When it comes to choosing climbing shoes, it’s not a decision you want to get wrong. A well-chosen shoe is your ally on the wall – a protective and grippy extension of your own foot that enables you ...

As the gear-review manager, I own over 50 pairs of climbing shoes. And that's lowballing. I'm trying on new shoes almost every week. My feet hate me. First World problem? You betcha. Forget all you ...

The style choice of not wearing socks—or going “commando,” raw doggin’ it, etc.—in rock shoes is, like the jellyfish haircut, a recent phenomenon. When I started climbing in 1973, almost everyone wore ...

Including climbing shoes, technical equipment, and durable clothing. Rock climbing has been around for centuries. In the sport’s early days, athletes wore boots and carried natural fiber ropes that ...

Despite knowing better, most climbers wear shoes two sizes too small. Athos, a Barcelona-based company, is hoping to change that with the world's first 3D-printed climbing shoes, promising a bespoke ...

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Planetmountain.com is a site about climbing, mountaineering, trekking, via ferrata, freeriding, ski mountaineering, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and ice climbing on all the mountains of the world. It ...

I have a good friend in Colorado who I am going to go see next month. She is an avid climber and has said that I should bring climbing shoes (she said she could find a harness/other gear for ...

There’s a point in pushing physical and mental limits when most people call it quits. This usually occurs between the phrases “This is no fun” and “I feel like I’m physically dying.” It’s that line ...

Put on your climbing shoes for an extraordinary competition, open to all regular climbers, on November 15, 2025, at the ...