Talent Development Environments (TDEs, Martindale et al., 2005) ‘aim to provide the appropriate conditions for young athletes to realise their full sporting potential’ (Sargent Megicks et al., 2022, p. 2533). If successful, TDEs play a crucial role in the establishment of athletic performance (Martindale et al. 2010; Henriksen & Stambulova, 2019; Henriksen & Stambulova, 2023; Taylor, MacNamara, & Taylor, 2022) and are integral to the longer-term aims associated with high performance (Abbott and Collins, 2004; Collins, MacNamara, and McCarthy, 2016). Martindale, Collins & Abrahams (2007, p. 188) note that while coaching and other factors (e.g., parents) influence athletes, ‘the TDE is certainly the most consistent and immediately controllable factor in the life of a developing elite. The significance of TDEs is borne out in studies across sporting domains (e.g., Baker, Cobley, Schorer & Wattie, 2019), national boundaries (e.g., Röger, Rütten, Heiko and Hill, 2016) and multiple levels of competition sport (e.g., SargeMegicks et al., 2022). Despite the recognised significance of TDEs, however, there has been a scarcity of research in English in relation to Sport Climbing, a sport of increasing popularity having completed its second Olympic cycle. With the exception of research in Japan that is mostly untranslated, the sport’s swift evolution means that competition climbing is largely unstudied, with previous research tending to focus on physiological measurements and abilities of climbers (i.e. Puletic and Stankovic, 2014; Anderson, 2018; Winkler et al., 2022). Despite the fact that Sport Climbing athletes tend to come through youth pathways, and, indeed, that many athletes competing at Senior World Cups are youth climbers, there has been no exploration of their TDEs. Consequently, this study explores the needs and experiences of athletes, coaches, and parents across international talent pathways in elite-level Sport Climbing.