Best New Climbing Gear: Highlights from Summer 2017 Outdoor Retailer Show
Looking for beta on the newest climbing gear being introduced at the 2017 Summer Outdoor Retailer Show in Salt Lake City, Utah? Here's a look at some of the most noteworthy gear innovations coming soon to the climbing world. Make sure to check back throughout the rest...
Best Upper Body Exercises for Climbing with Audrey Sniezek
Eager to build strength for climbing, but find yourself at odds with what to do in the weight room? In this video, climber Audrey Sniezek demonstrates several upper body exercises specific to climbing, which will not only help you develop pulling power, but also...
Don’t Forget Your Humility — Lessons Learned on Denali
What to bring to a Denali expedition? Bring humility. Bring lots of it. Every drop you have gathered in your lifetime will be beneficial on Denali. Being the overconfident, sometimes arrogant, and mainly very lucky person I am, I signed up for a Denali...
Gear You Ought to Know: Review of Tension Wooden Hangboards
There's a chance you've experienced this too: training indoors throughout the week, only to find your skin wrecked by the time you finally get outdoors for the weekend. But not so fast: comfort and training—an oxymoron by most accounts—might just be the way of the...
A Video Guide to Everything You Need to Know About Building Climbing Anchors
Use this guide as a general overview. Remember, learning about rock climbing online serves as a tool, but in no way are videos or written articles a substitute for hands-on instruction. Failure to follow appropriate safety measures could result in serious injury or...
Build Chronicle: Converting a 2012 Mercedes Sprinter Van
Where did you find and purchase this van? What’s the backstory? When we decided to convert a van into a camper van we were living in central London. However, we bought the van in Germany to have a left-side drive van, which is better for traveling on roads outside of...
Essay: Why I Don’t Free Solo Climb
Another day, another dollar. My boss tells me I can leave work an hour early. I am stoked. The air is dry, crisp, the day’s heat is gone, the rock is warm but not condensed, and best of yet, the crag is about to be empty. The evening is perfect for an...
Commit to Your Fellow Climbers — Sign The Climber’s Pact
Are you willing to stand up for our climbing areas? As climbers, we rely heavily on the health and accessibility of our landscapes to pursue the activity we love most. Unfortunately, the growing popularity of our sport has resulted in a gradual degradation of the...
A Climber’s Take on the WristWidget
Back in October 2015, a group of climbing buddies and I were training hard. We were following one of the training programs in The Rock Climber’s Training Manual, which called for lots of hangboarding. Towards the end of the program, I developed a slight pain in the...
3 Friction Hitches Every Climber Should Know — How to Use and Tie an Auto-Block, Prusik, and Klemheist
Use this guide as a general overview. Remember, learning about rock climbing online serves as a tool, but in no way are videos or written articles a substitute for hands-on instruction. Failure to follow appropriate safety measures could result in serious injury or...
Free: Big Wall Climbing in Yosemite
This week's Friday Flick Pick joins Jorg Verhoeven and Katha Saurwein on their intrepid big wall free climbing journeys to climb the Dihedral Wall (5.14a/8b+) and Final Frontier (5.13b/8a) in Yosemite Valley, CA—a place that many in our community consider the center...
‘Barefoot Charles’ Sends V15/8C—Yes, Barefoot
Not one to boast, French climber Charles Albert didn't waste his breath on the announcement: "Yo, I did monkey wedding (8c) last week, I'll upload the video later." Located in South Africa's bouldering mecca, Rocklands, Monkey Wedding was originally established by the...
Modern Redpointing eBook: Alternative Strategies to Improve Your Performance on the Rock
While most climbing performance books focus on external improvement (through training, nutrition, etc.) Modern Redpointing takes an inward dive. The strategies presented are designed to improve your climbing outside of simply spending more time on the...
Efficient Campus Board Training with Adam Ondra
Adam Ondra touts the campus board as one of the most effective training tools for climbers; however, he also cautions its high risk for causing finger injury. He intently discourages use of the campus board for beginner climbers; noting that if you gain power too...
Essay: New Conquerors of The Useless — The Role Of Achieving Nothing in a World Obsessed with Doing Everything
Once while waiting for an exceptionally late bus in Uganda a guy from Kansas turned to me, with the surreptitious depravity exclusive to those who consider themselves of a superior fraternity, and said, “I guess it’s true what they say ... Americans get more done by...
Top 9 Best Rock Climbing Shoes 2017
Use this buying guide to explore top climbing shoes for bouldering, sport, and trad. Price comparisons will help you score the best deal.
Slow Moments from Vail’s 2017 Bouldering World Cup
It can be hard to wrap your brain around the movements that competition climbers are able to pull off, but this week's Friday Flick Pick helps to hone in our understanding of the precision, power, and focus required to pull off these challenging moves. Brought to you...
Climbing Destination Guide: Maple Canyon, Utah
Maple Canyon is located in the Manti-La Sal National Forest around two hours south of Salt Lake City, Utah. There is a single dirt road that leads you into the canyon from which you can access all the climbing the area has to offer. Primitive camping,...
Bouldering as a Training Tool — Tips from Adam Ondra
In this video, prodigal all-around climber, Adam Ondra sheds light on why bouldering is an invaluable tool for your training, no matter what style of climber you consider yourself. In my opinion you have to train a lot of bouldering, even if you're a sport climber....
The Last Honey Hunter: Behind the Scenes with Renan Ozturk & Mark Synnott in Nepal
This is not your usual "climbing" film; in fact, it's hardly about climbing at all ... at least in our everyday understanding of the term. This week's Friday Flick Pick follows Renan Ozturk and Mark Synnott deep into the Nepalese jungle, where they document a lesser...
Essay: The Adolescent Identity Crisis of the #Vanlife Movement
Is the #vanlife cracked up to what it should be? As a recovering #vanlife guy, I am glad to be done, in the current flux, with this viral movement in its adolescence. While I think the things one learns from living in a van or tiny vehicular space are...
