after stretching on our painfully tight rock shoes, we rope up and begin ascending the 1,500-foot route like monkeys, hand jamming up cracks, squeezing through chimneys, climbing face holds as if ...

Grip strength is critical in rock climbing, enabling climbers to hang onto small edges and slopers. Hangboards or grip ...

Climbing shoes and harnesses are available for usage at no charge through Equipment Issuance. The UD Rock Wall is a custom A.R.T. Wall by Nicros that is designed to look like a real rock face. The ...

a type of climbing that uses rope, fixed bolts, pitons or foot slings to ascend the face instead of solely relying on the ...

Alumni who used North Allegheny’s rock climbing wall can relive some memories at an open house from 6 to 9 p.m. April 9 at Newman Stadium on the high school campus in McCandless. The wall, built in ...

Now, it gets a little more complicated... Trad (traditional) climbing is where the first climber (the 'lead') places their own protection on their way up the rock face and their partner (the 'second') ...

Rock climber Alex Honnold has pulled off some of the most impressive climbing performances in the world. Here are the best climbs of his career. “There’s just so much climbing history in ...

In winter the rock is grippier, making it easier for shoes to stick on edges and fingertips to stay put on face holds ... Perhaps the biggest advantage to climbing this time of year, beside ...

The sectors face all directions which means climbing is possible all ... We highly recommend you buy the guidebook "Yangshuo, Rock Climbing" by Paul Collis, one of the most active new routers in the ...