Josh Larson was about 14 years old when he went to a carnival and decided to give the climbing wall a whirl. It was nothing major—about 25 feet, he recalls—but the instructor was impressed and made a ...

Owners of the Climbing Collective gym in Longmont, one of Colorado’s foremost climbing facilities, are hopeful they can ...

As rock climbers, we ask a lot of our climbing pants. We want them to protect our legs from the elements on bad weather days, sharp vegetation on bushwhack approaches, and coarse rock when it’s time ...

The first time I went to a rock climbing gym as an adult, I felt like a visitor from another planet. As I watched the instructor—who was teaching me and a group of other fitness editors proper rope ...

Competitive climbing has grown in Latin America, especially after becoming an Olympic sport in 2020. Colombia, a prime ...

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“Climbing can be a positive addition to places all around the world,” says climber Sasha DiGuilian. “It’s the responsibility of all of us to treat these places with patience, compassion, and respect.” ...

If you were leafing through climbing magazines in the 90’s and early aughts you might have thought that helmets weren’t a thing in climbing. The epic photos of climbers posing on the side of cliffs ...

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The muscles in your hips and torso strain to hold your lower half against the wall. You arch backward and extend one hand up to clasp the next hold—your thighs and calves burning with the effort of ...