← All communities
Reddit community

r/climbing

1.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 6K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.6Mmembers
6Kbest post
528most comments
300posts we track

Open r/climbing on Reddit ↗

What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 18% 16% 16% 14%
Video 37% Gallery 18% Text 16% Link 16% Image 14%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Near death experience on the RNWF of Half Dome: in search of hikers who nearly murdered us

↑ 6K 💬 230 image 2026

[Video] Janja Garnbret is the first woman ever to climb Bibliographie (9b+)

↑ 3.6K 💬 196 video 2026

British pro climber Shauna Coxsey needed only two attempts to climb Olympiad, an 8b route above the sea in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK. Coxsey became th…

↑ 3.3K 💬 119 video 2026

[Long Video] Janja sending Bibliographie (9b+) 😌 (June 6, 2026)

↑ 2.5K 💬 206 video 2026

Janja Garnbret Wins 50th World Cup Gold Medal

↑ 2.3K 💬 126 video 2026

Janja sends Bibliographie

↑ 2.2K 💬 143 link 2026

Missed Connection: You were climbing Cathedral Peak on Saturday Sept 26th 2026.

↑ 2.1K 💬 176 image 2026

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

↑ 1.8K 💬 103 link 2026

Clips of Alex Honnold's free solo of El Capitan (3000', 5.13a) that were not seen in the doc.

↑ 1.6K 💬 193 video 2026

First time climbing in New England

↑ 1.5K 💬 74 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/climbing, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/climbing have?
r/climbing has about 1.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 6K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/climbing?
"Near death experience on the RNWF of Half Dome: in search of hikers who nearly murdered us" reached 6K upvotes and 230 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/climbing.
What subreddits are similar to r/climbing?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing.
What kind of posts do best on r/climbing?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are video posts and 18% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/climbing?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 14:00 UTC (1.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 04:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/climbing?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/climbing has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 68 posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/climbing, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.