Petzl The North Face