If you're not already frequenting your local climbing gym and bragging about how you can send a 5.10, it's only a matter of time. Climbing has seen a major surge in popularity with the emergence of ...

Gravity Lab explains beginner climbing habits that affect movement, positioning and efficiency. The video covers foot use, breathing and route approach as ways to improve without relying only on ...

The difficulty of having to judge for yourselfI have heard comments, questions, and expressions of anxiety from many people, ...

Among my friends, I’m the de facto outdoor-gear guy. And for years, they’ve consulted me for climbing-gear recommendations, especially if they’re new to the sport and have no idea where to start. I’ve ...

My husband and I just celebrated our 11-year anniversary in August. Since spending time together is really the only gift we both wanted, I surprised him, booked a babysitter, and signed us up for an ...

shoes, and ten of each size of those gadgets that climbers stuff into cracks, how does a novice decide what to buy? Here’s a primer, designed to help an aspirant wade through today’s jungle of gear ...

Had I known them, I would have enjoyed climbing earlier, and I would have climbed harder faster. Well, it does matter, but not in the way you think. Your climbing only matters because it matters to ...

If it’s a low mountain, sneakers and a plastic bottle should be fine.”Before I started mountain climbing, that’s how I ...

I am a self-taught climber. When I first tied in, sometime in the early 1970s, my buddy Donnie and I were on our own. There was no one to figuratively and literally show us the ropes. We looked at ...

If you’re just getting into rock climbing, it can be tempting to buy the coolest, flashiest gear, but finding the best beginner climbing shoes is actually pretty simple. They should feel relatively ...

We spend decades getting good at things. But what might we be missing by avoiding the things we're terrible at? A few lessons ...

What started as an ordinary beginner climbing course quickly became a social experiment when professional climber Magnus Midtbø disguised himself as a nervous newcomer from Finland. Armed with a fake ...