That limit is what separates legendary rock climber Tommy Caldwell ... “Boulder is the center of climbing commerce, training innovations and motivation. It seems like, as a climber, the closer ...

“He said, ‘If you climb this other route, which is the hardest one, we’ll give you a harness, and you can go back home and find a climbing gym.’” Larson is now an elite rock climbe ...

flexibility (which you can improve with yoga for rock climbing), motivation, experience and whether or not where you usually climb best suits your morphology and style. “Climbing is a very ...

Rock climbing offers a way to relive those childhood moments while getting an incredible full-body workout. Read on to learn what makes rock climbing a workout, the potential health benefits ...

Justin Salas took up rock climbing after becoming legally blind, and says the sport has taught him to be brave and find ways to adapt. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 2, 2023.

“The fact that they decided to keep some of the bedrock exposed instead of blasting them was the reason I got into rock climbing,” Shiraishi, now 22, says of Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s ...

Up, up, up the 30-foot rock wall at the rock-climbing venue in Island Rock in Plainview went Sara Glasser, reaching about the halfway point before allowing the strong ropes to bring her back to ...

Yosemite National Park has made permanent a divisive overnight rock climbing permitting system aimed at protecting wilderness and monitoring visitors as the sport has grown rapidly in popularity.

Climbing organizations are working to improve access across Pennsylvania and offer advice to those who want to give the sport a try. Two of them, the Southwestern Pennsylvania Climbers Coalition ...

The small country in southeastern Africa is leveraging its little-known rock cliffs and boulders to develop local interest in climbing — and to draw adventure tourists. By Michael Levy Fifty ...

Renewed Strength Fitness owner Levi Kirk said, "there's no rock-climbing place here, so we figured, why not, you know, add this to everything else." The facility has many different exercise ...