One of my first times going bouldering outside, I thought I was hot stuff. I was finally doing V7s and V8s in my gym, so I was gonna crush on real rock, right? I spent 45 minutes (and all of my energy ...

While attending UC San Diego from 2015 to 2019, Christina Roh noticed that “the outdoors wasn’t seemingly as accessible to the AAPI community. A lot of Asian students didn’t seem as inclined to ...

A research team at the University of Bayreuth has experimentally investigated how the popular climbing discipline of bouldering affects vegetation and the surface structure of natural rock formations.

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Rock climbing is back in the limelight: In the past three years, nearly 100 new indoor climbing gyms have opened nationwide, participation in outdoor climbing has increased 20.3 percent, and 1,000 to ...

In 1991, a crusty climbing bum with a gap-toothed grin named John “Vermin” Sherman published the Hueco Tanks Climbing and Bouldering Guide, introducing his open-ended V scale for grading. As ...

Have you ever been interested in rock climbing? Join the Woodbridge Main Library, May 9 at 7PM, to get an introduction to outdoor rock climbing! President/Owner of Northeast Mountain Guiding Joey ...

Since 1974 Outdoor Action—the University’s outdoor education program—has become a unique resource at Princeton for thousands of students. For many students, Outdoor Action is their first experience ...

Last weekend, 450 of the world’s best rock climbers convened in the outskirts of Moscow at the CSKA Sports Complex for the second stop on the International Federation of Sport Climbing’s (IFSC) World ...

Rough, calloused hands may be seen as a badge of honor by some climbers, but not everyone wants their skin to feel like sandpaper. If you are one of these people, you may want to consider getting a ...