Modern climbers have the opposite problem. Go to any outdoor recreation store and prepare to be overwhelmed by shelves of cutting-edge climbing shoes and marketing gibberish. That’s how I felt ...

We take a look at the culture of tight climbing shoes. Just how tight is too tight - and ... Recent case studies have showed that even if cuts on the foot are tended to, and x-rays exclude any ...

First ascended by Ray Jardine and John Lakey in 1977 ... Climbing ropes, then carabiners were a major step, then climbing hardware, then Friends, then sticky shoes. They all paved the way to the first ...