If you are a beginner climber and you feel like you have to learn another language to get on board, you are not alone.

One of the most important safety procedures that one can do before climbing is tying into the rope and anchor system properly. The knot that is most commonly used for tying into a harness is the ...

Rock climbers mobilized against a move to restrict the fixed anchors they often leave behind in wilderness areas.

Self-locking devices are pieces of rock-climbing equipment intended to arrest the fall of solo climbers who climb without partners. This device is used for rope solo climbing, for "ground-up climbing" ...

Italian hitch belays: using a sling and Italian hitch is a quick belay method. Make sure you know how to safely pay out and take in the rope. Indirect belays: the typical rock climbing belay; anchor ...

Is driving a race car at 170 mph on Daytona speedway more risky than driving an SUV on the highway at half that speed? Not ...

The fill inside this puffy, called LOOPINSULATION, is made from scraps of recycled climbing ... climber or winter rock climber, I wouldn’t hesitate to make this jacket my belay jacket.

Starting out climbing with a single rope is the best way to learn how to manage ... Allows the rope to be stowed in a manner that eliminates tangles with the rock and the rope itself, while not ...

Our program offers one to two-day clinics on technical skills and movement technique for many levels of experience as well as quarter-long classes, which can be taken for college credit. Explore rock ...

The controversy surrounding permanent bolts goes back decades, and is chronicled in the film Valley Uprising, which tells the ...