Climbing shoes may get all the air time, but unless you’re in the ranks of soloists like Peter Croft, Alex Honnold and Marc-André Leclerc, you’re going to need one of the best climbing harnesses. This ...

I’ve done a lot of climbing in recent video games, from Horizon Forbidden West to the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves collection, and although both of those have stronger characters and significantly ...

TOKYO — The hands make all the difference. Small tendons in the fingers must be strengthened and thickened over the course of years, all the better to dangle from a narrow ledge. Nails must be clipped ...

One of the most important components of rock climbing is the ability to grip small nubs and hang from micro-thin edges. Climber and coach Luke Livesey shares some tips for developing fingers of steel.

I recently watched Free Solo, the great movie about rock climber Alex Honnold’s free solo (no aids, no ropes, no protection at all) climb of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Among many other ...

In the eighties, nineties, and much of the early aughts, rock climbing gyms were little more than training grounds where climbers honed their skills in preparation for objectives on real rock. But ...

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