Are You Ready To Start Hangboarding?
Hangboards are a useful tool for improving finger strength, but when used incorrectly they can cause injuries. Here's what you need to know before you start up a hangboarding practice.
Hangboards are a useful tool for improving finger strength, but when used incorrectly they can cause injuries. Here's what you need to know before you start up a hangboarding practice.
Colorado climbers gathered in this limestone paradise for some fantastic climbing.
Ed note: If you want to climb harder, and for that matter, live a healthy life, take none of the following advice. Also, if you don’t have a sense of humor, read no further. Climbing used to be easy.
Unless you’re part of a search and rescue team, you don’t head out for the day expecting to be thrust into a life-or-death situation. Heroism, like the accidents and epics that might prompt it, is something you can’t plan for.
The Gaia GPS map of the best approach to Hillbilly Rock, Flatirons, Colorado. Unless your crag is roadside (looking at you, Rifle Mountain Park and Potash Road), you’re going to need to hike in. What typically happens with a new crag is...
Women With Altitude - Joint Exhibition to Highlight Female Alpinists of the Last 100 Years
For the 30th time, I grabbed the crux holds on Picos Pardos, an 8b/8b+ (5.13d/14a) in Oliana, Spain. It had become my three-week project. My left hand grabbed the small, polished pinch, and I threw hard out right to latch the tufa, and fell.
15 minutes to strong shoulders, a stable core, and fewer injuries
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A young man has passed away following a 43-foot fall off an autobelay-equipped route at Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym in St. Peters, Sydney, Australia. The victim’s identity has not yet been made public...
Charles Dubouloz and Benjamin Védrines completed the first ascent of In the Shadow of Lies (WI5+ M5+ 90° ED) on the Himalayan peak.
Head Rush Technologies has launched the iQ Series—and it's destined to change indoor climbing as we know it.
Parents love their kids and will do anything for them, including taking them climbing when they don't have a clue.
Because good friction and warm weather have very little in common.
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How far are you willing to go for the “full experience”? For Adrian Montano, who had long coveted an ascent of Golden Beaver Left (5.13b), it meant skipping as many clips as possible on the partially bolted line, accepting a healthy runout at the top (for the crux moves) and risking a long fall.